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Sociology as a Natural Science

American Journal of Sociology, 1932
Natural science is differentiated from other modes of knowledge by method, not by subject matter. The revolutionary concept that social phenomena are natural phenomena and therefore can be studied by natural-science methodology is being rapidly accepted.
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Is Sociology a Natural Science?

American Journal of Sociology, 1949
Sociologists have always tried to shape their science according to the model of the natural sciences. Critics of sociology object that sociology is not yet and never will be a science of this type. By "natural science" they mean physics, though they do not say so.
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Sociologism in Philosophy of Science

Metaphilosophy, 1972
SummaryIn a nutshell, the present essay claims this: First, the classical problem of knowledge has recently shifted from, How do I know? to, How do we know?–from psychology to sociology. As a phenomenological matter this is a great improvement, as a solution to the problem of rationality it is erroneous and immoral.
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Sociology of Science Without the Sociology

Social Studies of Science, 1990
Whatever readers of Social Studies of Science think of Lawrence J. Prelli's attempt to bring together rhetoric and science studies, they will probably approve of his reading; the case studies on which he bases his argument are almost all by science studies researchers associated with this journal.
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