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marxism and social/historical explanation  

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  • This entry reviews Marx's theory of social and historical explanation and his own methodological stance vis-à-vis what counts as “science,” explains what is distinctive about it, shows the way the theory was subsequently developed or altered, and ends by introducing one of the most formidable critiques and an equally powerful defense of it in the 20th century. Introduction Explanation as a distinctive methodological concept and problem was posed during the development of the social sciences in the later 19th and early 20th centuries. [Source: Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences; Marxism and Social/Historical Explanation]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-DCJHWTRK-4

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