Social science and philosophy
1964 Volume 1964 Issue 14 Pages 22-39
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1964 Volume 1964 Issue 14 Pages 22-39
In the first place, I tried to make the meaning of the word social “sciences” clear. It seems to me there are three usages of that term. The first, the sciences that are not the natural sciences. The second, the non-natural-sciences that are not the humanities. The third, the Marxist theory of society.
In my opinion, the field of the non-natural-sciences or the sciences of man is consisted of two subfields, that is the field of the social sciences and the mental sciences. The object of the one is the inter-personal communication process, and that of the other is the intra-personal communication process.
As to the methodology of the social sciences, I took the cases of Karl Marx and Max Weber, and analysed the relation between their philosophical viewpoints and their social theories. The reason for my selecting them is that they represent dialectic and analytic method of social sciences respectively.
