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The Origins of American Social Science (Ideas in Context)

Dorothy Ross

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Description:Focusing on the disciplines of economics, sociology, political science, and history, this book examines how American social science came to model itself on natural science and liberal politics.Ross argues that American social science receives its distinctive stamp from the ideology of American exceptionalism, the idea that America occupies an exceptional place in history, based on her republican government and wide economic opportunity. Under the influence of this national self-conception, Americans believed that their history was set on a millennial course, exempted from historical change and from the mass poverty and class conflict of Europe.Not until after the Civil War did industrialization force Americans to confront the idea and reality of historical change. The social science disciplines had their origin in that crisis and their development is a story of efforts to evade and tame historical transformation in the interest of exceptionalist ideals.Ross shows how each of the social science disciplines, while developing their inherited intellectual traditions, responded to changes in historical consciousness, political needs, professional structures, and the conceptions of science available to them."A first-rate intellectual history chronicling the emergence of the secular social sciences…a richly detailed history of the economic theories, sociological disputations, and political science wranglings that characterized, and to some degree shaped, the development of the social sciences in American universities.…an important and stimulating work." -- John L. Recchiuti, New York Times Book Review"Ross has written the first truly integrated intellectual history of the social sciences. Her core, densely informative narratives are models of wise and judicious scholarship. Origins is a major achievement, the synthesis for our time." -- Daniel T. Rodgers, Intellectual History NewsletterWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Origins of American Social Science (Ideas in Context). To get started finding The Origins of American Social Science (Ideas in Context), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Release: 1991

ISBN: 052142836X

Description: Focusing on the disciplines of economics, sociology, political science, and history, this book examines how American social science came to model itself on natural science and liberal politics.Ross argues that American social science receives its distinctive stamp from the ideology of American exceptionalism, the idea that America occupies an exceptional place in history, based on her republican government and wide economic opportunity. Under the influence of this national self-conception, Americans believed that their history was set on a millennial course, exempted from historical change and from the mass poverty and class conflict of Europe.Not until after the Civil War did industrialization force Americans to confront the idea and reality of historical change. The social science disciplines had their origin in that crisis and their development is a story of efforts to evade and tame historical transformation in the interest of exceptionalist ideals.Ross shows how each of the social science disciplines, while developing their inherited intellectual traditions, responded to changes in historical consciousness, political needs, professional structures, and the conceptions of science available to them."A first-rate intellectual history chronicling the emergence of the secular social sciences…a richly detailed history of the economic theories, sociological disputations, and political science wranglings that characterized, and to some degree shaped, the development of the social sciences in American universities.…an important and stimulating work." -- John L. Recchiuti, New York Times Book Review"Ross has written the first truly integrated intellectual history of the social sciences. Her core, densely informative narratives are models of wise and judicious scholarship. Origins is a major achievement, the synthesis for our time." -- Daniel T. Rodgers, Intellectual History NewsletterWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Origins of American Social Science (Ideas in Context). To get started finding The Origins of American Social Science (Ideas in Context), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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