Progress in the natural and social sciences: A reply to wallace
Abstract
In my contribution to the June 1994 special issue of Sociological Forum, What's Wrong With Sociology? I try to show how sociology's failure to make the kind of progress characteristic of natural sciences, such as physics, is a result in part of differences in the type of phenomena studied and the fact that sociologists are more likely than physicists to use noncognitive criteria in selecting both their research problems and the solutions to...
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Title
Progress in the natural and social sciences: A reply to wallace
Published Date
Jun 1, 1995
Journal
Volume
10
Issue
2
Pages
319 - 323
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