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The Modern Social Sciences

Series The Cambridge History of Science, Volume
7

Edited by Theodore
M. Porter and Dorothy
Ross

Publication Date 2003

Hardback ISBN-10 0521594421

Hardback ISBN-13 9780521594424

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1017/CHOL9780521594424

Overview

This volume provides a history of the concepts, practices, institutions, and
ideologies of social sciences (including behavioural and economic sciences)
since the eighteenth century. It offers original, synthetic accounts of the
historical development of social knowledge, including its philosophical
assumptions, its social and intellectual organization, and its relations to
science, medicine, politics, bureaucracy, philosophy, religion, and the
professions. Its forty-two chapters include inquiries into the genres and
traditions that formed social science, the careers of the main social
disciplines (psychology, economics, sociology, anthropology, political science,
geography, history, and statistics), and international essays on social science
in Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It also includes essays that
examine the involvement of the social sciences in government, business,
education, culture, and social policy. This is a broad cultural history of
social science, which analyzes from a variety of perspectives its participation
in the making of the modern world.

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print book, and how to buy it online, please see The Modern Social Sciences in
the Cambridge University Press online catalogue.

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Cambridge History of Science Vol. 7: The Modern Social Sciences

Frontmatter

Introduction:
Writing the History of Social Science by Theodore
M. Porter and Dorothy
Ross

Sciences
of The Social to the late Nineteenth Century

The
Disciplines in Western Europe and North America Since about 1880

The
Internationalization of the Social Sciences

Social
Science as Discourse and Practice in Public and Private Life

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