Cause and meaning in the social sciences;

By Ernest Gellner

Book 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0710075995
• ISBN13: 9780710075994
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul
• Length: 1000 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.