Gurpreet Mahajan

Explanation and Understanding in the Human Sciences

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book surveys the major forms of inquiry in the social sciences, including hermeneutic understanding, narrative, reason-action, and causal explanation, to examine how each method changes our perception of social reality. This edition includes a new Preface that discusses the evolution in social sciences since over the last twenty years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• 3rd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 137mm x 213mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 186g
• ISBN-13: 9780198076971
• ISBN-10: 0198076975
• Artikelnr.: 40230698

Autorenporträt

Gurpreet Mahajan is Professor, Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface to Third Edition
Preface
1: Explaining Causally;
2: Reason-Action Explanation;
3: Hermeneutic Understanding;
4: The Narrative Mode;
5: Some Considerations on Method;
Epilogue: Postmodern Anti-Foundationalism;
Bibliography
Index