Subject Index
a
| anti-entropic systems 55 |
| anti-naturalism 50 |
| Aristotelian cosmology 15 |
b
| Balinese cockfight 91, 95 |
| The Bell Curve118 |
| big bang 25 |
| biological determinism 135; |
| and natural selection 135 |
| biological potentiality 138 |
| BSE 34, 35 |
| butterfly effect 125 |
c
| causality: |
| deterministic version of 55 |
| Census (UK) 61, 64 |
| CFC 74 |
| chaos: |
| deterministic 128; |
| stochastic 128 |
| chaos theory 25, 124 |
| complex systems: |
| behaviour in 127 |
| complexity: |
| mathematical 55 |
| contextual empiricism 110 |
| crucial experiments 39 |
| curiosity: |
| problem-centred 53 |
d
| deduction: |
| problem of 36; |
| science and 12 |
| deductive logic 12, 39 |
| demarcation criterion 36 |
| discipline: |
| ideographic 50; |
| nomothetic 50 |
| DNA 44, 45, 46, 113 |
| double helix 44 |
e
| early society: |
| scientific development of 10 |
| ethical judgement: |
| as normative judgement 111 |
| ethical problems: |
| and scientific knowledge 113 |
| ethics: |
| utilitarian 112 |
| ethnicity 6, 64 |
| ethnography see interpretivism |
f
| falibilism 40 |
| falsifiability 37 |
| field research see interpretivism |
g
| generalisation 99 : |
| moderatum 100; |
| statistical 100; |
| total 100 |
| grand theory: |
| in social science 59, 60 |
| grand unified theory 55 |
h
| hermeneutics see interpretivism |
| Human Genome Project 44, 113 |
| hypo-thetico-deductive model 30 |
| hypotheses: |
| defined 35 |
i
| incest taboo 137 |
| inductive inference 41 |
| interpretivism: |
| origins of 90 |
| IQ testing: |
| cognitive ability and 118 |
| ironic science 140 |
k
| knowledge: |
| -power feedback loop 9; |
| ‘Third World’ of 33 |
l
| Laplacian view of nature 55 |
| large scale surveys 61 |
| laws: |
| as facts 31 |
| logic: |
| deductive 12, 39 |
| logical positivism 20 |
| low level theories: |
| and hypotheses 35 |
m
| Markov Chain 59 |
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Publication information:
Book title: Science and Social Science:An Introduction.
Contributors: Malcolm Williams - Author.
Publisher: Routledge.
Place of publication: London.
Publication year: 2000.
Page number: 172.
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