The Explanation of Social Action: With a New Preface by the Author by Martin, John Levi
The Explanation of Social Action: With a New Preface by the Author by Martin, John Levi

The Explanation of Social Action: With a New Preface by the Author

The Explanation of Social Action is a sustained critique of the conventional understanding of what it means...
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Author: John Levi Martin
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The Explanation of Social Action: With a New Preface by the Author by Martin, John Levi

The Explanation of Social Action: With a New Preface by the Author

$100.23
The Explanation of Social Action: With a New Preface by the Author by Martin, John Levi

The Explanation of Social Action: With a New Preface by the Author

$100.23
Author: John Levi Martin
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
The Explanation of Social Action is a sustained critique of the conventional understanding of what it means to "explain" something in the social sciences. It makes the strong argument that the traditional understanding involves asking questions that have no clear foundation and provoke an unnecessary tension between lay and expert vocabularies. Drawing on the history and philosophy of the social sciences, John Levi Martin exposes the root of the problem as an attempt to counterpose two radically different types of answers to the question of why someone did a certain thing: first person and third person responses. The tendency is epitomized by attempts to explain human action in "causal" terms. Martin, instead of assuming that there is something fundamentally arbitrary about the cognitive schemes of actors, focuses on the nature of judgment. He argues that the most promising way forward to such a science of social aesthetics will involve a rigorous field theory. This paperback
edition includes a new preface, in which Martin connects The Explanation of Social Action to deep neural networks that are important to the study of artificial intelligence and to the development of computational social science.


Author: John Levi Martin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 06/15/2021
Pages: 424
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.29w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9780197601624

About the Author

John Levi Martin is Florence Borchert Bartling Professor of Sociology at The University of Chicago. He is also the author of Thinking Through Theory and Social Structures, which was awarded the 2010 Theory Prize from the American Sociological Association.

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