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Selected Philosophical Themes, volume I: Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences by Earnest Gellner, Gellner Earnest is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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<p><P>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.</p>
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Earnest Gellner, Gellner Earnest
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781134413249
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Reference, Philosophy, Science
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