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Funnily enough that’s actually one of the reasons why I have always been fascinated by social science. Not as something where the results and methods are fascin
by ugh 15y ago
Funnily enough that’s actually one of the reasons why I have always been fascinated by social science. Not as something where the results and methods are fascinating but rather as something where much is to be done and all problems are hard to solve.
During the last century empiricism’s role in the social science has been growing but social science as an empirical science is still relatively young and, I think more importantly, it’s not really dominated by empiricism the same way, say, physics is.
It’s still necessary to adapt and find methods.
- gospelwut 15y agoI think, in general, I find some of academic's dogma a bit off-putting. I always approach things in the most classical sense--that is, everything is relatively true. Not to dismiss empirical data though. For example, people seem entrenched in saying dark matter is X or will do Y, but even people who helped discover its possibility say to be cautious of making such statements. When people come out and say it's not definitive in its existence (yet), they tend to get lambasted. I know there is always politics and evangelizing in every human situation, but my childhood notions of a pure method/approach seem a bit jaded now. Perhaps, some of the softer sciences need to study inter-academic hard science ;)