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‘Interpretivism’ is the position in .................... .

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MH SET 2020 Paper 2 Sociology Question Paper (27-Dec-2020)
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Epistemological

Epistemology concerns what counts as acceptable knowledge and how it can be obtained; ontology concerns the nature of social reality. Alan Bryman describes positivism and interpretivism as contrasting epistemological positions, and objectivism and constructionism as ontological positions.

Interpretivism holds that the subject matter of the social sciences — people and their meanings — differs from that of natural sciences, so knowledge requires grasping the subjective meaning of social action (Weber's Verstehen, phenomenology, symbolic interactionism).

Hence, the answer is Epistemological.

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