Decline of Ideology
A Dissent and an Interpretation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3765347 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph La Palombara (Yale University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1966 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-16 |
| Publication date | 1966-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1953801 |
| OpenAlex | W1411403669 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
| References cited | 7 |
With increasing frequency and self-assurance, the scientific objectivity of American social science is proclaimed by some of its prominent practitioners. Various explanations are offered for the onset of social science's Golden Age, but central to most of them is the claim that modern social science has managed to resolve Mannheim's Paradox, namely, that in the pursuit of the truth the social scientist himself is handicapped by the narrow focus and distortions implicit in ideological thought. Presumably, the social scientist can now probe any aspect of human organization and behavior as dispassionately as physical scientists observe the structure of the atom or chemical reactions. For this reason, it is claimed by some that the ideologically liberated social scientists-at least in the United States-can expect to be co-opted into the Scientific Culture, or that segment of society that is presumably aloof from and disdainful toward the moralistic speculations and the tender-heartedness of the literary intellectuals.The behaviorial "revolution" in political science may have run its course, but it has left in its wake both obscurantist criticisms of empiricism, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, an unquestioning belief in "science." Quite often the latter belief is not merely anti-historical and anti-philosophical but also uncritical about the extent to which empirical observations can be colored by the very orientation to values that one seeks to control in rigorous empirical research.The claims of modern social scientists are greatly buttressed by the views of Talcott Parsons
Dissent · Empiricism · Epistemology · Ideology · Objectivity (philosophy · Political science · Politics · Scientific progress · Social science · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Law · Philosophy
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Sociotropic Politics
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| Unique citing works | 28 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,47 |
| Citation span | 1966 - 2016 (51) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |