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Role-Set Theory and Modernity: Transforming Experience into Understanding

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Contrary to popular opinion, experience is not a very good teacher. One essential lesson of the social sciences is the instruction that it is the interpretation of experience (or, more precisely, the tested interpretation of experience) that forms the foundation of knowledge. Such interpretations, in turn, rest on the development of sensitising concepts that focus our attention on critically relevant features of that sensory muddle called ‘experience’.

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Roberts, L.W., von Below, S. (2004). Role-Set Theory and Modernity: Transforming Experience into Understanding. In: Genov, N. (eds) Advances in Sociological Knowledge. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-09215-5_5

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