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Paperback New Rules of Sociological Method: Second Edition Book

ISBN: 0804722269

ISBN13: 9780804722261

New Rules of Sociological Method: Second Edition

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This is a new and revised edition of a book which has established itself as a basic text in social theory. The first section of the work provides a concise critical analysis of some leading schools of thought in social philosophy, giving particular attention to phenomenology, ethnomethodology, and Wittgensteinian thought. Giddens concentrates primarily upon the implications of these various perspectives for an account of human action and its intelligibility...

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Major review and critique of microsociological approaches

Giddens is not particularly well-known for being an *original* thinker. Instead, his great strength, as many note, is his unparalleled ability to summarize and contextualize the work of other sociologists and social thinkers. The "New Rules" is a great review of the major mid-late twentieth century approaches to microsociology: phenomenology, ethnomethodology, and Wittgensteinian approaches. What these three approaches have in common is a concern with meaning, agency, and interpretation; taken together they represent a major challenge to the previously dominant structural-functionalist and deterministic approaches to sociology. For those in the know, this is one of Giddens' first attempts at fleshing out his "structuration" theory, attempting to strike a balance between the structural and interpretative approaches. Read this book instead for a quick (and not overly difficult) review of the dominant interpretative theories in twentieth century sociology.
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