The new industrial revolution and wages

The social Theory of Georg Simmel

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Identifikator:: 1804651486

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-193069

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Author:: Lauck, William Jett http://d-nb.info/gnd/173237126

Title:: The new industrial revolution and wages

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: Funk & Wagnalls

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: ix, 308 S.; graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter X. The real significance of the new industrial revolution, and the conditions of future progress

Collection:: Economics Books

78 THE SOCIAL THEORY OF GEORG SIMMEL and there is no reason to believe that sociology will not perfect its technique as it grows. Besides, in dealing with the great objectified social structures there is less chance for a purely subjective treatment in the abstraction of the form. Also, where this danger is greatest, namely, in the treatment of the minute processes of socialization, there is a safeguard in the great number of data on which the in- duction may be based. The complexity of social life and the relative crudeness of the technique of sociology prevent in the present stage a fundamental clarity regarding its basic questions and a perfect validity of its answers. But in many fields of scien- tific investigation, the so-called foundations are less secure than the superstructure erected upon them. Scientific procedure, especially in new fields, can scarcely dispense with a certain amount of intuitive performance. Only sub- sequently do we become fully conscious of its motives and norms and can we subject them to a conceptual criticism. Scientific labor will, of course, never be satisfied with a vague and intuitive treatment of details, but science would be doomed to sterility in new fields if it had to wait for a completely formulated methodology and technique.’ . Soz., ». 97.

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