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The document discusses whether social sciences can achieve objectivity. It explores the perspectives of prominent social scientists including Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Auguste Comte, and Robert Pinker on this issue. While objectivity is easier for natural sciences using numbers and statistics, these thinkers believed social sciences can be objective by maintaining detachment and treating society as an objective "thing". However, Weber noted social sciences must also account for human characteristics like m
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- Golli Quintanal
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- EN