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History of hermeneutics
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posted on 2023-06-08, 00:05 authored by W OuthwaiteThe 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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ElsevierExternal DOI
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6661-6665Pages
5.0Book title
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral SciencesPlace of publication
LondonISBN
9780080430768Department affiliated with
- Sociology and Criminology Publications
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Paul B Baltes, Neil J SmelserLegacy Posted Date
2012-02-06Usage metrics
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