Psychological Factors Clearly great differences in philosophy, sociology, and engineering students in terms of values, ideals, attitudes, and conceptions about their role in society. Sociologists differ in their own personal and characteristic approach to science. No two do research in precisely the same way. Some rigidly hold to way learned in graduate school, some are flexible. Sociologist tend to have more intense social idealism than other majors.
Research can be by an individual or by a team.
He found that systems like empiricism, rationalism, and mysticism ebbed and flowed. What is accepted as a criteria of truth in one time is not in another time. What is viewed as overwhelming evidence in one time is seen as insignificant in another. Still, there is objective truth. We just may not see it.