Methods of Interpretive Sociology

VOLUME 1 SECTION ONE: THE CLASSICAL STATEMENTS AND AUTHORS The Rise of Hermeneutics - Wilhelm Dilthey and Frederic Jameson Translator's Introduction to Max Weber's Essay on Some Categories of Interpretive Sociology - Edith Graber Some Categories of Interpretive Sociology - Max Weber "Anticritical Last Word on The Spirit of Capitalism," by Max Weber - Wallace Davis "Capitalism" in Recent German Literature: Sombart and Weber - Talcott Parsons "Capitalism" in Recent German Literature: Sombart and Weber (concluded) - Talcott Parsons The Role of Ideas in Social Action - Talcott Parsons The Problem of Sociology - Georg Simmel The Sociology of Sociability - Georg Simmel and Everett C. Hughes The Verstehen Thesis and the Foundations of Max Weber's Methodology, History and Theory - Guy Oakes Rickert's Value Theory and the Foundations of Max Weber's Methodology - Guy Oakes SECTION TWO: THE INTERPRETERS AND CHALLENGERS OF THE CLASSIC INTERPRETIVIST IDEA OF VERSTEHEN The Operation Called Vershehen - Theodore Abel On the Method of Verstehen as the Sole Method of Philosophy - Ernest Nagel Empirical Science and Max Weber's Verstehende Soziologie - Peter Munch Max Weber's" Verstehen" - William T. Tucker Verstehen I and Verstehen II, Theory and Decision - Theodore Abel "Sense" and "Intention" in Max Weber's Theory of Social Action - Peter Munch Weber on Action - Stephen P. Turner Max Weber's 'Interpretive Sociology': A comparison of conception and practice - Mary Fulbrook Value-Relevance, Scientific Laws, and Ideal Types: The sociological methodology of Max Weber - John Rex Max Weber on Causal Analysis, Interpretation, and Comparison - Fritz Ringer Max Weber's Interpretive Sociology, the Understanding of Actions and Motives, and a Weberian View of Man - Thomas Burger Max Weber, Interpretive Sociology, and the Sense of Historical Science: A Positivistic Conception of Verstehen - Thomas Burder Causality or Interaction? Simmel, Weber and Interpretive Sociology - K Lichtblau Weber's Interpretive Sociology and Rational Choice Approach - Zenonas Norkus Weber's Verstehen and the History of Qualitative Research: The missing link - Jennifer Platt Weber and Interpretive Sociology in America - Peter Kivisto and William H. Swatos Jr VOLUME 2 SECTION THREE: THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL CRITICS The Stranger: An Essay in Social Psychology - Alfred Schutz Common-sense and Scientific Interpretation of Human Action - Alfred Schutz Schutz Choosing Among Projects of Action - Alfred Schutz Concept and Theory Formation in the Social Sciences - Alfred Schutz On Phenomenological Sociology - James L. Heap and Phillip A. Roth Can There Be a Phenomenological Sociology? - Edo Pivcevic Alfred Schutz and the Austrian School of Economics - Christopher Prendergast The Rationality of Everyday Behaviour: A rational choice reconstruction of the theory of action by Alfred Schutz - Hartmut Esser Rationality, Optimality and Choice: Esser's reconstruction of Alfred Schutz's theory of action - Christopher Prendergast Spontaneous Social Order: Econmics and Sch tzian sociology - Nicolai Juul Foss Alfred Schutz on a Theory of Motivation - Andrew J. Weigert From Weber to Parsons and Schutz: The eclipse of history in modern social theory - David Zaret Existential Phenomenology and the Sociological Tradition - Edward Tiryakian Jiri Kolaja and Peter Berger Respond to Edward Tiryakian and he Responds Back - Jiri Kolaja and Peter Berger SECTION FOUR: THE CRITICAL PHENOMENOLOGISTS The Relation between Psychology and Sociology in the Work of Wilhelm Dilthey - Max Horkheimer Existentialism: Remarks on Jean-Paul Sartre's L'Etre et le Neant - Herbert Marcuse Towards a Reconstruction of Historical Materialism - Jurgen Habermas Some Distinctions in Universal Pragmatics - Jurgen Habermas The A Priori of Communication and the Foundation of the Humanities - Karlo Otto Apel Dilthey's Distinction Between "Explanation" and "Understanding" and the Possibility of Its "Mediation" - Karl Otto Apel The Hermeneutic Dimension of Social Science and its Normative Foundation - Karl Otto Apel New Developments in Phenomenology in France: The phenomenology of language - Paul Ricoeur Towards Actionist Sociology, Social Science Information - Alain Touraine The Voice and the Eye: On the relationship between actors and analysts - Alain Touraine Rationality in the Slum: An essay on interpretive sociology - Alejandro Portes Meeting or Mis-Meeting? The Dialogical Challenge to Verstehen - Rob Shields VOLUME 3 SECTION FIVE: SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM The Mechanism of Social Consciousness - George Herbert Mead The Social Self - George Herbert Mead Social Consciousness - Charles Horton Cooley The Roots of Social Knowledge - Charles Horton Cooley Science without Concepts - Herbert Blumer Attitudes and the Social Act - Herbert Blumer Sociological Analysis and the "Variable" - Herbert Blumer Sociological Implications of the Thought of George Herbert Mead - Herbert Blumer Becoming a Marihuana User - Howard Becker Whose Side Are We On - Howard Becker Symbols of Class Status - Erving Goffman The Moral Career of the Mental Patient, Psychiatry: Journal for the Study of Interpersonal Processes - Erving Goffman Major Trends in Symbolic Interaction Theory in the Last Twenty Five Years - Manfred Kuhn SECTION SIX: ETHNOMETHODOLOGY Conditions of Successful Degradation Ceremonies - Harold Garfinkel Studies of the Routine Grounds of Everyday Activities - Harold Garfinkel Evidence for Locally Produced, Naturally Accountable Phenomena of Order, Logic, Reason, Meaning, Method, etc - Harold Garfinkel Ethnomethodology's Program - Harold Garfinkel A Note on the Uses of Official Statistics - Aaron Cicourel and John Kitsuse The Role of Cognitive-Linguistic Concepts in Understanding Everyday Social Interactions - Aaron Cicourel Text and Discourse - Aaron Cicourel The Interpenetration of Communicative Contexts: Examples from medical encounters - Aaron Cicourel John Rawls on Two Concepts of Rules - Aaron Cicourel Symbolic Interactionism and Ethnomethodology: A proposed synthesis - Norman Denzin Verstehen, Language and Warrants - James L. Heap Writing as Social Action, Theory into Practice - James L. Heap Practical Reason in Depression: a Practice - James L. Heap VOLUME 4 SECTION SEVEN: CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGISTS "From the Native's Point of View": On the nature of anthropological understanding - Clifford Geertz Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese cockfight - Clifford Geertz Common Sense as a Cultural System - Clifford Geertz The Way We Think Now: Toward an ethnography of modern thought - Clifford Geertz Understanding a Primitive Society - Peter Winch Social Science - Peter Winch Rhetoric and the Ethnographic Genre in Anthropological Research - George Marcus Ethnographies as Texts - George Marcus and Dick Cushman On Ethnographic Authority - James Clifford Cultural Systems, and History: From Synchrony to Transformation - William H. Sewell SECTION EIGHT: CONTEMPORARY INTERPRETATIONS, EXTENSIONS, FUSIONS AND APPLICATIONS On Interpreting and Interpretation - N. Denzin Sociological Knowledge: Winch, Marxism, and Verstehen Revisited - Kai Nielsen Interpretivism and Generalisation - Malcolm Williams