The social sciences are the most difficult of all the sciences
to supply with sufficient reference sources and especially
with adequate bibliographic tools. This difficulty, of course,
stems from the intrinsic difference between the subject matter
and literature of the social sciences and that of the natural
sciences. In the latter the elements of measurement and experimentation
are comparatively stable and controllable. But
the material of the social sciences is man; man and his behavior
in society; man who changes and reacts to change.
The behavior of man cannot be produced at will under laboratory
conditions. It can only be observed and recorded as
it happens, and it is this written record with which the social
scientist must deal. So enormous and diverse is the record
that the social scientist studies only a segment of it, that which
reveals man's economic behavior or his political behavior,
for instance.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Allerton Park Institute (4th : 1957)
ISSN
0536-4604
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
Permalink
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