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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• LUKES, STEVEN

Titel

Deflation and Construction: Rendering Social Causes Meaningful

Ist Teil von

• Sociologický časopis, 2015-01, Vol.51 (3), p.518-523

Ort / Verlag

Prague: Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

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Quelle

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In commenting upon Isaac Ariail Reed's interesting book, the author shall first indicate what seems to him especially valuable in its approach and style of argument. Second, he sets out what he takes to be the gist of that argument. And third, he shall pose two questions that that argument raises. Reed's book revisits, in a fresh and insightful way, the old question of the relations between the natural and social, or human, sciences. Reed makes no distinction between the human and the social (thereby embracing psychology as social) and he does not discuss what might be special to particular disciplines. More specifically, within the social sciences he criticizes what he calls 'realism' for presuming that their goal is to 'reveal underlying layers of social life', 'underlying mechanisms or structures' that are taken to exist 'in all sorts of times and places', and that bring together disparate cases under the same general scheme.