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International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Vol. 29, No. 3-4, 175-186 (1988)
DOI: 10.1177/002071528802900301
© 1988 SAGE Publications

The Long, Uncertain Road to Social Science Maturity

Fred Gareau

Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, U.S.A.

The paper explores the possibility that the social sciences will mature, and it singles out paradigms and conditions which tend to promote or to retard this accomplishment. Positivism and ethnocentrism are marked as retarding influences, whereas self-reflection and critical paradigms promote maturity. In any case, this accomplishment should be extremely difficult—it awaits world political and cultural unity.


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