Author: Gellner, Ernest
Title: Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences
Description: 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.

Keywords: Philosophy of Science, Social Sciences, Sociology, Anthropology, Sociological Theory, Malinowski, Structuralism, Structuralist, Evans-Pritchard