title: Method and matter in the social sciences: Umbilically tied to the Enlightenment.
abstract: This commentary deals with the nonconformity of academics and the ethos of social science. Academics in all fields deviate from majority norms in politics and religion, and this deviance may be essential to the academic mind and to academic norms. The Enlightenment legacy inspires both methods and subject matter in academic work, and severing ties with it may be impossible.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology,University of Haifa,3498838 Haifa,Israel.benny@psy.haifa.ac.ilhttp://hevra.haifa.ac.il/~psy/index.php/en/faculty?id=112.
authors.forename: Benjamin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Beit-Hallahmi
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D011057:Politics; D012067:Religion; D012942:Social Sciences