Must sociology be qualitative? |
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Authors: | Evan Fales |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Philosophy, University of Iowa, 52242 Iowa City, Iowa |
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Abstract: | This article addresses the question of whether sociology can in principle become a quantitative science. I distinguish several senses in which a contrast between quantitative and qualitative science might be understood. I focus on the central — and traditional — sense: can sociology become a nomological science, in the way physics is? I argue that it cannot, on the ontological ground that the determinants of human actions cannot be analyzed in purely causal terms. In the article I try to characterize this difference. |
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