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Sociology as a Population Science.

John Goldthorpe is one of Britain’s most eminent sociologists and a strong advocate of quantitative sociology. In this concise and accessible book, he provides a new rationale for recent developments in sociology which focus on establishing and explaining probabilistic regularities in human populations. Through these developments, Goldthorpe shows how sociology has become more securely placed w...

Kant , Kuhn , and the Rationality of Science

†Send requests for reprints to the author, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Goodbody Hall 130, Indiana University, 1011 East Third Street, Bloomington, IN 47405–7005; e-mail: [email protected]. *This paper first appeared in Michael Heidelberger and Friedrich Stadler (eds.) History of Philosophy of Science: New Trends and Perspectives (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2002) Kluwer Academic ...

Sociology as a Strict Science

Sociology and philosophy seem to have this in common: in spite of notable progress in special fields, the discipline as a whole lacks unity and fails to accumulate knowledge. Both disciplines are split into separate schools between which there exist no clearly defined relations and no notable increase of insight. Thus after an auspicious beginning Pitirim Sorokin’s (1927, 1942, 1947) attempt to...

Merton's Sociology of Science: The First and the Last Sociology of Science?

Merton the founder of the sociology of science Even his enemies admit that Merton is the founder of the sociology of science. When he published his classic Science, Technology, and Society in Seventeenth-Centiiry England in 1938. the sociology of science was not a recognized field. Fifty years later, an abundance of programs of instruction and centers of research in social studies of science an...

Science and Sociology of Science: Beyond War and Peace