What is a (social) structural explanation?
A philosophically useful account of social structure must accommodate the fact that social structures play an important role in structural explanation. But what is a structural explanation? How do structural explanations function in the social sciences? This paper offers a way of thinking about stru...
Main Author: | Haslanger, Sally (Contributor) |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy (Contributor) |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Springer-Verlag,
2015-05-20T15:45:00Z.
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Online Access: | Get fulltext |
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