Introducing the Symposium on Interpretation and Social Knowledge by Isaac Ariail Reed

Abstract

This is the editorial to a symposium about the book "Interpretation and Social Knowledge", by Isaac Ariail Reed (University of Chicago Press, 2012). It provides a brief framing for the subsequent exchange between 8 different commentators and I.A.

Reed.

Keywords

• social theory
• interpretativism
• cultural sociology
• critical realism
• explanation and understanding