For histories of the emergence of the modern human and social sciences, see: Porter and Ross, Modern Social Sciences; Ross, Origins; and Smith, Norton History. 12. For the historical details of this narrative I am indebted to the work ...
In this context, Porter notes that quantification is being used as a political practice in modern democratic societies in order to help individuals cope with disagreement through a form of quasi-objectivity. Thus he studies practices ...
The Voices of Real
Robert C. Tucker, ed., The Marx-Engels Reader, 2nd ed. ... William Everdell, First Moderns (Chicago, IL; University of Chicago Press, 1997); Theodore Porter, Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life ...
In We Built Reality, Jason Blakely explains how recent social science theories have not simply described political realities but also helped create them.
Consider, for example, Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow. Alexander notes that while the sale and use of drugs occur at remarkably similar rates across racial groups in America, blacks have been subject to far more punishment ...
This book explores this flood of scientism as it has spread in the last fifty years into almost all facets of daily existence.
This book offers a way for social scientists and political theorists to reintegrate the empirical and the normative, proposing a way out of the scientism that clouds our age.
A compilation poetry book by various poets.
Collecting Ghosts: Love Notes, Love Poems, Pictures and Vows is a chronicle of the most difficult, trying and testing time in my life.
This volume introduces, and argues for the fundamental importance of, an interpretive approach to explaining social and political reality.
A book of poetry that challenges ones self and their beliefs as well as the challenges we face in society and the issues within it. Overall, this book is an unapologetic voice of love, understanding and truth.
How Social Science Infiltrated Culture, Politics, and Power Jason Blakely. warfare. In fact, not only was America's liberal, free-market democracy scientifically superior at creating peaceful orders, but it also controlled a clean, ...