Author

Publication

1999 - Oxford University Press, Oxford, England

Language

English

Word Count

30,000 words, Guess

Page Count

120 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL7384532M
  • ISBN-139780192853806
  • ISBN-100192853805
  • OCLC Control Number61112824
  • LibraryThing103967
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  • Goodreads595596

Classifications

  • DDC301
  • LCCHM585 .B78 1999

Description

In this brief and forthright essay Steve Bruce reasserts the value of sociology as a social science, a way of understanding the human condition that grounds its explanations in reliable observations of the real world.

First Sentence

For as long as we have been impressed by our understanding and control of the material world, scientists and philosophers of science have tried to specify just what distinguishes successful modern science from such dead ends as trying to produce gold from stone or reading our future in the stars.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Very short introductions

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