Dorothy Ross

The Origins of American Social Science

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines how American social science modelled itself on natural science and liberal politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 536
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1012g
• ISBN-13: 9780521350921
• ISBN-10: 0521350921
• Artikelnr.: 28982822

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. European Social Science in Antebellum America: 1. The discovery of modernity
2. The American exceptionalist vision
Part II. The Crisis of American Exceptionalism, 1865-1896: 3. Establishment of the social science disciplines
4. The threat of socialism in economics and sociology
Part III. Progressive Social Science, 1896-1914: 5. The liberal revision of American exceptionalism
6. Marginalism and historicism in economics
7. Toward a sociology of social control
8. From historico-politics to political science
Part IV. American Social Science As The Study Of Natural Process, 1908-1929: 9. Modernist historical consciousness and American liberal change
10. The advent of scientism
Epilogue
Footnote abbreviations
Footnotes.