| Author: |
N. K. Sarkar |
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SEP 1978 |
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No |
"Freedom" wrote Engels, "is the recognition of necessity." In the physical science necessity is recognized by objective verification and experimentation. The subjective bias of the scientist and the peculiarities of his own mentality are thus automatically isolated, and are not allowed to influence his scientific deductions. In the social sciences, on the contrary, the cognitive process is largely conditioned by the subjective values of the social scientist. His personal views, beliefs, political ideology, class loyalty and his nation's and his personal interests cannot be separated from the way he views social phenomena. Gunnar Myrdal has been emphasising the danger of such a bias in the social sciences for over twenty years with out receiving much attention. The social sciences have continued to be influenced by the personal, national and class biases of the social sciences, who has remained unconscious of those biases and has assumed a presumptuous loftiness about the universality of his deductions.
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