Interpretive Sociology does anyone have any personal example of this or how does it relate to society?

Question

Interpretive Sociology is the study of society that focuses on the meanings people attach to their social world.

Answer 1

Interpretive Sociology looks at society as it is and tries to do this in an objective manner.  It tries to explain they way we came to be the way we are and how we will behave in the future.

It tries to research within a scientific method.

A good example is the work of Max Weber in his works on power and authority.

Another example is the works of Berger and Berger in their book "The Social Construction of Reality".  There is also "Asylums" by Irving Goffman.

It is also rather boring to read, because of it's so called emphasis on scientific method.

It would be far more interesting to google this view of sociology on the net, where you will get a medly of views without having to read through the books.

Answer 2

Friends and family are meaningfully. Society is computerize.

Answer 3

wow.  Good, tough question.  I may have to sleep on it...lol.

Where to start.  Values and culture.  Study the various tribes--African, Asian, Indian, European, etc, take your pick, and you will find common threads in all of them, threads of meaning, totem, anomie, theodicy, Rites of passage--marriage, baptism and death.  Rites connected to the world of resources, of scarcity and abundance.  

Achievement, insight, the supernatural.  I am convinced, for example, that we learned to talk--not just how, but what why and when, around a fireplace.  We told stories.  There was intuition, inspiration.  This is where we all come from, where we hang our hats, this is the currency of heresay, humor, science, religion and unity.

So, then comes city states, nation states. and in a way that brings an illusion/recognition of organization, civilization.  

Meanings are what we have when we don't know and they are in a real way an order of magnitude above what we see on the big screen.  They are about the relationships we have, in families.   And they consist of intimations of superstition and fear.  Insomnia, voices, eidetic images straddle the fence at the furthest reaches of our control

So, sociology will always break down when someone says, "Let's put this in this box, the final exit box, and we will read of ourselves later on.."  And that is why we have reductionism.  No more fireplace, we are isolated, insulated, insulted.  We worked so hard to get ourselves lost.  So we rebuild, always.  And it's always different.  Because nature doesn't make mistakes.  We do.