Double hermeneutic
The double hermeneutic is the theory, expounded by sociologist
Overview
Anthony Giddens (1982) argues that there is an important difference between the natural and social sciences.
In outlining his notion of the double hermeneutic, Giddens explains that while philosophers and social scientists have often considered the way "in which lay concepts obstinately intrude into the technical discourse of social science," ... "(f)ew have considered the matter the other way around."[8] He explains that "the concepts of the social sciences are not produced about an independently constituted subject-matter, which continues regardless of what these concepts are. The findings of the social sciences very often enter constitutively into the world they describe."[9]
Philosopher
See also
- Feedback § Social sciences
- Goodhart's Law
- Hermeneutics
- Interpretative phenomenological analysis
- Reflexivity (social theory)
References
- ^ Giddens, A., Social Theory and Modern Sociology (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1987), pp. 20–21.
- ^ Richards, H., Understanding the Global Economy (Thousand Oaks: Peace Education Books, 2004), p. 309.
- ^ a b Ginev, D., Hermeneutic Realism: Reality Within Scientific Inquiry (Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer, 2016), p. 148.
- ^ Weinert, F., Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud: Revolutions in the History and Philosophy of Science (Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), p. 228.
- SAGE Publishing, 1998), p. 59.
- ^ Zimmermann, J., Hermeneutics: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), p. 21.
- ^ Giddens, New Rules of Sociological Method: A Positive Critique of Interpretative Sociologies, 2nd ed. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993), p. 9.
- ^ Dodig-crnkovic, G., & Burgin, M., eds., Philosophy And Methodology Of Information: The Study of Information in the Transdisciplinary Perspective (Singapore: World Scientific, 2019), p. 221.
- ^ Giddens, The Constitution of Society (Cambridge: Polity, 1984), p. 20.
Further reading
- Giddens, A., & Pierson, C., Conversations with Anthony Giddens (Cambridge: Polity Press; Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1998), ISBN 978-0-7456-6642-6.