Toward a Hermeneutic Theory of Social Practices

Toward a Hermeneutic Theory of Social Practices
Author: Dimitri Ginev
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2018-01-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351683985

Recent methodological debates have shown that practice theory can either be developed by combining and slightly extending established theoretical concepts of inter-subjectivity, social normativity, collective behavior, interaction between agents and environment, habits, learning, collective intentionality, and human agency; or by following a strategy that promotes the quest for completely autonomous concepts. In the latter case, one defends a thesis of irreducibility. Toward a Hermeneutic Theory of Social Practices advocates this thesis by approaching the interrelational dynamic of social practices in terms of existential analytic. Indeed, this insightful volume outlines a methodology of the double hermeneutics that allows the study of the entanglement of agential plans, beliefs, and intentions with configured practices; while also demonstrating how interrelated social practices with which agency is entangled articulate cultural forms of life. Suggesting a framework for studying the cultural forms of life within the scope of practice theory, this book will appeal to postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers interested in fields such as Social Theory, Philosophy of Social Science, and Research Methods for Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Toward a Hermeneutic Theory of Social Practices

Toward a Hermeneutic Theory of Social Practices
Author: Dimitri Ginev
Publisher: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2019-12-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9780367889210

Recent methodological debates have shown that practice theory can either be developed by combining and slightly extending established theoretical concepts of inter-subjectivity, social normativity, collective behavior, interaction between agents and environment, habits, learning, collective intentionality, and human agency; or by following a strategy that promotes the quest for completely autonomous concepts. In the latter case, one defends a thesis of irreducibility. Toward a Hermeneutic Theory of Social Practices advocates this thesis by approaching the interrelational dynamic of social practices in terms of existential analytic. Indeed, this insightful volume outlines a methodology of the double hermeneutics that allows the study of the entanglement of agential plans, beliefs, and intentions with configured practices; while also demonstrating how interrelated social practices with which agency is entangled articulate cultural forms of life. Suggesting a framework for studying the cultural forms of life within the scope of practice theory, this book will appeal to postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers interested in fields such as Social Theory, Philosophy of Social Science, and Research Methods for Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Hermeneutics as Critique

Hermeneutics as Critique
Author: Lorenzo C. Simpson
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2021-03-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0231551851

Hermeneutics has frequently been dismissed as useful only for literary and textual analysis. Some consider it to be Eurocentric or inherently relativistic and thus unsuited to social critique. Lorenzo C. Simpson offers a persuasive and powerful argument that hermeneutics is a valuable tool not only for critical theory but also for robustly addressing many of the urgent issues of today. Simpson demonstrates that hermeneutics exhibits significant interpretive advantages compared to competing explanatory modalities. While it shares with pragmatism a suspicion of essentialism, an understanding that disagreements are situated, and an insistence on the dialogical nature of understanding, it nevertheless resolutely rejects the relativistic accounts of rationality that are often associated with pragmatism. In the tradition of Gadamer, Simpson firmly establishes hermeneutics as a resource for both philosophy and the social sciences. He shows its utility for unpacking intractable issues in the philosophy of science, multiculturalism, social epistemology, and racial and social justice in the global arena. Simpson addresses fraught questions such as why recent claims that “race” has a biological basis lack grounding, whether female genital excision can be critically addressed without invidious ethnocentrism, and how to lay the foundations for meaningful cross-cultural dialogue and reparative justice. This book reveals how hermeneutics can be a worthy partner with critical theory in achieving emancipatory aims.

Stephen Turner and the Philosophy of the Social

Stephen Turner and the Philosophy of the Social
Author: Christopher Adair-Toteff
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2021-02-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004449604

Stephen Turner has produced a large and varied body of work on core issues in the philosophy of social science which is deeply engaged with its history. This book presents a critical review by distinguished scholars, together with his response.

Reconstitution of Social Work

Reconstitution of Social Work
Author: Yuk-Ying Ho
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9814280755

Ch. 1. Towards a hermeneutic conception of social work practice (1) : the myths of positivism and the strong thesis of value involvement / Sun-pong Yuen -- ch. 2. Towards a hermeneutic conception of social work practice (2) : social work skills and moral practice / Sun-pong Yuen -- ch. 3. A hermeneutic study of the mentally ill "self" / Mary C. K. Fong -- ch. 4. The meaning of cancer from a hermeneutic perspective / Wai-ying Chan -- ch. 5. Critical theory and community development / Yuk-ying Ho and Kun-sun Chan -- ch. 6. The moral basis of social work management / Kun-sun Chan.

