“Stalin's Curse” draws mainly on German and Russian archives, plus numerous first-hand accounts, and the author's formidable interpretative skills.

除了运用大量第一手记述资料之外，《斯大林的诅咒》主要参考了德国和俄国档案。书中作者对史料的解读展现出高超的技巧。

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。

Instead, interpretative sociologists often use interviews or face-to-face interactions with their subjects to understand the world.

相反，解释社会学家经常使用访谈或与他们的研究对象面对面的互动来了解世界。

He contents himself with printing his own interviews with his 25 world changers (or sometimes clipping together bits of other people's interviews) rather than writing interpretative essays.

他满足于书写他和25位改变世界者的访谈（或者有时候将其他人的访谈也拼凑一点），而并不写些有解释力的文章。

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？