Hermeneutics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7079436 |
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| Authors | Wendy Hilton‐morrow, Austin Harrington (0000-0003-4635-2741) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 1-3 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-14 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosh025 |
| OpenAlex | W4214709952 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Hermeneutics is a branch of sociology concerned with human understanding and interpretation. It was originally applied solely to texts, but sociologists have applied hermeneutics to social events by examining participants' understandings of the events from the standpoint of their specific historical and cultural context. Hermeneutics is opposed to the view that social phenomena can be grasped adequately by reference to invariant laws of cause and effect or statistical regularities, as with positivist and behaviorist approaches and some elements of functionalist theory. Hermeneutics is one among a range of approaches to meaning, symbolization, and representation in social life that includes semiotics, structuralism, deconstruction, and discourse analysis
Hermeneutics · Theology · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Translation Studies and Practices
| Highly cited | No |
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