This debate makes me think of two engineers arguing whether the most important thing in a car are the spark plugs or the fuel injection system. Every time something goes wrong -- it doesn't start, it hits a tree, the brakes fail -- they go back to yelling "spark plugs!", "fuel injection!"
Call me cynical, but if we wait for academic social science to fix society, we are screwed...
Don't look down on the social sciences too much, there was a time when great battles were fought between the people who believed in Darwinian evolution and those who believed in Mendelian genetics.
Call me cynical, but if we wait for academic social science to fix society, we are screwed...