ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that “an inferiority complex may or may not be justified by some ‘objective’ standards,” and discusses the consequences that “the feeling of inferiority”—conscious or subconscioush—as for the behavior of the social scientists who are suffering from it. The social sciences and the natural sciences are compared and contrasted on many scores, and the discussions are often unsystematic. There is a great deal of truth, and important truth. Some philosophers were so impressed with the invariance of nature and the variability of social phenomena that they used this difference as the criterion in the definitions of natural and cultural sciences. To remove confusion one must separate the different meanings of “value” and the different ways in which they relate to the social sciences, particularly economics. With regard to the first of the possibilities, some authorities have held that the social sciences may more easily succumb to temptation and may show obvious biases.
