1. What is a (social) structural explanation?
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Haslanger, Sally
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SOCIAL structure , *EXPLANATION , *INDIVIDUALISM , *NORMATIVITY (Ethics) , *SOCIAL theory , *PSYCHOLOGY - Abstract
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 structural explanation and sketches an account of social structure that connects social structures with structural explanation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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