ABSTRACT
From the brief evidence of the translation of certain relevant passages in Popper’s Theory of Knowledge in Modern Natural Science, one can easily judge that there are two aspects to it. First, with which one assumes Dahrendorf is concerned, the description of the process of scientific critical or empirical testing; and, second, the philosophical question of ‘demarcation’, with which Popper is primarily concerned, between empirical science and metaphysics. Apart from the contradiction in claiming ubiquity for ‘conflict’ first and then making it complementary to ‘equilibrium’, Dahrendorf’s belief that this imposition of ‘an alternative model of society’ as a means of sociological analysis is an improvement on Parsons—especially if sociologists through their ‘problem-consciousness’ concentrate on problems of conflict. Apart from the contradiction in claiming ubiquity for ‘conflict’ first and then making it complementary to ‘equilibrium’, Dahrendorf’s belief that this imposition of ‘an alternative model of society’ as a means of sociological analysis is an improvement on Parsons.
