I struggle with the whole idea of a social science. It is so dominated by theory and opinion and the empirical evidence tends to be weak - demographics and their related statistics and such like. It's too easily manipulated by dogmatic analysis. These kinds of disciplines call themselves sciences because they accrete a certain amount of 'objectivity' legitimacy from doing so, which they otherwise would not have, being largely subjective and opinion based. Am I wrong?
Thanks for sharing this, I had never heard of this method.
I struggle with the whole idea of a social science. It is so dominated by theory and opinion and the empirical evidence tends to be weak - demographics and their related statistics and such like. It's too easily manipulated by dogmatic analysis. These kinds of disciplines call themselves sciences because they accrete a certain amount of 'objectivity' legitimacy from doing so, which they otherwise would not have, being largely subjective and opinion based. Am I wrong?