ABSTRACT

This chapter begins the final stages of our journey. These final chapters will introduce some new materials while at the same time reviewing and contemplating the journey so far. The chapter will go into more detail about the nature of science viewed from the vantage point of sociology; help the reader understand how to criticize science, how to be rationally skeptical of science, without losing your mind or your voice. The idea that science could be differently imagined and differently organized is discussed in terms of Marx's distinction between bourgeois and human science. The chapter concludes with an introduction to the author's perspective on “anarchism: social chaos or social theory,” and some thoughts on the humane inquiries promised by human science.