{Verstehen}[5th January 1991]

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‘In this tradition* [now known as “symbolic interactionism”]** an interest in an appropriate methodology accompanied the growth of substantive knowledge; [William I.]** Thomas particularly emphasised the value of extensive use of personal documents, life histories, and autobiographies. In recent years interest in research on the self and self-conscious behaviour has spread widely, and is now participated in by psychologists, philosophers, and essayists,*** as well as by a movement within sociology called “ethnomethodology”, which investigates areas of symbolic interaction by informal observation, reflection, and skilled interpretation, methods sometimes called Verstehen (understanding).’

– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 27:] 382

*(‘... [of] the theory that mind and self are not part of the innate equipment of the human organism but arise in experience and are constructed in a social process – that is, in a process of interaction among persons in intimate, personal communication with one another.’[)]

[– Encyclopaedia Britannica 27:381-2]

**[Square brackets as in ms, indicating text inserted into original source at ms stage]

***[& nowadays also by neurologists & similar researchers]

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