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Science in the Making : Explanation in the Social Sciences
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This Brief draws on the work of French sociologist Jean-Michel Berthelot to propose a version of explanatory pluralism. It distinguishes six explanatory or intelligibility schemes found in modern social sciences: actantial, functional, hermeneutic, structural, dialectic, and causal schemes. The Brief deals with each explanatory scheme in a separate chapter, each being structured into two parts: three examples of scholarly works applying a given scheme and discussion of the characteristics of the given scheme. The last chapter proposes a synthesis.
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- ISBN-13: 9783032227546
- ISBN-10: 3032227542
- Publisher: Springer
- Publish Date: June 2026
- Page Count: 105
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