Editor’s Introduction: Methods of Interpretive Sociology
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The Rationale The term 'interpretive' in the discussion of sociological methods is the most common translation of the German word 'verstehen,' but the German term is also translated as 'understanding'. There are many discussions and disputes over the translation of words between languages. What can be said about the meaning of interpretive method in sociology can be seen in discussions and disputes within the English language over what such a term should be understood to mean. From the outset, and in line with the key German authors whose works frame discussions of interpretive method, verstehen should not be understood as empathy, the purely subjective experience of others. As such, verstehen requires the ability to get not inside the skin of other people, but rather the concepts they use to organize their experience of the world. As such, you do not have to have stood in someone else's shoes to gain some understanding of how they saw the world, and how such an understanding informed their actions and interactions. Concepts, within language, are by their nature, shared, and therefore in common, not purely subjective. That different languages correspond, to some degree at least, with significantly different conceptual frames that require translation, but this is also true within a language, between different communities and groups and across different historical eras and generations. The difficulty of translation should not be underestimated. The task of the interpretive method is precisely that. Discussions over translation into English, and between academic fields and traditions that has gone on in academic journals over the last one hundred years represents the best vantage point from which to discern both the nature of the difficulties involved and the various ways in which solutions have
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