There are no equivalents for the law of gravity In the social sciences, no laws with which societies or those who live In them must comply. Do they then have a proper claim to be scientific? Julius Gould , Professor of Sociology at Nottingham University and Director of Research at the Institute for Policy
Research, reflects on two Important recent attempts to answer the question: The
Methodology of Social Theory by Gary Runclman and the first two volumes of Theoreticol Logic in Sociology by Professor Jeffrey Alexander.