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History of hermeneutics

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posted on 2023-06-08, 00:05 authored by W Outhwaite
The term ‘hermeneutics’ refers to the science, art, or technique of interpretation, paradigmatically of written texts but also, by extension, of human actions and other social phenomena. In this extended sense, it has come to denote a variety of approaches in the social and behavioral sciences (‘verstehende’ sociology, symbolic interactionism, social phenomenology, social constructionism, ethnomethodology). Hermeneutic or phenomenological approaches now coexist and are even combined with more structural conceptions of social science or ones modeled more closely on the natural sciences. Hermeneutics in a broader sense continues to exist as a major research tradition in the humanities, as well as a minority one in the social and behavioral sciences.

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  • Published

Publisher

Elsevier

Page range

6661-6665

Pages

5.0

Book title

International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences

Place of publication

London

ISBN

9780080430768

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  • Sociology and Criminology Publications

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Editors

Paul B Baltes, Neil J Smelser

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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