1. Introduction: writing the history of social science Theodore M. Porter and Dorothy Ross
Part I. Sciences of the Social to the Late Nineteenth Century: 2. Genres and objects of social inquiry from the enlightenment to 1890 Theodore M. Porter
3. Social thought and natural science Johan Heilbron
4. Cause, teleology, and method Stephen Turner
5. Utopian socialism and social science Antoine Picon
6. Social surveys in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Eileen Yeo
7. Scientific ethnography and travel, 1750-1850 Harry Liebersohn
8. History and historicism Johnson Kent Wright
9. Bringing the psyche into scientific focus Jan Goldstein
10. Continental political economy from the physiocrats to the marginal revolution Keith Tribe
11. British economic theory from Locke to Marshall Margaret Schabas
12. Marx and Marxism Terrell Carver
Part II. The Disciplines in Western Europe and North America since about 1880: 13. Changing contours of the social science disciplines Dorothy Ross
14. Statistics and statistical methods Theodore Porter
15. Psychology Mitchell Ash
16. Economics Mary Morgan
17. Political science James Farr
18. Sociology Robert Bannister
19. Anthropology Adam Kuper
20. Geography as a social science Marie-Claire Robic
21. History and the social sciences Jacques Revel
Part III. The Internationalization of the Social Sciences: 22. The sciences of modernity in a disparate world Andrew Barshay
23. The social sciences in Latin America Jorge Balan
24. Psychology in Russia and Central Eastern Europe Jaromir Janousek and Irina Sirotkina
25. Sociology in the Near East Alain Roussillon
26. Economics, political science, and anthropology in Africa Owen Sichone
27. The social sciences in India Partha Chatterjee
28. The social sciences in China Bettina Gransow
29. The social sciences in Japan Andrew Barshay
Part IV. Social Science as Discourse and Practice in Public and Private Life: 30. The uses of the social sciences Peter Wagner
31. Managing the economy Alain Desrosieres
32. Management and accounting Peter Miller
33. Polling in politics and industry Susan Herbst
34. Social science and social planning during the twentieth century Peter Wagner
35. Social welfare Ellen Fitzpatrick
36. Education Julie Reuben
37. The culture of intelligence John Carson
38. Psychologism and the child Ellen Herman
39. Psychiatry Elizabeth Lunbeck
40. Gender Rosalind Rosenberg
41. Race Elazar Barkan
42. Cultural relativism David Hollinger
43. Modernization Michael Latham.
