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Scientific Method in Social Studies1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Extract

There is a short answer to the question, whether scientific method can be applied to the study of the social relations of men, or, whether social sciences are possible; it is that these sciences exist and are in fact among the most ancient. Their success has perhaps been less startling than that of the physical sciences and they have perhaps been pursued with less enthusiasm. But there are reasons for this inherent in the nature of the social sciences, as I shall try to show.

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1945

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Footnotes

1

Herbert Spencer Lecture, Oxford, May 14, 1943.

References

1 Herbert Spencer Lecture, Oxford, May 14, 1943.