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The New Scholasticism and the Study of Politics*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

Barrington Moore Jr
Barrington Moore Jr
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Department of Social Relations, Russian Research Center at Harvard University
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World Politics , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , October 1953 , pp. 122 - 138
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1953

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l A logician, such as Hans Reichenbach, however, argues that any proposition is a probability statement and thus comes to the opposite conclusion that some form of the notion of chance has universal applicability. See his Experience and Prediction, Chicago, 1938.

2 The reader may wish to judge for himself by examining some of the formalist writings that attempt empirical application, i.e., particularly the last three essays on political matters in Parsons, , Essays in Sociological Theory Pure and Applied, Glencoe, III., 1949Google Scholar, or Levy, , The Family Revolution in Modern China, Cambridge, Mass., 1949.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 Power and Society, New Haven, 1950, pp. 190–91.

4 In this connection, see Rostow, W. W., “Toward a General Theory of Action,” World Politics, v (July 1953), pp. 538–43.Google Scholar

5 “Personality and Social Structure,” in Stanton, A. H. and Perry, S. E., eds., Personality and Political Crisis, Glencoe, III, 1951.Google Scholar

6 For a convenient summary of varying viewpoints, see Kroeber, A. L. and Kluckhohn, Clyde, Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions, Papers of the Peabody Museum, Harvard University, XLVII, No. 1 (1952), pp. 115–24.Google Scholar