# Role of examples in social debate and research

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The piece asks whether examples of individual experience can explain social systems or whether those systems require analysis at their own level.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 17 May 2006

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## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 17 May 2006
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: social-research, examples, complex-systems, causality.

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