
This Brief draws on the work of French sociologist Jean-Michel Berthelot to propose a version of explanatory pluralism. It distinguishes six explanatory or intelligibility schemes found in modern social sciences: actantial, functional, hermeneutic, structural, dialectic, and causal schemes. The Brief deals with each explanatory scheme in a separate chapter, each being structured into two parts: three examples of scholarly works applying a given scheme and discussion of the characteristics of the given scheme. The last chapter proposes a synthesis.
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Chapter 1: Introduction. - Chapter 2: The Actantial Schema: Action as the basis for explanation. - Chapter 3: The Functional Schema: Explaining through consequences. - Chapter 4: The Hermeneutic Schema: Explaining through interpretation. - Chapter 5: The Structural Schema: The social context as an explanation. - Chapter 6: The Dialectical Schema: Explaining by means of contradiction. - Chapter 7: The Causal Schema: The `scientific approach. - Chapter 8: The role of explanatory schemas in the inference process. - Chapter 9: Conclusion: From science in the making to ready-made science.
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