Interpretative paradigm

Designs, united with the phenomenological sociology, the ethnomethodology and the symbolic interactionism, a new main theoretical exposition, that understands the social relations (interaction) as the interpretative processes, with which the actors are related among them interpreting their expectations or the possible ways of the companions' behavior in the action. Unlike to the structural sociological theories (functionalism, Structural-functional theory, Systems Theory), starting from the assumption that a social structure given objectively, the interpretative paradigm requires preferably the interpretative reconstruction of the interpretations that unfold in the researched social relations.The interpretative paradigm supports the belief that reality is constructed by subjective perception and predictions cannot be made. Researchers who agree with this paradigm are interested in the social construction of meaning. People have free will, purposes, goals, and intentions, so people should be studied as active agents.