Reddit reviews Varieties of Social Explanation

I really like Little's Varieties of Social Explanation as a good primer on the (justified / justifiable) methodology of social science. Which is good: I like this point, but it mostly points out the problems with trying to prove social science doesn't work, rather than build an explanation of how it does work.

Also, crackpot theory time (kind of ironic in context, but anyway): I blame neoliberalism for a lot of the anti-intellectualism aimed at the social sciences. I think the background cultural assumption that planned economies fail because of their inability to gather together and mobilise sufficient knowledge (thanks, Hayek!) morphs into a "but how can you even ever prove that 'institutional oppression' exists?!?!" when reactionaries get their hands on it.