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Psychology and sociology: Beyond neither determinism nor science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

Carmi Schooler
Carmi Schooler
Affiliation:
Section on Socio-environmental Studies, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda MD 20892-9005 [email protected]
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Abstract

While agreeing with Rose's reasoning about why the causes of organisms' behaviors cannot be reduced to the solely biological and molecular, this review questions Rose's uses of the terms “determinism” and “contingency”; his occasional seemingly cavalier acceptance as fact of unproven hypotheses about social and psychological phenomena; and his general disdain for the psychometric tradition and its causal modeling extensions.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 5 , October 1999 , pp. 903 - 904
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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