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Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences: Selected Philosophical Themes
Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences Selected Philosophical Themes Author:Ernest Gellner 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 understa... more »nding, and the relation of theory to time.« less