Discourses on Society The Shaping of the Social Science Disciplines /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wagner, Peter. (Editor), Wittrock, Bj©œrn. (Editor), Whitley, Richard. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1991.
• Series: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook, 15
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Political science.; Economics.; Management science.; Sociology.; Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.; Political Science.; Economics, general.
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This book, which represents probably the most comprehensive discussion of the emergence of modem social science yet produced, is of far more than merely historical interest. The contributors set out to rewrite the history of the social sciences and to show the limitations of conventional conceptions...

Table of Contents:

• The Politics and Episteme of Discourses on Society
• Analyzing Social Science: On the Possibility of a Sociology of the Social Sciences
• Knowledge for Certainty: Poverty, Welfare Institutions and the Institutionalization of Social Science
• National Profiles In a Long-Term Perspective
• The Social Science Disciplines: The American Model
• The Tripartite Division of French Social Science: A Long-Term Perspective
• ỚSScience and PoliticsỚ<U+00fd> as a Political Factor: German and Italian Social Sciences in the Nineteenth Century
• The Discourse on Politics Between Philosophy, Science, and Profession
• In Search of the State: Political Science as an Emerging Discipline in the U.S.
• Oxford and the Emergence of Political Science in England 1945Ớ<U+001c>1960
• The Constitution of A Science of Society
• How to Make Things Which Hold Together: Social Science, Statistics and the State
• Science of Society Lost: On the Failure to Establish Sociology in Europe During the ỚSClassicalỚ<U+00fd> Period
• Social Science and the ỚSSwedish ModelỚ<U+00fd>: Sociology at the Service of the Welfare State
• The Instttutionalization of Economics: Educational Practices, State Policies, and Academic Recognition
• Political Economy to Economics Via Commerce: The Evolution of British Academic Economics 1860Ớ<U+001c>1920
• The Teaching of Political Economy in Nineteenth-Century Italy and the Characteristics of its Institutionalization
• Western Social Sciences in Space and Time
• States, Institutions, and Discourses: A Comparative Perspective on the Structuration of the Social Sciences.