On the Law of Social Behavior.
Science seems to be, among other things, part of man's quest for legitimate extrapolations beyond immediate sense impressions. Though some sociologists seem to think that "going beyond one's data" constitutes a scholarly sort of sin, the whole purpose of a sampling apparatus is precisely to enable a...
| Publicado en: | Sociological Quarterly Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 15 - 23 |
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