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100 1 _aMahajan, Gurpreet.
245 1 0 _aExplanation and understanding in the human sciences
_h[electronic resource] /
_cGurpreet Mahajan.
250 _a3rd ed.
260 _aNew Delhi ;
_aOxford :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2011.
300 _a1 online resource (xii, 155 p.).
490 1 _aOxford India paperbacks
500 _aPrevious ed.: 1997.
520 8 _aGurpreet Mahajan surveys each of the major forms of inquiry - hermeneutic understanding, narrative, reason-action, and causal explanation - to examine how each method changes our perceptions of social reality. This edition includes a new Preface that discusses the evolution in social sciences over the last twenty years.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 _aSocial sciences
_xMethodology.
650 0 _aCausation.
776 0 8 _iPrint version
_z9780198076971
830 0 _aOxford India paperbacks.
856 4 0 _3Oxford scholarship online
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198076971.001.0001
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