What is a (social) structural explanation?

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Haslanger, Sally
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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.
Date issued
2015-01
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97040
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Journal
Philosophical Studies
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Citation
Haslanger, Sally. “What Is a (social) Structural Explanation?” Philosophical Studies (January 9, 2015).
Version: Author's final manuscript
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0031-8116
1573-0883
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