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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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Bibliographic Details
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
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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.
Item Description:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 155 p.).
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199080403
0199080402
9780199088676
0199088675