1st Edition

Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences

By Ernest Gellner Copyright 1973
    240 Pages
    by Routledge

    240 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    Chapter 1 Explanation in history; Chapter 2 Chapter 2 Concepts and society; Chapter 3 Chapter 3 Winch's idea of a social science; Chapter 4 Chapter 4 The new idealism—cause and meaning in the social sciences; Chapter 5 Chapter 5 The entry of the philosophers; Chapter 6 Chapter 6 Time and theory in social anthropology; Chapter 7 Chapter 7 Sociology and social anthropology; Chapter 8 Chapter 8 On Malinowski; Chapter 9 Chapter 9 On Evans-Pritchard; Chapter 10 Chapter 10 On structuralism; Chapter 11 Chapter 11 Ideal language and kinship structure; Chapter 12 Chapter 12 The concept of kinship; Chapter 13 Chapter 13 Nature and society in social anthropology; Chapter 14 Chapter 14 The alchemists of sociology, Williamblake; Chapter 15 Chapter 15 The sociology of faith; Chapter 16 Sources Index Index;

    Biography

    Ernest Gellner