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The IDEA of a Social Science: And its Relation to Philosophy, Second Edition
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THE IDEA OF
A SOCIAL SCIENCE
and its Relation to Philosophy
SECOND EDITION
by
PETER WINCH
LONDON
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First published in Great Britain 1958
by Routledge & Kegan Paul
and in the United States of America
by Humanities Press International, Inc.,
Atlantic Highlands, NJ 07716
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003.
Second impression 1960
Third impression (with some corrections) 1963
Fourth impression 1965
Fifth impression 1967
Sixth impression 1970
Seventh impression 1971
Eighth impression 1973
Ninth impression 1976
Tenth impression 1977
Eleventh impression 1980
Second edition published 1990 by Routledge in Great Britain and
Humanities Press International, Inc.
in the United States of America
© Peter Winch 1958, 1990
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or
reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical,
or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including
photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or
retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN 0-203-01449-9 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-16090-8 (Adobe eReader Format)
ISBN 0 415-05431-1 (Print Edition)
CONTENTS
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
ix
I. PHILOSOPHICAL BEARINGS
1. Aims and Strategy
1
2. The Underlabourer Conception of
Philosophy
3
3. Philosophy and Science
7
4. The Philosopher’s Concern with Language
10
5. Conceptual and Empirical Enquiries
15
6. The Pivotal Role of Epistemology in
Philosophy
18
7. Epistemology and the Understanding of
Society
21
8. Rules: Wittgenstein’s Analysis
24
9. Some Misunderstandings of Wittgenstein
33
II. THE NATURE OF MEANINGFUL
BEHAVIOUR
1. Philosophy and Sociology
40
2. Meaningful Behaviour
45
3. Activities and Precepts
51
4. Rules and Habits
57
5. Reflectiveness
62
v
vi
CONTENTS
III. THE SOCIAL STUDIES AS SCIENCE
1. J.S.Mill’s ‘Logic of the Moral Sciences’
66
2. Differences in Degree and Differences in
Kind
71
3. Motives and Causes
75
4. Motives, Dispositions and Reasons
80
5. The Investigation of Regularities
83
6. Understanding Social Institutions
86
7. Prediction in the Social Studies
91
IV. THE MIND AND SOCIETY
1. Pareto: Logical and Non-Logical Conduct
95
2. Pareto: Residues and Derivations
103
3. Max Weber: Verstehen and Causal
Explanation
111
4. Max Weber: Meaningful Action and
Social Action
116
V. CONCEPTS AND ACTIONS
1. The Internality of Social Relations
121
2. Discursive and Non-Discursive ‘Ideas’
128
3. The Social Sciences and History
131
4. Concluding Remark
136
BIBLIOGRAPHY
137
INDEX
141

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