Exploring research design in Social science

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Social science traditions

	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, Verstehen, primacy of lived experience in the interpretation of human affairs
Perspectives	Empirical and causal	anti-empricist and hermeneutic

Little, 1995