The Origins of American Social Science

Klappentext Examines how American social science modelled itself on natural science and liberal politics. Zusammenfassung This book examines how American social science came to model itself on natural science and liberal politics. Professor Ross shows how each of the social science disciplines! while developing their inherited intellectual traditions! responded to change in historical consciousness! political needs! professional structures! and the conceptions of science available to them. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Dorothy Ross
• Assisted by: Quentin Skinner (Editor), James Tully (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.03.1992
• EAN: 9780521428361
• ISBN: 978-0-521-42836-1
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Ideas in Context; Ideas in Context
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories