Sociological Reasoning: A Non-Popperian Space of Argumentation

by Jean Claude Passeron

Sociological Reasoning is a classic study in sociology and philosophy by a leading French intellectual (and the co-author of several influential works with Pierre Bourdieu from 1964 to 1970). Jean-Claude Passeron's book was first published in 1991 and in a second revised and extended edition in 2006 (from which this book is translated).Passeron argues that to recognise sociology to be scientific involves situating it as an in-between science, neither reduced to the perceptions contained in the narratives of individuals nor generating a-historical truths of human behaviour in society.

618 pages, Hardcover

First published May 10, 2013