Twentieth Social Science History Association Conference

Nomothetic science and idiographic history in twentieth-century Americanist anthropology.

For over a century, Americanist anthropologists have argued about whether their discipline is a historical one or a scientific one. Proponents of anthropology as history have claimed that the lineages of human cultures are made up of unique events that cannot be generalized into laws. If no laws can be drawn, then anthropology cannot be a science. Proponents of anthropology as science have clai...

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Science and Social Research (CSSR)(Malaysia)

6164 Social Science History 24:3

Key features of reproductive behavior in China vary systematically through space and time. In this article we present an analysis of fertility change in regional space, using a 1% household sample from China’s 1990 population census. Elsewhere, we use the same data to analyze reproductive strategizing, but here we pursue the big picture with a straightforward analysis that takes reported births...

Science and social responsibility: a case history.

The only way I can approach this problem is at the personal level. I used to think that one could avoid involvement in the antisocial consequences of science simply by not working on any project that might be turned to evil or destructive ends. I have learned that things are not all that simple, and that almost any scientific finding can be perverted or twisted under appropriate societal pressu...

The Twentieth International Conference on Domain

The electronic Schrödinger equation describes the motion of N electrons under Coulomb interaction forces in a field of clamped nuclei and is of fundamental importance for our understanding of atoms and molecules. The solutions of this equation, the electronic wave functions, depend on 3N variables, three spatial dimensions for each electron. Approximating them is thus inordinately challenging, ...