The Explanation Concept in the Social Sciences

Abstract

This article emphasizes the importance which the social science assigns to think the theory of explanation. Beyond the sociological tradition that ratifies without reserves the legitimacy of the classic theory of the explanation or that accepts without reserves the methodological individualism, this article assumes a epistemological reflexion aiming to examine the consequences of accepting one or other conception. We will try in these pages an approximation to the last developments that such question has deserved, fundamentally, of the British analytic neomarxists.