What is a (social) structural explanation?

• Autores: Sally Haslanger
• Localización: Philosophical Studies, ISSN-e 1573-0883, Vol. 173, Nº. 1, 2016, págs. 113-130
• Idioma: inglés
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  • 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.