By Franco Ferrarotti

ISBN-10: 0739105108

ISBN-13: 9780739105108

ISBN-10: 0739113119

ISBN-13: 9780739113110

Franco Ferrarotti turns his massive erudition and perception to problems with idea and procedure within the human sciences, arguing that sociological investigations were constrained via their preoccupation with quantitative tools of research. an important social difficulties, from drug habit to terrorism, can most sensible be addressed through rediscovering autobiographical fabrics and the worth of the person. Ferrarotti hopes to steer sociologists clear of overly reductionistic, technical dimension in their subjects_an method that has more and more been problematized by way of the traditional sciences_toward an exam of the area of lived event utilizing tools which are either interpretive and historical.

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