Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences
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Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences

by Ernest Gellner

Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Pages
240
Language
English
Published
1973

Overview

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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