The Need for a Sociology and Psychology of Social Science and Scientists
Author(s)
Myrdal, Gunnar
Abstract
In this chapter Myrdal compares the social sciences to the natural sciences by illustrating how the natural sciences focus on the universal and unchangeable relationship between facts while social science deals with the behaviour of human beings, which varies widely and changes all the time. He reinforces that the social sciences are still scientific in that they are searching for true knowledge about man and his society.
