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Review article

Theory and practice in the social sciences

Pages 90-121 | Published online: 17 Jan 2008

  • For an important elaboration of this view, see Lynd R.S. Knowledge for What! Princeton 1940 Also K. Mannheim: Man and Society in an Age of Reconstruction (London, 1940).
  • Walker , E.R. 1943 . From Economic Theory to Policy , University of Chicago Press .
  • Another recent manifestation of the same current is to be found in G. Myrdal's great study of the negro problem in the U.S.A.: An American Dilemma New York 1944 Appendix 2: Facts and Valuations in Social Science.
  • The Nature and Significance of Economic Science 40 – 40 . quoted Walker
  • Cf. Robbins The Nature and Significance of Economic Science , 1st edition 106 108
  • Hayek , F. 1944 . Scientism and the Study of Society . Economica , XI ( 41 ) in
  • For a similar point, see Hempel C.G. The Function of General Laws in History The Journal of Philosophy 1942 39 2
  • Cf. Parsons' essay on Sociological Elements in Economics Contemporary Social Theory Becker Barnes New York 1940 in
  • Robinson . Economics is a Serious Subject 10 – 10 . quoted by Walker, p. 80
  • Cf. Hayek Economica XI 43 quoted by Popper
  • Op. cit. 166 – 167 .
  • Quoted by Popper Economica XI 43
  • Social science prefers to urge that all the fruits of scholarly curiosity are improtant, that there is more than enough work to do in filling in the infinite odd bits of the jig-saw puzzle of the unknown, and that science has no criteria by which to allot priorities in importance 181 181 my italics
  • Myrdal , G. An American Dilemma (Appendix 2).
  • This point is made, in reference to Marxist notions of “class science”, by Eastman Max The Last Stand of Dialectical Materialism New York 1934 in

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