The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 7, The Modern Social SciencesDavid C. Lindberg, Theodore M. Porter, Roy Porter, Ronald L. Numbers, Dorothy Ross, Cambridge University Press, Mary Jo Nye, Katharine Park, Lorraine Daston 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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Contents
Writing the History of Social Science | 1 |
Genres and Objects of Social Inquiry from | 13 |
Social Thought and Natural Science | 40 |
Cause Teleology and Method | 57 |
Utopian Socialism and Social Science | 71 |
Social Surveys in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth | 83 |
Scientific Ethnography and Travel 17501850 | 100 |
History and Historicism | 113 |
Psychology in Russia and Central and Eastern Europe | 431 |
Sociology in Egypt and Morocco | 450 |
The Social Sciences in Africa | 466 |
The Social Sciences in India | 482 |
The Social Sciences in China | 498 |
The Social Sciences in Japan | 515 |
SOCIAL SCIENCE AS DISCOURSE | 535 |
Managing the Economy | 553 |
Bringing the Psyche into Scientific Focus | 131 |
IO Continental Political Economy from the Physiocrats | 154 |
British Economic Theory from Locke to Marshall | 171 |
Marx and Marxism | 183 |
THE DISCIPLINES IN WESTERN EUROPE | 203 |
Statistics and Statistical Methods | 238 |
IS Psychology | 251 |
Economics | 275 |
Political Science | 306 |
Sociology | 329 |
Anthropology | 354 |
Geography | 379 |
History and the Social Sciences | 391 |
The Sciences of Modernity in a Disparate World | 407 |
The Social Sciences in Latin America during | 413 |
Management and Accounting | 565 |
Polling in Politics and Industry | 577 |
Social Science and Social Planning during | 591 |
Social Welfare | 608 |
Education | 621 |
The Culture of Intelligence | 635 |
Psychologism and the Child | 649 |
Psychiatry | 663 |
Gender | 678 |
Race and the Social Sciences | 693 |
Cultural Relativism | 708 |
Modernization | 721 |
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| Title | The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 7, The Modern Social Sciences Cambridge histories online The Cambridge History of Science, Roy Porter Volume 7 of “The” Cambridge History of Science: “The” Modern Social Sciences / Ed. by Theodore M. Porter ; Dorothy Ross, Theodore M. Porter |
| Editors | David C. Lindberg, Theodore M. Porter, Roy Porter, Ronald L. Numbers, Dorothy Ross, Cambridge University Press, Mary Jo Nye, Katharine Park, Lorraine Daston |
| Contributor | Michael H. Shank |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0521594421, 9780521594424 |
| Length | 762 pages |
| Subjects | › Science / History Technology & Engineering / History |
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