Sociology Hesitant
Sociology Hesitant
ca. 1905
This chapter presents an essay by W. E. B. Du Bois on the field of sociology. It argues that true students of sociology have adopted the speech and assumption of humanity in regard to human action and yet studies those actions with all possible scientific accuracy. They have refused to cloud their reason with metaphysical entities undiscovered and undiscoverable, and they have also refused to neglect the greatest possible field of scientific investigation because they are unable to find laws similar to the law of gravitation. They have assumed a world of physical law peopled by beings capable in some degree of actions Inexplicable and Uncalculable according to these laws. And their object has been to determine as far as possible the limits of the Uncalculable—to measure the Kantian Absolute and the Undetermined Ego.
Keywords: W. E. B. Du Bois, sociology, humanity, scientific investigation, physical law
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