Sociology

In this brief and forthright essay Steve Bruce reasserts the value of sociology as a social science, a way of understanding the human condition that grounds its explanations in reliable observations of the real world.

First sentence: For as long as we have been impressed by our understanding and control of the material world, scientists and philosophers of science have tried to specify just what distinguishes successful modern science from such dead ends as trying to produce gold from stone or reading our future in the stars.

Year

1999

Language

English

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Editions

1

Pages

120

ISBN

9780192853806

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