On the Possibilities of the Interpretive Approach

The purpose of this essay is to reconsider by reviewing classic works the possibilities of the Interpretive Approach that attaches importance to the “actor” and to the “subjectivity”. Contemporary sociology has been devided into minute sub fields by the advent of mini-paradigms. While the Interpretive Approrch is seen as beefing opposition to the Stracture-Fanctional Theory that is called authentic sociology, classic works of the Interpretive Approach genre contain “stracture” and “objectivity”. The two approaches are mutually related. The Interpretive Approach can be developed in a constructive way that is not a criticism of either deconstructionism or of conventional sociology but which places the focuses on interpretation itself.