Interpretation and Explanation in Cultural Sociology. A Three-Step Model of Interpretation and Its Empirical Application

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Authors	BINDER Werner
Year of publication	2014
Type	Article in Proceedings
Conference	Proceedings of the XIV April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development. Volume 3
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Social Studies
Citation
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Field	Sociology, demography
Keywords	Cultural Sociology; qualitative methodology; documentary method; Karl Mannheim
Description	The paper discusses the relation between interpretation and explanation in cultural sociology drawing on the early sociological works of Karl Mannheim. The dialectics between the surface of social life and cultural depth requires a particular type of interpretation which Mannheim dubbed «documentary interpretation». We can understand this structure as a «cultural background» that constitutes intentional acts and renders them meaningful.
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