http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/348/alexander-p-young Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Tue, 05 May 2026 16:54:31 -0400 Tue, 05 May 2026 16:54:31 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/628/weber-and-nagel-on-values-in-the-social-and-natural-sciences By Alexander P. Young - Due to their different subject matter, the way in which social and natural science inquiries are conducted differs. For some, this difference is constituted in a greater reliance upon values in the social sciences than in the natural. This essay, on the other hand, aims to demonstrate that both schools of science are equally value-laden. This is undertaken via an exposition of Weber’s arguments for social science as more value-laden than natural science, followed by a critique of these arguments through the lens of Nagel’s discussion of social scientific inquiry and accusations of... Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:46 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/628/weber-and-nagel-on-values-in-the-social-and-natural-sciences http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/369/emile-durkheim-and-methodological-individualism By Alexander P. Young - In Smith’s initial formulation, the ‘invisible hand’ was a mechanism of beneficial outcomes, but the methodological individualist approach also accounts for negative social occurrences such as racial segregation: in the model given by Rosenberg, the ‘rational’ disposition to living around a given fraction of people of our own race may lead to a situation of practically perfect segregation – even in situations where we would prefer to live in integrated neighbourhoods. In this situation, if (for example) we wish to live with a minimum of one-third of people our... Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:49 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/369/emile-durkheim-and-methodological-individualism http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/368/cartel-parties-and-party-competition-growth-and-analysis By Alexander P. Young - Throughout the course of the second half of the 20th century, it is undeniable that the organizational structures and methods employed by political parties have changed: one hypothesized change, publicized by Katz and Mair, is the evolution of parties into so-called ‘cartel parties.’ Over the course of this essay, it is aimed that the implications of this new structure on patterns of party competition, through an analysis of historical developments in party structures and an exposition of ‘traditional’ patterns of party competition, be explored with a view to show that... Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:21 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/368/cartel-parties-and-party-competition-growth-and-analysis