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Discuss the importance of interpretative understanding of social phenomena and explain its limitations.

  • UPSC 2019
  • Sociological Thinkers

Interpretative understanding holds that social phenomena, unlike natural objects, are made up of meanings that actors give to their situations, and must be grasped from within before they can be explained. Wilhelm Dilthey (Introduction to the Human Sciences, 1883) separated the human sciences, which aim at understanding (Verstehen) of lived experience, from the natural sciences,…

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