Laws in the social sciences

The social sciences are often thought to be inferior to the natural sciences because they do not have laws. Bohman writes that “the social sciences have never achieved much in the way of predictive general laws—the hallmark of naturalistic knowledge—and so have often been denied the honorific status...

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Main Author: Greene, Catherine
Published: London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) 2017
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.740102