01461nam a2200337 a 4500001001400000003000800014005001700022006001900039007001500058008004100073020003800114040002100152050001000173082001400183100002300197245010000220250001200320260005900332300003700391490002800428500002400456520032600480588004700806504005100853650003400904650001500938776003300953830002900986856009101015999001701106EDZ0000092257StDuBDS20150804193949.0m||||||||d||||||||cr||||||||||||120709s2011    ii     fo|    001 0 eng|d  a9780199080403 (ebook) :cNo price  aStDuBDScStDuBDS 4aBD54104a300.12231 aMahajan, Gurpreet.10aExplanation and understanding in the human sciencesh[electronic resource] /cGurpreet Mahajan.  a3rd ed.  aNew Delhi ;aOxford :bOxford University Press,c2011.  a1 online resource (xii, 155 p.).1 aOxford India paperbacks  aPrevious ed.: 1997.8 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.  aDescription based on print version record.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 0aSocial sciencesxMethodology. 0aCausation.08iPrint versionz9780198076971 0aOxford India paperbacks.403Oxford scholarship onlineuhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198076971.001.0001  c38632d38632