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Beschreibung
The Explanation of Social Action is a sustained critique of the conventional understanding of what it means to explain something in the social sciences. It makes the strong argument that the traditional understanding involves asking questions that have no clear foundation and provoke an
unnecessary tension between lay and expert vocabularies. Drawing on the history and philosophy of the social sciences, John Levi Martin exposes the root of the problem as an attempt to counterpose two radically different types of answers to the question of why someone did a certain thing: first
person and third person responses. The tendency is epitomized by attempts to explain human action in causal terms. Martin, instead of assuming that there is something fundamentally arbitrary about the cognitive schemes of actors, focuses on the nature of judgment. He argues that the most promising
way forward to such a science of social aesthetics will involve a rigorous field theory. This paperback edition includes a new preface, in which Martin connects The Explanation of Social Action to deep neural networks that are important to the study of artificial intelligence and to the development
of computational social science.
The Explanation of Social Action is a sustained critique of the conventional understanding of what it means to explain something in the social sciences. It makes the strong argument that the traditional understanding involves asking questions that have no clear foundation and provoke an
unnecessary tension between lay and expert vocabularies. Drawing on the history and philosophy of the social sciences, John Levi Martin exposes the root of the problem as an attempt to counterpose two radically different types of answers to the question of why someone did a certain thing: first
person and third person responses. The tendency is epitomized by attempts to explain human action in causal terms. Martin, instead of assuming that there is something fundamentally arbitrary about the cognitive schemes of actors, focuses on the nature of judgment. He argues that the most promising
way forward to such a science of social aesthetics will involve a rigorous field theory. This paperback edition includes a new preface, in which Martin connects The Explanation of Social Action to deep neural networks that are important to the study of artificial intelligence and to the development
of computational social science.
Über den Autor
John Levi Martin is Florence Borchert Bartling Professor of Sociology at The University of Chicago. He is also the author of Thinking Through Theory and Social Structures, which was awarded the 2010 Theory Prize from the American Sociological Association.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Preface to the Paperback Edition

  • Preface

  • Chapter 1-Why Questions? What Explanations?

  • Chapter 2-Causality and Persons

  • Chapter 3-Authority and Experience

  • Chapter 4-The Grid of Perception

  • Chapter 5-Action In and On a World

  • Chapter 6-A Social Aesthetics

  • Chapter 7-Valence and Habit

  • Chapter 8-Fields and Games

  • Chapter 9-Explanations Explained

  • References

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780197601624
ISBN-10: 0197601626
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Martin, John Levi
Hersteller: Oxford University Press, USA
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: John Levi Martin
Erscheinungsdatum: 30.09.2021
Gewicht: 0,641 kg
Artikel-ID: 121089974

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