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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 2239048, member: 26302"]You have to be careful. In most social sciences there is no absolute answer, with most schools of thought having valid points. This is due to human involvement. Humans are irrational creatures at times, so no overarching theory can ever hope to explain everything. I tend to be a temporal pragmatist concerning social sciences in that if it helps explain a situation today that is the best a social science theory can ever hope to do.</p><p><br /></p><p>The closest I hold any social science issue in disdain would be the critical science epistemology, and even that has its place if the core principal assumptions are challenged enough beforehand.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, short answer, I would not hold any in "utter disdain". All social science theories will hold at least a grain of truth, and if you cannot coolly, logically understand why you disagree how are you so sure you are right? An unchallenged belief is not worth having, right?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 2239048, member: 26302"]You have to be careful. In most social sciences there is no absolute answer, with most schools of thought having valid points. This is due to human involvement. Humans are irrational creatures at times, so no overarching theory can ever hope to explain everything. I tend to be a temporal pragmatist concerning social sciences in that if it helps explain a situation today that is the best a social science theory can ever hope to do. The closest I hold any social science issue in disdain would be the critical science epistemology, and even that has its place if the core principal assumptions are challenged enough beforehand. So, short answer, I would not hold any in "utter disdain". All social science theories will hold at least a grain of truth, and if you cannot coolly, logically understand why you disagree how are you so sure you are right? An unchallenged belief is not worth having, right?[/QUOTE]
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