TY - JOUR
AU - Knorr-Cetina, Karin D.
AB - Phil. SOC. Sci. 11 (1981) 335-359 Social and Scientific Method or What Do We Make of the Distinction Between the Natural and the Social Sciences? KARIN D. KNORR-CETINA, Sociology, University of Pennsylvania Es diimmert jetzt vielleicht in fiinf, sechs Kopfen, dass Physik auch nur eine Welt-Auslegung und Zurechtlegung . . . und nicht eine Welt-Erklarung ist. -Friedrich Nietzsche 1. INTRODUCTION: THE TWO SCIENCES Ever since the rise of the social sciences, social science methodology has been a much disputed issue among social scientists and philosophers of the social sciences.’ Much like the history of social theory, the history of social science methodology is a history of controversy, and this tradition is quite naturally renewed with every appearance of a new conception of social life. Most recently, methodological discussions have centered around the discrediting of received ‘positivistic’ proce- dures by showing their essential inadequacy in dealing with the social world. In these discussions, established methodological procedures such as survey research or laboratory experimentation were linked to a model of scientific method identified with the natural sciences, and new social methodologies continuously emphasized their rejection of this model. In fact, new rules of social science method have been developed, displayed and 
TI - Social and Scientific Method or What Do We Make of the Distinction Between the Natural and the Social Sciences?
JF - Philosophy of the Social Sciences
DO - 10.1177/004839318101100304
DA - 1981-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/social-and-scientific-method-or-what-do-we-make-of-the-distinction-Gl2dJD2r3S
SP - 335
EP - 359
VL - 11
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
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