Title: Experience vs. understanding
First published: 1998
Description: Bringing into play a lifetime of sociological analysis, Harry Bredemeier here explores fundamental issues in epistemology and ethics - and how social research has altered traditional views on such major subjects as the play of physical force in social life, the distinction between the physical and moral universe, risk taking and life making, rights and obligationsin short the most basic questions posed for our times by the sociological tradition.

Experience vs. Understanding is a unique study that will be enjoyed by and beneficial to philosophers, sociologists, and political theorists, who are searching for the philosophical foundations of social science.
Subjects: Social psychology, Social perception, Social ethics, Experience, Comprehension, Insanity (law), Jury, united states, Twenty-first century, Self-evaluation, Self-perception, Sociology & Social Policy, Perception sociale, Psychologie sociale
LC classification: HM251 .B626 1998