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Explanation and understanding in the human sciences
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mahajan, Gurpreet, Author.
- Series:
- Oxford India paperbacks.
- Oxford India paperbacks Explanation and understanding in the human sciences
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Causation--Methodology.
- Causation.
- Social sciences.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 155 p.).
- Edition:
- 3rd ed.
- Other Title:
- Oxford India paperbacks
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-908867-5
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