Explanation and understanding in the human sciences.

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 t...

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Main Author:	Mahajan, Gurpreet (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	New Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Edition:	3rd ed.
Series:	Oxford India paperbacks.
Subjects:	Causation > Methodology. Social sciences. Sciences sociales. social sciences. Social sciences Causation Social sciences > Methodology Philosophy. Philosophy & Religion. Speculative Philosophy. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book