Social Knowledge —— An Essay on the Nature and Limits of Social Science

----- 社会知识：论社会科学的性质与限度

ISBN: 9789004414808 出版年：2019 页码：136 Paul Mattick Brill

How is scientific knowledge of social life possible? if there are social sciences, must they employ methods different from those of the natural sciences? in social knowledge, paul mattick argues that the well-known difficulties of the social sciences - in particular the predictive and explanatory failures of economics - are due not to an inherent resistance of social life to scientific explanation, but to the failure of social scientists to include their own categories of social explanation among the objects of scientific study. Looking at marx as an anthropological theorist, mattick compares his critique of political economy with evans-pritchard's analysis of azande witchcraft. Just as the british anthropologist attempted to explain azande ideas and rituals in terms of their place in nati