Gellner, Ernest - Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences

London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, [1973]. orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xi,228 pp. Rith some inked notes on table-of-contents page.. illus.. Pencilled underlinings to the first 110 pages. Good. dustwrappe ¶ Edited with a preface by I. C. Jarvie and Joseph Agassi. Contents: Explanation in history; Concepts and society; Winch's idea of a social science; The new idealism - cause and meaning in the social sciences. Appendix: Anthropomorphism; The entry of the philosophers; time and theory in social anthropology; Sociology and social anthropology; On Malinowski; On Evans-Pritchard; On structuralism; Ideal language and kinship structure;The concept of kinship- with special reference to Mr Needham's "Descent systems and ideal language"; Nature and society in social anthroplogy; The alchemists of sociology; the sociology of faith.

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