1.3 The Crisis Of Social Theory
Last modified 07/05/2008
| We can see, then, that the crystallization of scientism in many ways bypassed the Enlightenment critique of Newtonian fundamentalism, and the result was the ambiguous legacy of social theories as these arose in the nineteenth century attempts to create, for example, the discipline of sociology and its crises on the questions of values and objectivity, from Comte to Weber. The basic problem is simply that, as the Kantian revolution foretold, the methodology of the physical sciences was simply not equipped to handle the issue of social theories. A similar problem is undoubtedly the fate Darwinism, especially as this becomes a universal generalization at the foundation for all subsequent social science. If evolution doesn't happen according to the Darwinian scheme of things, then the whole development in its wake has been thrown out of whack. | ||
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