From the beginning itself, the social sciences seek to reach a truly scientific stage, by achieving some independence from the prevailing method in philosophy. In this case, conflicting views coexist on some aspect of reality, while in the exact sciences, this is not possible. Hence the humanistic branches of science should try to imitate, at least in this respect to the exact sciences. According to William James, the studies and researches of social studies cannot come to a derivative outcome based on facts or scientific theories. This kind of research involves communication and altercation on opinions, different behaviors and reactions, etc. There is no specific law or a single proposition from which any consequence can causally be deduced. Thus, coming to a concrete conclusion is difficult when it comes to experiments and researches of social studies. All science must establish objective descriptions based on observables, and therefore needs verifiable reality. The laws have to be to be causal links between the variables involved in the description. In addition, knowledge must be organized in an axiomatic way. Such an organization does not guarantee the accuracy of a description, but constitutes a prerequisite for the social sciences (Sherman, 1993).
Mario Bunge wrote “scientific researchers are expected to be guided by the scientific method, which reduces to the following sequence of steps: prior knowledge, problem, solution candidate (hypothesis, experimental design or technique), tested, evaluated candidate’s final review of one or another candidate for the solution, considering the procedure, prior knowledge and even the problem.” Verification of the proposals is to test them for consistency and truth, which often proves to be only approximate. This test can be conceptual, empirical or both. Nothing except the conventions and mathematical formulas is considered exempt from the empirical evidence. Nor is there any science without them, or any who are absent in the search and usage patterns (Associated Press, 1984).
从一开始，社会科学寻求达成真正的科学阶段，从哲学的主流方法实现一些独立。在这种情况下，相互冲突的观点并存的现实的某些方面，而在精确的科学，这是不可能的。因此，科学的人文分支应该尽力模仿，至少在这方面，精确的科学。据威廉杰姆斯，和社会研究的研究不能得出一个衍生结果基于事实或科学理论。这类研究涉及的意见沟通和冲突，不同的行为反应，等没有具体的法律或单一命题的任何后果的因果推断。因此，要具体的结论是困难的时候来实验和社会学的研究。所有的科学都必须建立基于观测值的客观描述，因此需要验证的现实。法律必须是参与的描述变量之间的因果关系。此外，知识必须被组织在一个公理化方法。这样的一个组织并不能保证一个描述的准确性，但构成的先决条件，社会科学（舍曼，1993）。
马里奥邦奇写道：“科学研究人员预计将通过科学的方法指导，从而降低了下面的步骤：先验知识，问题，解决方案候选（假设，实验设计或技术），测试，评估候选人的最后审查的一个或另一个候选的解决方案，考虑到程序，先验知识即使问题。”的建议，验证测试它们的一致性和真理，这往往被证明只是近似。这个测试可以概念，经验或。除了传统的和数学公式被免除的经验证据。也没有任何科学没有他们，或任何人都没有在搜索和使用模式（Associated Press，1984）
