Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences: Selected Philosophical Themes

By 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 understanding, and the relation of theory to time.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415488613
• ISBN13: 9780415488617
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"