Abstract

These four statements concerning the shape and structure of sociological knowledge evidence a shifting trend in epistemology beyond the skepticism of `post-positivism'. Each considers how, in the beginning of the 21st century, sociological knowledge can and should be constructed. The answers are varied, as are the approaches to the problem, revealing that the new, positive, era of social knowledge is not so much a consensus as a set of contentious disagreements about how to interpret social life — and about what, exactly, the status of these interpretations is.

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