Explanation and Understanding in the Human Sciences
Gurpreet Mahajan
Social scientists explain events by identifying reasons and causes. Occasionally they weave a series of events into a historical narrative. What is entailed in each kind of explanation? What form of explanation is adequate for the social sciences? In this lucid book, Gurpreet Mahajan surveys each of the major forms of inquiry - hermeneutic understanding, narrative, reason-action, and causal explanation - to examine how each method changes our perceptions of social reality. This edition includes a new Preface that discusses the evolution in social sciences over the last twenty years.
درجه (قاطیغوری(:
کال:
2011
خپرونه:
3
خپرندویه اداره:
OUP India
ژبه:
english
صفحه:
180
ISBN 10:
0198076975
ISBN 13:
9780198076971
فایل:
PDF, 1.12 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2011