And we introduced two alternatives: interpretative sociology and critical sociology.

我们介绍了两种选择：解释社会学和批判社会学。

And this brings us to another way of doing sociology: Interpretative sociology is the study of society that focuses on the meanings that people attach to their social world.

这将我们带到另一种研究社会学的方式：解释社会学是对社会的研究，它关注人们赋予其社会世界的意义。

While positivist sociology is more interested in whether a person acts a certain way – something you can see as an outside observer – interpretative sociology asks: Why this behavior?

虽然实证主义社会学更感兴趣的是一个人是否以某种方式行事——你可以作为一个外部观察者看到的东西——解释社会学会问：为什么会有这种行为？