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On the scope and limits of generalizations in the social sciences
Synthese, 1993This article disputes the common view that social science explanations depend on discovery of lawlike generalizations from which descriptions of social outcomes can be derived. It distinguishes between governing and phenomenal regularities, and argues that social regularities are phenomenal rather than governing.
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Social science studies get a ‘generous’ test
Science, 2018New replication effort aimed to detect effects overstated in the original reports.
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Agent_Zero: Toward Neurocognitive Foundations for Generative Social Science
2014This book introduces a new theoretical entity: Agent_Zero. This software individual, or “agent,” is endowed with distinct emotional/affective, cognitive/deliberative, and social modules. Grounded in contemporary neuroscience, these internal components interact to generate observed, often far-from-rational, individual behavior.
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Trends in social science in general education in college
Peabody Journal of Education, 1963Some of the subjects that are included in the social sciences have been in existence as long as the historical period of mankind. When colleges began to develop around 1200, their curricula contained courses in history and religion. In the seventeenth century, Comenius, the Moravian bishop and reformer, included courses in theology, history, government,
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Landscape in the world of social sciences: general introduction
2007[Departement_IRSTEA]GT [TR1_IRSTEA]RURAMEN ...
Cavailhès, Jean, Vollet, Dominique
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The Need for General Laws in the Social Sciences
Science, 1951J. J. Brown, E. W. Leaver
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Explorations in General Theory in Social Science
Revista española de la opinión pública, 1977I. C. F. +4 more
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General Conclusion: What Can Social Science Practitioners Learn from Philosophies of Science?
2019This volume was born in a six-semester collective teaching effort in Norway, but its implications go far beyond the mundane expectations of a “mandatory course” on philosophy of science to any cohort of social science aspirants for Ph.D. degrees. What is at stake in our twenty-first century is the new nature of knowledge construction in the social ...
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General Introductory Courses in the Social Sciences
American Sociological Review, 1942Earl S. Johnson, Leland C. DeVinney
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