The Poverty of Historicism (Routledge Classics)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: March 29, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780415278454
First sentence: IN strong opposition to methodological naturalism in the field of sociology, historicism claims that some of the characteristic methods of physics cannot be applied to the social sciences, owing to the profound differences between sociology and physics.