Political sciences : (Record no. 28954)

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Classification number 320.01 Str
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Personal name Stretton, Hugh.
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Title Political sciences :
Remainder of title general principles of selection in social science and history
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Basic Books
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1969
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Extent 453 p.
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Summary, etc. This book is about the mixtures of knowledge, imagination and persuasion to be found in the work of historians and social scientists. They are influential people these days. They advise and staff govern ments and other institutions and in rich countries they help to educate almost everybody. Most of them teach more than they dis cover. Their work wants watching, for its increasing social effect.<br/><br/>Obviously, their values affect their work. Facts are facts, but theories order them and explanations select them. The political and professional values of the scientists affect these selections, which also get political direction from technical choices of method. Some never theless try purge the values from the work, and attempt other irrational imitations of the forms of physical science. These efforts are called by their critics 'scientistic'. 'Scientism' flourishes in sociology like cargo cult in Melanesia, invoking magical plenty wherever conventional production is scantiest.<br/><br/>Strict social scientists like to search for the regular, measurable, general and objective facts of social life. Will those principles of selection net much useful understanding of a life which is complex, changing, and sometimes perhaps freely chosen? Softer social scientists think not. What is the difference between the strict scientific methods and their softer rivals? Most of the rivals would allow practical aims and social valuations to guide the detail of the research. Some such intrusion of values is inevitable, but strict scientists keep trying to exclude them, by increasingly curious principles of selection. The worst offenders when misused, sometimes with devastating effect, are various rules of objectivity. These were meant to make observation accurate. They are misapplied to the different business of selecting concepts and identities and classes, and causes and effects.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Political science
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