Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences

by Ernest Gellner

I. C. Jarvie and Joseph Agassi

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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.
  • ISBN10 0710075995
  • ISBN13 9780710075994
  • Publish Date 28 June 1973
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 15 November 1991
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Routledge & Kegan Paul Books
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 240
  • Language English