Title: Is Sociology a Science?
Product review: Professor Fuller's tome gives new meaning to the term "academic." [Correction, these existing meanings will suffice: 4 Scholarly to the point of being unaware of the outside world. 7 Theoretical or speculative without a practical purpose or intention.] This critique of Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions (my copy of which is 212 pages) spans 423 pages, much of it densely packed footnotes. It also includes 37 pages of bibliographical references, of which entirely two are devoted to Fuller's own works (which, I'll wager, reek of the same "research grant" odour). But what purpose does this unprecedented documentation serve? Is there a thesis (idea) within this thesis (dissertation)? My advice: check out a copy from the library; it's the dusty one in the New Books section.
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