ABSTRACT
No two human societies have ever been exactly the same; each is unique. Because of this, some scholars have concluded that a science of human societies is impossible. This view is certainly correct if one expects from science deterministic explanations of invariant causal relationships (vide, e.g., Baldus, 1990), but much of modern science does not conform to this model. Most of astronomy, geology, meteorology, and the biological sciences would not be considered sciences were this the standard that applied.
