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"George C. Homans addresses a number of controversial ideas to his colleagues in the social sciences as he sets about to ask how scientific these sciences are and to discuss their problems. He believes, in fact, that they form a single science, sharing the same subject matter and employing the same body of general explanatory principles. And contrary to the opinion of most scholars, he argues that they do not differ radically from the physical and biological sciences and should become even more
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- George Caspar Homans
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Published
- 1967
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780156654258
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Social Science, Philosophy, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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