Quotes About Social science

I was graduated in 1940 with a degree of Bachelor of Science in Social Science but a major in Mathematics, a paradoxical combination that was prognostic of my future interests.

Social scientists in the 1970s broadly accepted two ideas about human nature. First, people are generally rational, and their thinking is normally sound. Second, emotions such as fear, affection, and hatred explain most of the occasions on which people depart from rationality. Our article challenged both assumptions without discussing them directly.

the dominant ways of thinking about culture and cultural change are flawed, for they are based on both specious social science and problematic theology.

As everybody knows, money is getting very short in Britain, university departments are closing, all kinds of studies are being cut. This type of a science has been badly affected, often the first to be cut -- yet I have just read that in various universities, departments studying psychology, social science and so forth have been reprieved, because of their usefulness to industry. In other words, they are proving their value where it counts.

Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

all real progress in social science has been rooted in the courage to say things that are, in the final analysis, slightly ridiculous:

But Hayek is also one of the handful of social scientists who (along with his teacher Ludwig von Mises) demonstrated more than sixty years ago why the socialist system could not work and, thus, why it would eventually collapse, as it did in 1989.

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

a major charge of the argument advanced here is that most social science survey findings are not scientific enough. They violate one's common everyday breeze-tasting sense of life precisely because they do not meet the standards of validity, reliability, and comprehensiveness that the best scientists have always insisted on

We need a revolution in academia, with every social science attempting to understand the causes of happiness.

Instrumentalism a la John Dewey follows pragmatism in general, but especially emphasizes that the validity or utility of an idea — we have gotten rid of truth, remember? — derives from the instruments used in testing the idea, and will change as instruments improve. Like the other theories discussed thus far, Instrumentalism has had more direct influence on social science (and educational theory) than on physical science, although vastly influenced by physical science.

General Semantics has influenced recent psychology and social science greatly but has had little effect on physical sciences or education and virtually no effect on the problems it attempted to alleviate — i.e., the omnipresence of unacknowledged bigotry and unconscious prejudice in most human evaluations.

I had always had a deep interest in social science, history. So even when I was in high school, I was debating, and in college debating, and interested in contemporary events.

One of the first things I learned when I began teaching courses in critical thinking in 1974 was that those of us trained in philosophy needed to supplement our philosophical training with the study of various cognitive, perceptual, and affective biases or illusions. We had a lot to learn from the social scientists if we were to teach our students to think critically. Identifying fallacies, learning to test deductive arguments for validity, and the like would not be enough.

Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science is little more than observation putting on airs.

There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.

The expectation of substantive unity between natural science and social science has faded.... Gone is the cosmic intention of placing man in the universe.

My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.

As much as we think of performance management as numeric and thus perfectly quantifiable, it is as much a product of context and social science as the products we design and develop.

I believe that it is the task of social science to produce nuanced and people-centered forms of knowledge, correcting asymmetries of information and helping to promote, to the best of our ability, informed consent, human protection, and safety in medical and research settings.

Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.