So accustomed are we to this method of collecting, recording and presenting social changes, that it may well sound ridiculous to say that a genuine social science would manifest its reality in the daily press, while learned books and articles supply and polish tools of inquiry.
Dewey argues for the necessity of integrating genuine social science into everyday media rather than relying solely on academic publications.
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The easiest way out was to go back to the naked individual, to sweep away all associations as foreign to his nature and rights save as they proceeded from his own voluntary choice, and guaranteed his own private ends.
There was no logic which rendered necessary the appeal to the individual as an independent and isolated being.
In other words, every officer of the public, whether he represents it as a voter or as a stated official, has a dual capacity.
But he does so only at the cost of repression of those of his potentialities which can be realized only through membership in other groups.