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This bood argues that mainstream social scientits have failed to be useful because of misguided efforts to use objectivist methods employed in the natural sciences-of treating humans as"things",it argues that the attempt to imitate the objectivism of natural scientists has caused social csientists to borh negledct human collective goals and to overlood a virtual gold mine of empirical data which exists because humans can communicate thir feelings,beliefs,and personal histories.This wealth of data exists because of the extraordinary amount of information humans possess due to their ability to interpret and remember their own experiences.
Part 1 of the bood discusses the ways in which objectivism has led to the undue neglect of human social goals across the social sciences.Part 2deals with objectivist failures by using models where motivation depends equally upon all impoutant social goals.Cooperative efforts are suggested,perhaps by using alternative organizational and institutional arrangements where universities would reorganize the social sciences into single divisions of human sciences.