3. Statistical Data
4. Causal Reasoning
5. Psychiatric Epidemiology
6. Positivism
7. Probabilistic Reasoning
8. Purposes of Social Research
9. 'Science' in the Social Sciences
11. Glossary
Understand the nature and scope of a controversy in the philosophy of the social sciences regarding the causal explanation of types of human conduct.
Appreciate the relevance of later Wittgenstein analyses to some central methodological issues in sociology and other social sciences.
Understand the limits as well as the strengths of the critique of the social sciences offered by Peter Winch and some of his contemporaries.
Grasp the relationships that obtain between certain methodological strategies and the purposes of investigators in selecting them.
Become clear about the concept of ‘science’ in the social sciences and the ways in which it is used and also sometimes misused.