Generalists Versus Specialists in Social Science

The theorist can never foresee what the experimenter will find when his range is extended to include fields at present inaccessible."Man behaved economically, politically, and otherwise long before social scientists theorized about his behavior. In fact, present day social science is of comparatively recent origin, being the product of that progressive specialization which began in the eighteenth century.This specialization has produced diverse problems, with one of which the present paper is concerned. The problem in question is suggested by the central thesis of this paper: that although an economist (or political scientist) must delimit what he studies qua economist (or political scientist), his understanding of economic (or political) behavior is governed by his understanding of human behavior as a whole. While this paper was written primarily from the point of view of an economist to illustrate how psychology and noneconomic social science may contribute to our understanding of economic behavior, it also suggests how political science may draw upon the disciplines treated and indicates how economists envisage a number of questions of fundamental significance to students of government

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• Cybernetic and General-System Approaches to Urban and Regional Research

  Open Access•J Brian Mcloughlin, Judith N Webster•Environment and Planning A…•1970

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• Buchanan’s constitutional political economy

  Open Access•Alain Marciano•Constitutional Political Economy•2008

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• Cross-Disciplinarization

  Open Access•Steve Jacob•American Journal of Evaluation•2008

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• American Political Science, Liberalism, and the Invention of Political Theory

  Open Access•John G Gunnell•American Political Science Review•1988

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• Personality in nature, society, and culture.

  Clyde Kluckhohn•Personality in nature, society,…•1953

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• The Psychology of Social Classes

  Richard Centers•The Psychology of Social Classes•1949

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• Structure of Social Action

  Talcott Parsons•Structure of Social Action•1967

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• The Psychological Frontiers of Society

  Abram Kardiner, Cora Du Bois et al.•Psychological Frontiers of Society•1945

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• Human behavior and the principle of least effort.

  No authorship indicated No authorship indicated, No authorship indicated•Journal of Consulting Psychology•1949

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• Free Society

  Frank H Knight•The Philosophical Review•1948

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• Lerner on the Economics of Control

  Milton Friedman•Journal of Political Economy•1947

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• The Theory of Monopolistic Competition

  Morris A Copeland•Journal of Political Economy•1934

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• On the Rationale of Group Decision-making

  Duncan Black•Journal of Political Economy•1948

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• Psychological Aspects of Economic Thought

  Walter A Weisskopf•Journal of Political Economy•1949

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• The Significance of Modern Empiricism for History and Economics

  Open Access•Abbott Payson Usher•The Journal of Economic History•1949

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• The Logic of the Sciences and the Humanities

  Wm Bruce Cameron, F S C Northrop•American Sociological Review•1948

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• Social Theory and Social Structure

  N S Timasheff•Thought•1950

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• Income satisfaction and income aspiration

  Richard Centers, Hadley Cantril•Journal of Abnormal & Social…•1946

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• The dimensions of culture patterns by factorization of national characters

  Raymond B Cattell•Journal of Abnormal & Social…•1949

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• A Challenge to Political Scientists

  Open Access•William Foote Whyte•American Political Science Review•1943

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