books.google.com - What is the nature of the social sciences? What kinds of knowledge can they—and should they—hope to create? Are objective viewpoints possible and can universal laws be discovered? Questions like these have been asked with increasing urgency in recent years, as some philosophers and researchers have...http://books.google.com/books/about/Metatheory_in_Social_Science.html?id=_btWEg4oqsMC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareMetatheory in Social Science