Sociology
Subtitle: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: April 10, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780192853806
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.