The Explanation of Social Action
The Explanation of Social Action is a sustained critique of the conventional understanding of what it means to explain something in the social sciences. It makes the strong argument that the traditional understanding involves asking questions that have no clear foundation and provoke an unnecessary tension between lay and expert vocabularies. Drawing on the history and philosophy of the social sciences, John Levi Martin exposes the root of the problem as an attempt to counterpose two radically different types of answers to the question of why someone did a certain thing: first person and third person responses. The tendency is epitomized by a…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-977344-2
- EAN: 9780199773442
- Produktnummer: 13998871
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 400 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'024 KB
- Abbildungen: 10 b/w line
Über den Autor
John Levi Martin is Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Social Structures, which was awarded the 2010 Theory Prize from the American Sociological Association.
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