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In the second half of the 19th century, social sciences in the United States were directly related to the reformist movement and the improvement of social life. "The "Social Science Movement", which was formed in 1885 into the American Association of Social Science, was a typical attempt for the end of the 19th century to "apply science" to the solution of social problems without resorting to explicit tactical means of political activity. In short, it was an attempt to turn the problems and difficulties of the lower class into a subject of public concern from the middle class...

The social sciences are experiencing moral "scientific", political and intellectual crises along with the moral "scientific" crisis. Attempts to ignore this fact are one of the reasons for the protracted crisis. In order to judge the problems and methods of the various schools in social science, we have to understand the great variety of political values and intellectual challenges around us, for we cannot pose any problem unless we establish whose problem it is. What seems to be a problem to one...

Abstract empiricism has two common justifications. If we accept them, it turns out that the severity of the results is achieved not due to some essential characteristic of the "Method", but due to the reasons "random in nature", namely due to money and time. Firstly, it may be assumed that, since such research is very expensive, its problems are to some extent inevitably influenced by the interests of those who pay for it, and it may be added that these interests are related to completely unrelated problems...

It is not customary for abstract empiricism as a social science style to formulate any meaningful theories and conclusions. Empiricism is not based on any new concepts of nature, society, and man, nor is it based on specific facts. One thing is certain: this style is easily recognizable by the range of problems that its adherents choose to study and the ways in which these problems are studied. However, it is undeniable that such research does not deserve to be recognized as such a style of social study...

As with High Theory, the abstract empiricism of the cognition process is characterized by the fact that researchers snatch a private operation that takes over them entirely. Both directions allow the scientist to distance himself from the main tasks of social sciences. Of course, it is necessary to reflect on the method and theory, but in these directions such reflections become a barrier to cognition. The "methodological self-limitation" of abstract empiricism here plays the same role as the fetishization of the "Concept" in the "High Theory"...