Word: bayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some thoughtful consideration of just this problem was provided in Christian Bay's article, "The Cheerful Science of Dismal Politics," in The Dissenting Academy...
...Bay, head of the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta, wrote that social scientists of today are efficient at their trade, but that their trade does not demand enough of them...
...Responsible social scientists must also demand of themselves something more, which may be called substantive rationality, . . . the requirement that ends should be as rigorously articulated and tested as are, in political science at its current best, the proposed means to those ends," Bay said...
...Bay is afraid that political science has taken an exclusively functional approach. "I object not to a functional approach, but to a functional approach that has no normative reference beyond the range of data it seeks to order and make use of," Bay said...
John Endecott, sometime Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, has come to the settlement of Merry Mount, near Wollaston, Mass., with the intent to chastise its inhabitants. Merry Mount is anathema to the Puritans because it is an enclave of happiness, fostering a live-and-let-live philosophy, indulging in such rites as dancing around the Maypole. Its leader, Thomas Morton, flauntingly lives with the daughter of the local Indian chief, and carries on a thriving fur trade with the Indians by the dangerous practice of selling them firearms and liquor...