The contrast between man's amazing ability to manipulate his world and his pitiful incompetence in managing his own affairs is now as commonplace as it is tragic. It is by rigorous devotion to scientific method that we have made our conquests over the material environment; it is obvious that this method is not normally applied to the field of relations of human beings, individual and collective. These are conducted in a quite different way, governed by a medley of primitive impulses set in a framework of a traditional morality that varies from place to place and age to age. In these matters science plays little part; yet more than a century has passed since Auguste Comte said that the rational reform of society must be brought about by the application of scientific method to social problems. It is, therefore, the first purpose of this essay to ask how far social problems might be tackled by the methods of science.
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Testament for Social Science (RLE Social Theory)
An Essay in the Application of Scientific Method to Human Problems
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INDEX
Ability, artistic, measurement of, 167
Absolutes, of religious morality, 132
Acquired characters, inheritance of, 100–1
Activity, directive, 136
Action, on partial knowledge, 60
Aesthetic experience, 172
Aesthetics, 6
Agnosticism, 97–8, 116
Aims, party, 59–60
Anthropocentrism, 118, 131
Anthropology, 2, 6, 12
social, 91, 191
Argument, verbal, 52–3
Aristode, 30, 88
Art, physical reactions to, 166
Arts, relation to sciences, 54–5
Asceticism, 145
Associations, 16–19
in social sciences, 20 ff.
Astrology, 51, 107
Augustine, St., 95
Bacon, 15
Barnes, Rt. Rev. E. W., 101, 112
Barth, Karl, 189
Behaviour, indeterminacy in, 20–1
recording of, 12
and sense-experience, 8–9
Benedict, Ruth, 148, 192
Bentham, 70
Bias, in sampling, 50
Biology, 6
analogies from, 72 ff.
and moral standards, 134 ff.
Blood feud, 127
Bronowski, 18
Butler, Samuel, 21
Butterfield, Herbert, 117
Campbell, Norman R., 7,15,110–21
Cantril, Hadley, 39
Cartwright, 49
Category, meaning of, 105–7
Causation, 15, 18, 21
Christ, 99–100
Christianity, 87, 101–2, 118, 132
Civilisations and individuals, confusion, 73 fF.
Clapham Committee, 45
Class structure of society, 82–4
Cohen, Morris R., 33
Comfort, Alex, 129
Commons, House of, speeches, 56
Communism, 189–90
Communist Manifesto, 84, 86
Complexity of situations, 22–3, 24
Comprehensiveness, party claims to, 64
Comte, A., 2
Conferences, verbalism at, 56
Conscienc...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Original Title Page
- Original Copyright Page
- Preface
- Table of Contents
- I. Introduction
- II. Scientific Method in the Social Sciences
- III. Pre-Scientific Mental Habits
- IV. Two Blind Alleys
- V. Science and Metaphysics
- VI. Science and Morals
- VII. Science and the Arts
- VIII. Conclusion
- Index
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