Decline of Ideology: A Dissent and an Interpretation*

摘要: With increasing frequency and self-assurance, the scientific objectivity of American social science is proclaimed by some its prominent practitioners. Various explanations are offered for onset science's Golden Age, but central to most them claim that modern has managed resolve Mannheim's Paradox, namely, in pursuit truth scientist himself handicapped narrow focus distortions implicit ideological thought. Presumably, can now probe any aspect human organization behavior as dispassionately physical scientists observe structure atom or chemical reactions. For this reason, it claimed ideologically liberated scientists—at least United States—can expect be co-opted into Scientific Culture, segment society presumably aloof from disdainful toward moralistic speculations tender-heartedness literary intellectuals.The behaviorial “revolution” political may have run course, left wake both obscurantist criticisms empiricism, on one hand, and, other an unquestioning belief “science.” Quite often latter not merely anti-historical anti-philosophical also uncritical about extent which empirical observations colored very orientation values seeks control rigorous research.The claims greatly buttressed views Talcott Parsons.