Beyond Sociology's Tower of Babel: Reconstructing the Scientific Method

by Bernard S. Phillips

To look outside the discipline of sociology is to find little credibility given to the field as science. Bernard Phillips argues that we are learning to see ever more clearly the contradiction between scientific standards and what in fact has been achieved by sociology. Instead of knowledge based on the full range of our findings, we have separate pieces of knowledge located within the diverse areas of the discipline, and fads and fashions in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0202306666
• ISBN13: 9780202306667
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"