SOURCE: “Social Science: The Public Disenchantment,” in American Scholar, summer, 1976.
In the following symposium, written by James S. Coleman, Morris Janowitz, Harry G. Johnson, Robert Lekachman, Martin Mayer, Daniel P. Moynihan, Harold Orlans, Thomas Sowell, and James Q. Wilson, the writers debate the merits of Nisbet's characterization of social scientists as discredited, inept meddlers in public policy.
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