**Social science traditions**



|              ^ Heading 1            ^ Heading 2          ^
^ Tradition    | John Stuart Mill          | Wilhelm Dilthey        |
^ Timeline    | 1840s         | 1890s        |
^ Views    | [[Empiricism]], [[Methodological individualism]], [[Causal explanation]] as dominant methodological commitments | emphasized meaningfulness of human phenomena, //[[Verstehen]]//, primacy of lived experience in the interpretation of human affairs                    |
^ Perspectives    | [[Empirical]] and [[Causal]]          | [[Anti-empiricist]] and [[Hermeneutic]]     |



//Little, 1995//