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AMERICAN sociology has been often described as suffering from two major though mutually exclusive complaints: a tendency to systematization which borders on vacuous verbosity ; or, in contrast, a raw empiricism satisfied with increasingly detailed descriptions and the endless and aimless collection of fact, numerical in preference. On the whole, this indictment is as unfair as in a few exceptional cases it is amusingly apposite.
The Nature of Human Nature:
and other Essays in Social Psychology. By Prof. Ellsworth Faris. (McGraw-Hill Publications in Sociology.) Pp. xii + 370. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1937.) 21s.
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M., B. The Nature of Human Nature. Nature 140, 566 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/140566a0
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