Subjectivism

This chapter examines subjectivism as a strategy in social theory. However, subjectivism should be viewed in terms of a dialogue with the competing strategies, discussed in other chapters. This is because a number of strategic tensions arise out of subjectivism’s resolution of the problems of the nature of social reality and the way we acquire knowledge about it, which force it to confront these other strategies of theorising. The strategy of subjectivism together with its tensions will be outlined briefly before examining in detail a number of attempts to construct theoretical projects which have been inspired by subjectivist arguments.