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Gaetano Mosca (1858–1941), Italian political and social scientist; Serge Moscovici, French psychologist and major influence in the study of social representations and social movements; Chantal Mouffe, Belgian post-Marxist theorist; Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927–2003), American sociologist, diplomat and politician; Radhakamal Mukerjee ...
He was a professor of history, sociology, and social science at the University of Michigan from 1969 to 1984 before becoming the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University. He has been described as "the founding father of 21st-century sociology" [1] and "one of the world's preeminent sociologists and historians."
Pages in category "Lists of social scientists" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Dunbar's number has become of interest in anthropology, evolutionary psychology, [12] statistics, and business management.For example, developers of social software are interested in it, as they need to know the size of social networks their software needs to take into account; and in the modern military, operational psychologists seek such data to support or refute policies related to ...
Weber believed that social scientists needed to avoid making value-judgements. Instead, he wanted social scientific research to be value-free. [ 151 ] This would give them objectivity, but it needed to be combined with an acknowledgement that their research connected with values in different ways. [ 152 ]
Social science and humanities have a mutual contempt for one another, the former looking down on the latter as unscientific, the latter regarding the former as philistine. […] The difference comes down to the fact that social science really wants to be predictive, meaning that man is predictable, while the humanities say that he is not. [18]
With the rise of the idea of quantitative measurement in the physical sciences, for example Lord Rutherford's famous maxim that any knowledge that one cannot measure numerically "is a poor sort of knowledge", the stage was set for the conception of the humanities as being precursors to "social science". In 1924, prominent social scientists ...
American women social scientists (7 C, 113 P) A. American Koreanists (26 P) American anthropologists (13 C, 614 P) American archaeologists (15 C, 388 P) C.