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Antonio Gramsci's work, primarily Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci (1971), is drawn on to examine the place of the social sciences in society, their connection with economic interest, & the extent of autonomy they enjoy. Following Gramsci, an effort is made to tie the social sciences to ideology & to identify their major social functions. Gramsci's claim that the general function of the intellectual is to give a particular class self-consciousness is discussed, & it is argued that Gramsci's work is best viewed as a project for radical social change rather than one for social regulation. Gramsci's views on social science methodology are briefly discussed, along with his conception of ideology. 1 Photograph, 18 References. W. Howard

The basis of Thomas S. Kuhn's theory of scientific revolutions was the problem of how to regard past scientific theories that are now considered as errors or even as myths. A similar problem is raised here for the social sciences & the theories within various disciplines & schools that competing disciplines & schools dismiss in the same way. In the process, a social science of social science is proposed as the appropriate method. Dependency theory provides the model for such an account; the social science of the US largely disregards that of other countries, but often influences it, resulting in a pattern of concentration & elitism. A future of increasing dissonance can be expected, with social science becoming one facet of Third World revolt. 64 References. W. H. Stoddard

Dependency theory is sketched & used as heuristic device to suggest the role & position of the Third World in social science. The Mertonian-naturalist model of scientific development is examined in comparison. The remedy for the imposition of false or inappropriate social sciences by the First World on the Third World is seen to be the local creation of national disciplines, increased regional communication, & an indefinite ceasing of relations between the periphery & the center, so a national social science can be allowed to develop. 32 References. Modified AA.

Observers have been intrigued by the relationship which has developed between the United Nations and Africa, a continent that now houses one-third of the membership of the world institution. Investigators have been seduced by subjects such as African frustration with the world organisation,1 African cohesion on Assembly roll-calls,2 African co-operation with Latin America in New York,3 or the impact of Mother Africa's offspring upon the United Nations.4 A few authors have sensed the magnitude of the impact which the world organisation has had upon the continent5, and several have detailed discrete instances of what has happened. What we have not seen is a general assessment of this impact with supporting data. My aim is to fill this gap in the literature, and to determine to what extent the existence of the United Nations has made a difference for Africa.