Symbolic Interaction And Ethnographic Research Intersubjectivity And The Study O - Robert Prus

Examines A Series Of Theoretical And Methodological Issues Faced By Social Scientists In Interpretive And Ethnographic Studies Of Human Group The Heart Of The Sociological Enterprise Is The Idea That Human Behavior Is The Product Of Community Life; That People's Behaviors Cannot Be Reduced To Individual Properties. A Major Task Facing Sociologists ( And Social Scientists More Generally), Revolves Around The Study Of The Accomplishment Of Intersubjectivity; That Is, Indicating How People Become Social Entities And How They Attend To One Another And The Products Of Human Endeavor On A Day-to-day Basis.taking Issue With Both Positivist And Postmodernist Orientations To The Social Sciences, The Approach Taken Here Insists That The Theory And Methods Of The Social Sciences Respect The Actualities Of Human Group Life. The Objective Is To Establish A Greater (epistemological) Coherence Between The Theory, Methods, And Research Which Typifies The Social Sciences, And The Actual, Ongoing Practices And Experiences Of Those Who Constitute The Human Community.