New Rules of Sociological Method: Second Edition
This is a new and revised edition of a book which has already established itself as a basic text in social theory. \ The first section of the work provides a concise critical analysis of some leading schools of thought in social philosophy, giving particular attention to phenomenology, ethnomethodology and Wittgensteinian thought. Giddens concentrates primarily upon the implications of these various perspectives for an account of human action and its intelligibility. An 'action approach' on...
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This new edition of a standard work—used as a text throughout the world—has been thoroughly re-edited and revised. In it Giddens tells how he believes social theory should be constructed and conducted and offers a critique of schools of social thought that continues to occupy a place in contemporary debates.
PrefaceIntroduction to the Second Edition1Introduction to the First Edition161Some Schools of Social Theory and Philosophy28Existential phenomenology: Schutz29Ethnomethodology39Post-Wittgensteinian philosophy: Winch50Summary: the significance of interpretative sociologies57Hermeneutics and critical theory: Gadamer, Apel, Habermas602Agency, Act-identifications and Communicative Intent77Problems of agency78Intentions and projects82The identification of acts84The rationalization of action88Meaning and communicative intent933The Production and Reproduction of Social Life100Order, power, conflict: Durkheim and Parsons100Order, power, conflict: Marx106The production of communication as 'meaningful'110Moral orders of interaction114Relations of power in interaction116Rationalization and reflexivity120The motivation of action122The production and reproduction of structure125Summary1324The Form of Explanatory Accounts136Positivistic dilemmas138Later developments: Popper and Kuhn141Science and non-science144Relativism and hermeneutic analysis151The problem of adequacy155Conclusion: Some New Rules of Sociological Method163Notes171Index179
