Objectivity in Social Science

✍ Scribed by Frank Cunningham

Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Year: 1973
Tongue: English
Leaves: 164
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Objectivity in Social Science combats the widespread opinion that objective inquiry is impossible in the social sciences by drawing together and exhibiting the weaknesses of arguments, taken from various concentrations.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Chapter One. Objectivism and anti-objectivism
Chapter Two. The nature and history of science
Chapter Three. Linguistic relativism
Chapter Four. Perceptual relativism
Chapter Five. The social-scientific subject matter
Chapter Six. Postscript on the morality of objectivity
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Selected Index

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