methodology

Updated: May 25, 2025

I submit, therefore, for discussion, as even more urgent and pressing than that of the general and abstract methodology of the social sciences, the problem of elaborating a concrete descriptive method readily applicable to the study and comparison of human societies, to cities therefore especially. Spencer, and still more fruitfully to more recent writers.

Patrick Geddes - Civics: as Applied Sociology

There are many books, "inaugural lectures," "academic orations," and review-articles, published in all countries, but especially in France, Germany, England, the United States, and Italy, both on the whole subject of methodology and on the different parts of it.

Charles Victor Langlois - Introduction to the Study of History