structural explanation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofstructuralandexplanation
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structural
adjective
uk/ˈstrʌk.tʃər.əl/us/ˈstrʌk.tʃɚ.əl/
relating to the way in which parts of a system or object ...
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explanation
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌek.spləˈneɪ.ʃən/us/ˌek.spləˈneɪ.ʃən/
the details or reasons that someone gives to make something clear or easy ...
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Individual style may be consigned to the psychological blackbox of quirk and creativity, but collective style demands a more accessible,structuralexplanation.
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Yet one factor that the authors of the books under review do not address-the demographic factor-may offer a competingstructuralexplanation.
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It seems unlikely that a purelystructuralexplanationcan be found for differences such as these.
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Astructuralexplanationtells a causal story that connects aggregate regularities.
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How do members manage to combine typical experience withstructuralexplanation, vague similarities with practical motives?
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Eachstructuralexplanationuses a causal relation between two variables and a contrast in the cause-variable in order to explain a contrast in the effect-variable.
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I therefore suggest that anystructuralexplanationof voting behaviour and left-right position should be reformulated as the product of a wide variety of social characteristics.
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We begin with an example of such a discrete,structuralexplanationwith regard to the spillover effect, then consider two notions of the dimensionality for reading models.
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The higher life satisfaction reported in the separate households by the two generations may have astructuralexplanation: the multi-generational living arrangement was a response to socio-economic conditions.
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As structural explanations are not inconsistent with ontological individualism, we conclude that both structural and individualist explanations are acceptable and indispensable.
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When, in turn, structural explanations fail, it is situational variables that are decisive.
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Structural explanations allow for men and women to vote similarly, but for different reasons.
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In this example we must be aware that the causal claims in the structural explanations can be justified without reference to the individual ontological level.
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This same point can be made with respect to structural explanations.
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Perceived instrumental support exchanges in relationships between elderly parents and their adult children : normative and structural explanations.
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The book blends literary criticism with a critique of the political economy of ageing, and shows that ageist tendencies in the former echo the structural explanations of the latter.
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The (methodological) claim that structural explanations are more efficient is compatible with the (ontological) claim that the causal claims that are used in them often ' 'presuppose' ' a rational actor story.
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