Author: Paul Diesing
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351500473
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Social scientists are often vexed because their work does not satisfy the criteria of "scientific" methodology developed by philosophers of science and logicians who use the natural sciences as their model. In this study, Paul Diesing defines science not by reference to these arbitrary norms delineated by those outside the field but in terms of norms implicit in what social scientists actually do in their everyday work.