Add this copy of Social Sciences as Sorcery to cart. $248.00, very good condition, Sold by AARDVARK RARE BOOKS, ABAA rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Eugene, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1972 by Andre Deutsch Limited.
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Very Good Plus / Very Good. Octavo, 8.75 in. x 5.5 in., pp. 238. Purple cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Previous owner's address to front free endpaper. Light rubbing to dustjacket, with sunning to spine. Chip to dustjacket's top front corner. Spine and hinges tight. "The purpose of the social sciences is to explain us to ourselves. Then why do so many sociologists, psychologists and other pundits write in such inexplicable, inextricable prose? Why are their simplest observations cloaked in an impenetrable jargon? Why do the areas in which they are supposedly expert become increasingly confusing? In this pungent, stimulating and unconventional book Professor Andreski gives some answers which may not make him many friends in the citadels of academic orthodoxy. Obscurity, he points out, is the refuge of mediocre minds..." (from the dustjacket).
