Interpretive Social Science: An Anti-Naturalist Approach

by Jason Blakely and Mark Bevir

Book Overview

In this book Mark Bevir and Jason Blakely set out to make the most comprehensive case yet for an 'interpretive' or hermeneutic approach to the social sciences. Interpretive approaches are a major growth area in the social sciences today. This is because they offer a full-blown alternative to the behavioralism, institutionalism, rational choice, and other quasi-scientific approaches that dominate the study of human behavior. In addition to presenting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198832958
• ISBN13: 9780198832959
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"