A Humanist Science: Values and Ideals in Social Inquiry
ISBN: 9780804779692
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Stanford University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Social sciences -- Philosophy; Social sciences and ethics; Humanism -- History; Philosophy and social sciences;

This illuminating book provides a reconstruction of social theory that emphasizes its humanist foundations and the centrality of values in social inquiry.


Philip Selznick is Professor Emeritus of Law and Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2003, Professor Selznick received the Law & Society Association's Kalven prize, which recognizes a body of scholarly work that has contributed to the advancement of research in law and society.
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