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Auteur(s) : Martin, John Levi (1964-....)
Titre(s) : The explanation of social action [Texte imprimé] / John Levi Martin
Publication : Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, cop. 2011
Description matérielle : xiii, 396 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Comprend : Why questions? What explanations? ; Causality and persons ; Authority and experience
; The grid of perception ; Action in and on a world ; A social aesthetics ; Valence
and habit ; Fields and games ; Explanations explained.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-386) and index
"The Explanation of Social Action lays out a sustained critique of this understanding,
pointing out that the root of the problem is an attempt to counterpose two radically
different types of answers to the question of why someone did a certain thing--first
person responses and third person ones. John Levi Martin illustrates how this tendency
is epitomized in attempts to explain human action in "causal" terms. He shows how
this causality has little to do with the real world, but instead involves the creation
of imaginary worlds, stemming from an intellectual history whereby social scientists
began to distrust the self-understanding of actors and accepted fundamentally anti-democratic
epistemologies, due to an epistemic hiatus in social knowledge and the adoption of
practices in the intensely hierarchic setting of forced incarceral institutions for
the insane. Martin moves on to highlight other traditions that do not assume that
the cognitive schemes of actors are fundamentally arbitrary. These traditions in turn
suggest that the analytic problems that now arise require attention to the nature
of judgment, implying the need for an understanding of the process whereby actors
intuit intersubjectively valid qualities of complex social objects."--pub. desc.
Sujet(s) : Action sociale
Philosophie sociale
Numéros : ISBN 9780199773312 (hbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0199773319 (hbk.) (alk. paper)
Notice n° :
FRBNF42433379
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