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Elaborate the main tenets of interpretative perspective in sociology

  • UPSC 2017
  • Sociology as a Science

The interpretative perspective is not a single theory but a family of approaches — Weberian interpretive sociology, symbolic interactionism, phenomenology, and ethnomethodology — united by one founding conviction: social reality is fundamentally different from natural reality because it is meaningful.

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  • The Shared Ground: Meaning as the Object of Sociology
  • Weber's Verstehen: The Founding Methodological Principle
  • Symbolic Interactionism: Meaning Constructed Through Interaction
  • Phenomenology: The Life-World as Starting Point
  • Ethnomethodology: Members' Own Practical Sense-Making

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