A blank slate gives sociologists freedom to develop grand theories of the causes of social phenomena without having to deal with biological or genetic limits.

A blank slate gives sociologists freedom to develop grand theories of the causes of social phenomena without having to deal with biological or genetic limits. The result is what Nozick called normative sociology, "the study of what the causes of problems ought to be." https://t.co/9f222Pn8KM

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