Erotetic Contextualism, Data-Generating Procedures, and Sociological Explanations of Social Mobility

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 38-54

  Khalifa, Kareem ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Context; Erotetic; Explanation; Social science; Why question

Indexed keywords

EID: 2342593955     PISSN: 00483931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0048393103260774     Document Type: Review

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