By James B. Rule
This paintings assaults questions that experience lengthy afflicted social scientists--questions of the cumulative nature of social inquiry. Does the data generated by way of the research of social, political, and monetary existence develop extra accomplished through the years? Do modern social scientists in any significant feel be aware of greater than their highbrow ancestors approximately such perennial issues because the origins of struggle and peace, or the factors of financial development, or the forces shaping social stratification, or origins of civil upheaval? those questions visit the center of social scientists' soul-searching to whether they're certainly engaged in "science."
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