Limited Vision in The Social Sciences  

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Humphreys, Lloyd G.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The American Journal of Psychology vol. 104 no. 03 (1991), page 333-354.
Topik: VISION; Limited; Vision; Social Sciences
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The report of a committee of social scientists of the National Research Council on the status of black Americans is briefly described and its limitations discussed at greater length. Social science tends not only to be strongly environmental with respect to human abilities, but narrowly environmental in the central role assigned to poverty and naively environmental in expectations concerning what education can accomplish at all stages of human development. Associated with these attitudes is the reliance in research on membership in demographic groups and on the partial correlation methodology in causal analysis. Many socially important problems cannot feasibly be studied under experimental control, but studied they must be. However, causal attributions should be more tentative than those in this report. Additional insight into possible causal mechanisms can also be gained from the use of measures of individual differences in social science research. The problems of black Americans are more complex, and even more serious, than the analyses in the report indicate. The definition and measurement of racist attitudes are also more complex and more difficult than the committee believes. This is true both technically and ethically.

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