Reconstitution of Social Work

Reconstitution of Social Work
Author: Yuk-ying Ho
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2010
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9814280747

This volume is the first book-length explication of hermeneutics in social work. It attempts to clarify and reconstruct the moral basis of social work. Against the mainstream current of doing social work with the technical-rational outlook, this book argues that value constitutes the very core of social work. It is with this solid foundation of moral concepts that social work techniques are reconstituted. This volume seamlessly combines theoretical discussions with empirical studies. It starts with a theoretical inquiry that combines hermeneutics and critical theory and examines the moral nature of social work. It then extends the theoretical analysis to empirical research on mental illness, cancer, community development and social work management. Redefining the relationship between theory and practice, the discussion on first-person value involvement and dialogical mode of understanding will inspire social workers to develop their professional practice in a new light. This volume will capture the attention of both social work scholars and frontline social work practitioners. The hermeneutic point of view will also be of interest to readers/students of social theory and social research.

Experiencing Multiple Realities

Experiencing Multiple Realities
Author: Marius Ion Benţa
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2018-02-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351811797

This book offers a theoretical investigation into the general problem of reality as a multiplicity of ‘finite provinces of meaning’, as developed in the work of Alfred Schutz. A critical introduction to Schutz’s sociology of multiple realities as well as a sympathetic re-reading and reconstruction of his project, Experiencing Multiple Realities traces the genesis and implications of this concept in Schutz’s writings before presenting an analysis of various ways in which it can shed light on major sociological problems, such as social action, social time, social space, identity, or narrativity.

Weber, Irrationality, and Social Order

Weber, Irrationality, and Social Order
Author: Alan Sica
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2024-06-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0520378849

Despite immediate appearances, this book is not primarily a hermeneutical exercise in which the superiority of one interpretation of canonical texts is championed against others. Its origin lies elsewhere, near the overlap of history, psychoanalysis, aesthetics, and social theory of the usual kind. Weber, Pareto, Freud, W. I. Thomas, Max Scheler, Karl Mannheim, and many others of similar stature long ago wondered and wrote much about the interplay between societal rationalization and individual rationality, between collective furor and private psychopathology—in short, about the strange and worrisome union of “character and social structure” (to recall Gerth and Mills). Pondering the history of social thought in this century can lead to the unpleasant realization that such large-scale questions slipped away, especially from sociologists, sometime before World War II. Or, if not entirely lost, they were so transformed in range and rhetoric that a gap opened between contemporary theorizing and its European background. Perhaps this partly explains Weber’s continuing appeal. By dealing with him, one might again broach topics long at odds with “social science” of the last forty years.—From the Preface This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.

Evolutionary Critical Theory and Its Role in Public Affairs

Evolutionary Critical Theory and Its Role in Public Affairs
Author: Charles Federick Abel
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2016-09-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 131529043X

This work addresses one of the most central and timely subjects in Public Administration - how to make sense of critical theory and especially how to assess its implications for everyday practice.

The Blackwell Companion to Hermeneutics

The Blackwell Companion to Hermeneutics
Author: Niall Keane
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 644
Release: 2016-01-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1118529634

A Companion to Hermeneutics is a collection of original essays from leading international scholars that provide a definitive historical and critical compendium of philosophical hermeneutics. Offers a definitive historical, systematic, and critical compendium of hermeneutics Represents state-of-the-art thinking on the major themes, topics, concepts and figures of the hermeneutic tradition in philosophy and those who have influenced hermeneutic thought, including Kant, Hegel, Schleiermacher Dilthey, Heidegger, Gadamer, Ricoeur, Foucault, Habermas, and Rorty Explores the art and theory of interpretation as it intersects with a number of philosophical and inter-disciplinary areas, including humanism, theology, literature, politics, education and law Features contributions from an international cast of leading and upcoming scholars, who offer historically informed, philosophically comprehensive, and critically astute contributions in their individual fields of expertise Written to be accessible to interested non-specialists, as well asprofessional philosophers