Explanation and understanding in the human sciences
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Explanation and understanding in the human sciences
（Oxford India paperbacks）
Oxford University Press, 2011
3rd ed.
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityグローバル専攻
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [132]-149) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION
- PREFACE
- EPILOGUE: POSTMODERN ANTI-FOUNDATIONALISM
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
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