Author : Gurpreet Mahajan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199088675
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Explanation and Understanding in the Human Sciences by : Gurpreet Mahajan
Download or read book Explanation and Understanding in the Human Sciences written by Gurpreet Mahajan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. The third edition includes a new Preface that discusses some recent shifts in the conceptualization of the social sciences.