Woodcutters and Witchcraft
Subtitle: Rationality and Interpretive Change in the Social Sciences (Suny Series in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: March 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780791445129
Subjects: Social theory; Sociology; Research; Social Science; Sociology - General; Movements - Humanism; Sociology - Social Theory; Philosophy; Methodology; Social sciences
Description: "Illustrated with vivid examples from Wittgenstein's woodcutters to witchcraft in Mexico and elsewhere, this book argues that the underlying methodological principle governing interpretive change is explanatory coherence."--BOOK JACKET.