Reiss, Julian (2007) Do we need mechanisms in the social sciences? Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 37 (2). pp. 163-184. ISSN 1552-7441
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Identification Number: 10.1177/0048393107299686
Abstract
A recent movement in the social sciences and philosophy of the social sciences focuses on mechanisms as a central analytical unit. Starting from a pluralistperspective on the aims of the social sciences, I argue that there are a number of important aims to which knowledge about mechanisms—whatever their virtues relative to other aims—contributes very little at best and that investigating mechanisms is therefore a methodological strategy with fairly limited applicability.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://pos.sagepub.com/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2007 Sage Publications |
| Divisions: | CPNSS |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Jun 2011 11:09 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Nov 2024 17:03 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/36466 |
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