Anthropological Readings: Introduction to Social Sciences

There is a systematic interest in generalization. The very rules of historicism are those that decide what is valid in our discipline (History).In the Social Sciences, "Time" is being reintroduced, temporality, but also interpretation to the detriment of causal explanation, giving priority to resources of symbolic inspiration.There is a decline of the macro-structural visions of the 1980s.Postmodernity represents an ontological bankruptcy that is advancing unevenly " The idea that there are no facts if not interpretations takes shape ". There is an explicit revaluation of the subjective and experiential. Inter subjectivism will be to understand the cognitive point of view.These are some of the new approaches and new languages.