Methodology in the Natural and the Social Sciences
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2200830 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E B Wilson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1940 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 655-668 |
| Publication date | 1940-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/218444 |
| OpenAlex | W2087494138 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
By the time young persons go to college they seem to be already differentiated with respect to their interest both in subject matter and in method of approach to an extent sufficient somewhat to condition their educability. The emotional appeal of the social siences cannot be disregarded as a selective factor in drawing students into them or as a psychological factor limiting the attractiveness of the scientific method. Whether this differentiation and selectivity are due to differences in kind of intellect or to differences in personality are unanswered questions which may ultimately be importan in any basic discussion of methodology. Particular methods or techniques are universally available though not necessarily universally applicable; but the general principles of detachment and consensus in the study of observed facts seem indispensable to whatever may be called science, whether natural or social
Appeal · Attractiveness · Epistemology · Intellect · Limiting · Natural (archaeology) · Personality · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Subject (documents) · Subject matter · Animal and Plant Science Education · Computer Science · Education and Critical Thinking Development · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Science Education and Pedagogy · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1973 - 2018 (46) |
| Highly cited | No |