Varieties of Social Explanation
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Social Science
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10702102 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David-Hillel Ruben (0000-0002-9510-6523) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 102 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 120 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Varieties of social explanation: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Social Science, Daniel Little, 1991 |
| Venue | The Philosophical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8108 • E-ISSN: 1558-1470 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2185667 |
| OpenAlex | W2017272824 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Introduction Models Of Explanation * Causal Analysis * Rational Choice Theory * Interpretation Theory Variations And Elaborations * Functional and Structural ExplanationMaterialismEconomic AnthropologyStatistical Analysis Current Controversies * Methodological IndividualismRelativismToward Methodological Pluralism
Analytic philosophy · Contemporary philosophy · Epistemology · General interest · Social philosophy · Social relation · Social science · Sociology · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science
Uncovering perspectives on masculinity in Swiss men’s organizations using a mixed methods approach
Childrearing Values in Greece, Taiwan, and the United States
Taking Explanation Seriously in Political Science
Without Laslett to the lost worlds
The Ontology of Economic Things
Mechanisms of informal governance
Imitación, aprendizaje y la fundación de una nueva organización
Contrasts, counterfactuals,and causes
Interpretive approaches and the study of Italian politics
Vulnerability and nationalism
Características de una aproximación interpretativa a la educación
Unpacking Black Boxes
Introduction
The logic of inquiry in post-Soviet studies
Methodology and identity in research on police practices
How ‘Natives’ Think, About the Soul, For Example (with apologies to Sahlins)
Social constructionism and the environment
Distinctions, Differentiations, Ontology, and Non-humans in Theories of Religion
Three genres of sociology of knowledge and their Marxist origins
Theorizing about Trial Courts
Subjugated Knowledge in Gender-Integrated Social Work Education
Leaders' Motivations and Actions
The Natural Realm of Social Law
Transdisciplinarity as a Nonimperial Encounter
Mechanisms and Causal Histories
Rational choice theory and the politics of education
Homelessness and critical realism
Mechanisms and microfoundations in International Relations theory
Trust and Justice – Establishing the Link
South Africa as an Immigration State
A Needs-based Partial Theory of Human Injustice
Law School and Marriage
Science, materialism, and the quest for an anthropology of leisure
Is strategic studies narrow? Critical security and the misunderstood scope of strategy
Nacionalização da competição eleitoral no novo contexto democrático brasileiro
Individualisme méthodologique et réductionnisme
The Way We Ask for Money… The Emergence and Institutionalization of Grant Writing Practices in Academia
Das Aggregationsproblem bei Mikro-Makro-Erklärungen
Der Einfluss von Persönlichkeitseigenschaften und sozialen Ressourcen auf die Arbeitslosigkeitsdauer
Modeling Micro-Macro Relationships
A Challenge to Critical Understandings of Race
Case Studies and the Statistical Worldview
The change of tide in political cooperation
International Systems and Domestic Politics
The Flag or the Pocketbook
Market or Community Failure? Critical Perspectives on Common Property Research
Neo-liberalism, markets and class structures on the Nepali lowlands
Is Chávez Populist
Causal Mechanisms
Analytical Sociology and Its Critics
Searle and Collective Intentionality
El profesor como predicador, provocador y ermitaño. Un pre-texto para pensar las tareas de la didáctica de la historia
Historical Analysis of Political Processes
The Problem of Absent Social Categories
The Microfoundations Movement in Strategy and Organization Theory
Experimental Designs for Identifying Causal Mechanisms
More allies, weaker missions? How junior partners contribute to multinational military operations
Policy success/policy failure
Forced synthesis of trace amounts of juvenile hormone II from propionate by corpora allata of a juvenile hormone III-producing insect
Genealogy as a research tool in International Relations
Comparative Perspectives on Childcare Expansion in Germany
A house divided
Framing Foreign Policy Alternatives in the Inner Circle
La nueva filosofía mecanicista
Racial Attitudes, Accumulation Mechanisms, and Disparities
Student retention in higher education
Erklärungsmodelle und Erklärungskonzepte in der sportsoziologischen Forschung
Into the Minds of Ancients
Theorien, Modelle und Erklärungen. Einige Grundprobleme des soziologischen Theorienvergleichs
Soziale Mechanismen und das Struktur-individualistische Erklärungsprogramm. Zur forschungspraktischen Verortung sozialer Mechanismen
Social Factors in the Economy
New Contributions to the Philosophy of History
The causal effects of ideas on policies
Dissecting the Social
Mobility Regimes and Generative Mechanisms
Fisherwomen, fisheries policy, and maritime anthropology
Reduction in Sociology
Social Mechanisms and Causal Inference
World 3 and Methodological Individualism in Popper’s Thought
Methodological Individualism, Explanation, and Invariance
Mechanisms and Method
On the scope and limits of generalizations in the social sciences
Why the social sciences are irreducible
Rational-Choice Models and Asian Studies
Methodological Approaches to the Question of the Commons
The Epistemic Significance of Collaborative Research
Mechanisms and Functional Hypotheses in Social Science
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |