
Explanation and Understanding in the Human Sciences
Gurpreet Mahajan(Author)
OUP India (Publisher)
3rd Edition
Published on 13. October 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
180 pages
978-0-19-807697-1 (ISBN)
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.
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Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Students, teachers, and scholars of political science, philosophy, and the social sciences.
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 211 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
200 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-807697-1 (9780198076971)
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Gurpreet Mahajan
Explanation and Understanding in the Human Sciences
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08/2011
1st Edition
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Gurpreet Mahajan
Explanation and Understanding in the Human Sciences
Book
09/1997
2nd Edition
OUP India
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Person
Gurpreet Mahajan is Professor, Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Content
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION; PREFACE; EPILOGUE: POSTMODERN ANTI-FOUNDATIONALISM;; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX