Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences - Brossura

Elster, Jon

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ISBN 10: 0521777445 ISBN 13: 9780521777445

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Riassunto

This book is an expanded and revised edition of the author's critically acclaimed volume Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences. In twenty-six succinct chapters, Jon Elster provides an account of the nature of explanation in the social sciences. He offers an overview of key explanatory mechanisms in the social sciences, relying on hundreds of examples and drawing on a large variety of sources - psychology, behavioral economics, biology, political science, historical writings, philosophy and fiction. Written in accessible and jargon-free language, Elster aims at accuracy and clarity while eschewing formal models. In a provocative conclusion, Elster defends the centrality of qualitative social sciences in a two-front war against soft (literary) and hard (mathematical) forms of obscurantism.

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Recensione:

"...contains many interesting puzzles and examples, and excellent elementary discussions of the major concepts of the social sciences...a treasure trove of suitable and interesting case-studies and examples..." --Dean Rickles, University of Sydney: Philosophy in Review

Descrizione del libro:

This book is an expanded and revised edition of the author's critically acclaimed volume Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences. In twenty-six succinct chapters, Elster provides an account of the nature of explanation in the social sciences, offering an overview of key explanatory mechanisms in the social sciences with hundreds of examples.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0521777445
• ISBN 13: 9780521777445
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 498