Reading of Theoretical Texts
Edition: 1 edition
Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought, 19
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 10, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780415207720
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Social research & statistics; Social Sciences Research; Social Science; Sociology; Sociology - Social Theory; Social Science / Sociology / General; Research; Criticism, Textual; Language; Methodology; Social sciences
Description: "Since the structuralist debates of the 1970s the field of textual analysis has largely remained the preserve of literary theorists. Social scientists, while accepting that observation is theory laden, have tended to take the meaning of texts as a given and to explain differences of interpretation either in terms of ignorance or bias. In this contribution to methodological debate, Peter Ekegren uses developments within literary criticism, philosophy and critical theory to reclaim this study for the social sciences and to illuminate the ways in which different readings of a single text are created and defended."--Jacket.