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Pragmatism and/or/vs Hermeneutics?

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This article is the introduction to the special issue of The American Sociologist on the theme ‘Pragmatism and/or/versus Hermeneutics.’ As such, the article presents the overall perspective of this special issue, focusing on the general overview of the possible debates between those two orientations in sociology. Some of the epistemological and theoretical positions of pragmatism and hermeneutics are presented, in order to orient the possible debates between the two orientations. With respect to the historical background of their respective developments, this introduction invites the reader to the questionings that are being renewed in the context of the more recent encounter between pragmatism and hermeneutics in contemporary sociological analyses.

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  1. Department of Sociology, Université du Québec À Montréal, C.P. 8888, Succursale Centre-Ville, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3P8, Canada

    Jean-François Côté

  2. Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina/Greensboro, 337 Frank Porter Graham Building, PO Box 26170, Greensboro, NC, 27402-6170, USA

    Daniel R. Huebner

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Côté, JF., Huebner, D.R. Pragmatism and/or/vs Hermeneutics?. Am Soc 52, 667–670 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-021-09522-z

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