Although Dickens wrote a hilarious analysis of ways of pleading for money inOur Mutual Friend, he responded generously to begging letters. He also took practical and energetic steps to deal with the problem of outcast children. In the year he wroteA Christmas Carol, the Second Report of the C...
Whether sociology can ever become a full-fledged "science" (a description of a class of events predictable on the basis of deductions from a constant rationale) depends on whether the terms which sociologists employ to describe events can be analyzed into quantifiable observables. —Anatol Rapoport...