A realist philosophy of social science : explanation and understanding /

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Manicas brings the idea of causality and the role that it plays in the physical sciences to bear on inquiry in social sciences. Offering a reassessment of the problem of explanation from a realist perspective, this breathtaking volume, with a host of concrete examples, will appeal to the non-special...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Manicas, Peter T.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Social sciences > Philosophy.
Social sciences > Study and teaching.
Sciences sociales > Philosophie.
Sciences sociales > Étude et enseignement.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Methodology.
Social sciences > Philosophy
Social sciences > Study and teaching
Realismus
Sozialwissenschaften
Wissenschaftstheorie
Sociale filosofie.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Explanation and understanding
  • Theory, experiment and the metaphysics of Laplace
  • Explanation and understanding in the social sciences
  • Agents and generative social mechanisms
  • Social science and history
  • Markets as social mechanisms
  • Appendix A: The limits of multiple regression
  • Appendix B: Comparison, Mill's methods and narrative
  • Appendix C: Rational choice theory and historical sociology
  • Appendix D: The neo-classical model.

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