CAUSE AND MEANING IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
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CAUSE AND MEANING IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES (ebook)

ERNEST GELLNER

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Editorial:
ROUTLEDGE
ISBN:
9781134413386
Páginas:
240
Formato:
Epublication content package
Idioma:
Inglés
DRM
Si

This volume focuses on key conceptual issues in the social sciences, such as Winch's idea of a social science, structuralism, Malinowski and Evans-Pritchard, and the concept of kinship. In particular it deals with such problems as the relationship of nature and culture, the relevance of concepts drawn from within a given society to its understanding, and the relation of theory to time.

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