Why Cant social reality be interpreted objectively?

Answer 1

There is no objective social reality

and it is a futile exercise for the

Social Sciences to try to find any.

The social sciences are not

practised at the level of things in

themselves, but they are

practised at the level of meanings

to provide explanations for them.

A meaning is projected onto

things by individuals and the act

of projecting meaning onto things

is a subjective one. In a world

that is filled with meaningless

things, the individuals project

meaning in an arbitrary manner.

And it is this subjectivity that

social sciences paddle within.

There are no objective laws in the

social sciences and it is a bizarre

claim that there is an unchanging

human nature that, if understood

properly, could give us the key to

provide explanations for or make

predictions about social

phenomena. It is important to

underline that the phenomena

mentioned here is not one that is

perceived through senses but is

one that is perceived through a

subjectively oriented mind.