He joined normative to social-scientific concerns.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography'] Reference

Note 42: The social-scientific literature on male bonding is extensive and varied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83] Reference

So let's review the main features of Rudner's representation of social-scientific knowledge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neo-positivist philosophy of social science] Reference

Would they be willing to accept this secondary status as handmaidens to "social-scientific critique"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Genre Fiction] Reference

One social-scientific survey found that they comprised more than ninety percent of the Los Angeles counterculture. 59.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83] Reference

From a social-scientific point of view, language is a medium for coordinating action, although not the only such medium.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jürgen Habermas] Reference

Two different reasons, however, suggest some relation between the philosophical debate and the social-scientific inquiry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economic Analysis of Law] Reference

First of all, I just can't accept that "social-scientific critique" and "cultural expression" have "too often remained separate.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Genre Fiction] Reference

He did not, however, construct a conception of social epistemology with very definite philosophical or social-scientific contours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Social Epistemology] Reference

The debate about it is not simply about the social-scientific evidence, although that is surely an important part of the discussion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dan Quayle Was Right] Reference

These ideas are not my own and I am not saying that they are accurate from a social-scientific perspective - but that is another question.    From Wordnik.com.  [Susan Brownell: Why Can't the Chinese Authorities Allow a Little Space for Protests During the Olympics?] Reference

Like many liberal critics of testing over the years, Davis and Havighurst shared with the believers in g an orderly social-scientific mind-set.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Sorting] Reference

There are, however, forms of social-scientific explanation with more active adherents that methodological individualism precludes or downgrades.    From Wordnik.com.  [Methodological Individualism] Reference

Consider the following example of a social-scientific debate: During the 1990s, there was a precipitous decline in violent crime in the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [Methodological Individualism] Reference

With few secure patrons, the Agency has clung to its claim of social-scientific objectivity as a source of authority and a justification for existence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elephantiasis of Reason] Reference

This book would seem to be an overview of social-scientific articles from the recent past, examining what components contribute to a good marriage -- or a bad one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Book review: 'For Better: The Science of a Good Marriage,' by Tara Parker-Pope] Reference

Thus one of the most important consequences of Weber's methodological individualism is that it puts rational action theory at the core of social-scientific inquiry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Methodological Individualism] Reference

Clio, the muse that once inspired virtually all humanistic and social-scientific study, is in danger of being exiled to the fringes of intellectual and cultural life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Class Act] Reference

Slawson, who held a doctorate in psychology from Columbia University and had an extensive background in social service work, ardently championed social-scientific research.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood] Reference

The study of normative political thought and the history of political thought is not an outgrowth of the same social-scientific turn as the other sub-disciplines in the field.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-11-19] Reference

I brought Canetti's Crowds and Power into my review as an example of the value of imaginative insights as opposed to social-scientific hypotheses about the psychology of power.    From Wordnik.com.  ['At the Dawn of Tyranny'] Reference

It involves, in other words, a commitment to the primacy of what Talcott Parsons would later call “the action frame of reference” (Parsons 1937: 43-51) in social-scientific explanation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Methodological Individualism] Reference

Nevertheless, it is worth noting two very common types of social-scientific inquiry that fall short of providing the sort of rock-bottom explanations that methodological individualism demands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Methodological Individualism] Reference

They were only one tool in a larger social-scientific kit, and their use in psycho-cultural research was only as good as the anthropologist or cultural psychologist who employed them in the field.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco : The Fox] Reference

Trying to justify cultural subvention through social-scientific quantification was a depressing misstep, like a tired poker player half-heartedly bluffing his way through the last hand of the game.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Will We Ever Learn?] Reference

According to a growing body of social-scientific evidence, children in families disrupted by divorce and out-of-wedlock birth do worse than children in intact families on several measures of well-being.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dan Quayle Was Right] Reference

Consider another social-scientific debate, this time the controversy over the data showing that stepparents have a far greater propensity to kill very young children in their care than biological parents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Methodological Individualism] Reference

By being open to everything, literary history appears capable of resisting disciplinary closure of the kind we associate with the scientific, the social-scientific, and even the historiographic disciplines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Presentism and the Archives] Reference

Such a naturalism identifies more specific forms of social-scientific knowledge that help in developing an analysis of the general conditions of rationality manifested in various human capacities and powers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jürgen Habermas] Reference

I would maintain that a highly significant aspect of dress (and even more so of literature) lies in this refusal on the part of individuals to "obey" the social-scientific laws of semiotics or linguistics or psychology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rescuing Literature: An Exchange] Reference

It's also not in tune with good social-scientific data.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jesus Creed] Reference

Washington Post that relates business experimentation to social-scientific experimentation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Corner on National Review Online] Reference

… or one about the social-scientific delusions of grandeur underlying rational choice theory?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fools, I’ll Show Them All!] Reference

Remco Hoekman, from the Mulier Institute, a centre for social-scientific research into sport, sees another advantage.    From Wordnik.com.  [RNW: English] Reference

Yet there is effort to mediate the best results of social-scientific thinking, through clerical education and directly to the laity.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant] Reference

On May 27, 2003, bored and therefore disposed toward acts of social-scientific inquiry, I sent an email to sixty-some friends and acquaintances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harper's Magazine] Reference

As is the fashion in business books today -- thank you, Malcolm Gladwell -- the Heaths rely for their evidence on loads of social-scientific experiments and case studies.    From Wordnik.com.  [DailyFinance] Reference

Research project about the governance of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) almost a year ago, there was basically no social-scientific or even political science literature about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ralf Bendrath] Reference

23 minutes ago, -0/+2I remember all the scientific, social-scientific, economic and all around wide-eyed optimism of that era, yes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference

So social-scientific.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gap Teeth, The Permanent Physical Manifestation of Pain & Loss | clusterflock] Reference