TY - BOOK AU - Bleicher,Josef TI - The hermeneutic imagination: outline of a positive critique of scientism and sociology SN - 9781315763613 (ebook : PDF) PY - 2015/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Hermeneutics KW - Positivism KW - Scientism KW - Sociology KW - Methodology N1 - First published in 1982; Includes bibliographical references (p. 162-168) and indexes; 1. Scientism and hermeneutics : two claims to universality -- 2. The rise of a science of society and its normative presuppositions -- 3. The development of a non-scientistic sociology in the context of the Geisteswissenschaften and Idealist philosophy -- 4. Towards a hermeneutic paradigm for sociology -- 5. Objective interpretation in macro-sociology and the hermeneutic dimension -- 6. The dilemma of interpretive sociology -- 7. Between interpretive and hermeneutic sociology : the case of ethnomethodology -- 8. Elements of a hermeneutic sociology UR - http://www.tandfebooks.com/isbn/9781315763613 ER -