How to explain oppression: Criteria of adequacy for normative explanatory theories
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Oppression is a kind of social injustice suffered by group of people affecting the society widely and deeply. The explanatory theories of normative concepts and set of criteria of adequacy offered in four categories, ontological, theoretical, pragmatic and moral are analyzed.
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0048-3931
Year: 2005
Analysis, Oppression (Psychology), Rational choice theory
Publication Name: Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0048-3931
Year: 2005
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Social mechanisms, casual inference, and the policy relevance of social science
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The article seeks to examine the necessity of social mechanisms in establishing the policy relevance of casual claims.
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0048-3931
Year: 2007
Health, Educatn & Welfare Programs, Administration of Human Resource Programs, Social policy
Publication Name: Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0048-3931
Year: 2007
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