Exploring research design in Social science

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Philosophy of Social Science

What is social science?

	Heading 1	Heading 2
Tradition	John Stuart Mill	Wilhelm Dilthey
Timeline	1840s	1890s
Views	Empiricism, Methodological individualism, Causal explanation as dominant methodological commitments	emphasized meaningfulness of human phenomena, proposed method of Verstehen and primacy of lived experience in the interpretation of human affairs
Perspectives	Empirical and Causal	Anti-empiricist and Hermeneutic
Supported by	Political scientists	Interpretive sociologist and Anthropologists
Liked by	Analytical philosophers	Continental philosophers

Little, 1995