The Blackwell Dictionary of Modern Social Thought (2nd edition)

It is entirely possible to be a natural scientist – a biochemist or a pharmacologist, say, without ever really thinking about what you are doing. Although in Dr Johnson's day “chymistry” was naturally included under the heading of philosophy, “Philosophy of Science” is now a quite separate subject from “Science”, and is usually carried out by quite different people. Social scientists, by contrast, do have to think about what they are doing. Philosophy, even in its narrowest sense, permeates the social sciences – most of all in sociology and perhaps least of all in economics. Knowledge of “modern social thought”...