ABSTRACT
Any of these would provide a useful focus here. However, it is the
latter path-dependence approach or project that I shall be most concerned with, at least initially. Given that this ongoing, often explicitly methodological project appears to be the one that most straightforwardly overlaps with my own at the level of suggesting how social science might actually proceed, this seems the prima facie most sensible focus to take. In fact this adopted focus is doubly useful. Certainly it helps illustrate aspects of social reproduction that I take to be fundamental. But I do have some reservations with aspects of the path-dependence project, at least as it is sometimes interpreted. And by considering these in due course I am afforded the opportunity to re-emphasise and illustrate an aspect of the explanatory framework developed in the previous chapters that I take to be particularly significant.
