What is a (social) structural explanation?

A philosophically useful account of social structure must accommodate the fact that social structures play an important role in structural explanation. But what is a structural explanation? How do structural explanations function in the social sciences? This paper offers a way of thinking about stru...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Haslanger, Sally
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Springer-Verlag 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97040