The Scientific Study of Society: A Discussion of Limits and Alternatives

For a report of the Seminar see Education News, 11, December 1967.

Massialas B. G. Cox C. B. Inquiry in Social Studies. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966, 132.

A similar error seems to be encouraged by the well known Contra Costa social studies programme for elementary schools, described in Taba H. Hills J. L. Teachers' Handbook for Contra Costa Social Studies, Grades 1–6. San Francisco: San Francisco State College, 1965, 12.

Berelson B. Steiner G. A. Human Behavior: An Inventory of Scientific Findings. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1964.

Berelson B. Steiner G. A. Human Behavior: An Inventory of Scientific Findings. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1964, 368.

Berelson B. Steiner G. A. Human Behavior: An Inventory of Scientific Findings. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1964, 482.

Berelson B. Steiner G. A. Human Behavior: An Inventory of Scientific Findings. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1964, 537.

See Popper K. R. The Poverty of Historicism. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1957. This provides a telling refutation of any claim that universal laws of social change can be derived from a study of history.

Hardie C. D. Truth and Fallacy in Educational Theory. New York: Teachers' College, Columbia University, 1962, 22–23.

Coser L. A. Sociology Through Literature. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1963, 4.

Quoted by Commager H. S. The Nature and The Study of History. Columbus: Charles E. Merrill, 1965, 6.

See Oliver D. W. Shaver J. P. Teaching Public Issues in the High School. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. This is a description of an experimental project in which a social studies course is built around the application of value judgments to public issues.