A history and theory of the social sciences : not all that is solid melts into air /
This work provides a unique, systematic account of the emergence and development of the social sciences in relation to the politico-institutional development of Western societies - linking a history to the theory.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London, England ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
SAGE,
2001
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| Series: | Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- PART ONE: RECONSIDERING THE HISTORY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES; As a Philosophical Science Unjustifiable, as an Empirical Science Anything Else but New; Classical Sociology and the First Crisis of Modernity; Time of Politics, and Not of Law; Political Analysis during the First Crisis of Modernity; Adjusting Social Relations; Social Science and the Organization of Modernity; The Mythical Promise of Societal Renewal; Social Science and Reform Coalitions; Out of Step; The Social Sciences in the Second Crisis of Modernity; PART TWO: RETHINKING KEY CONCEPTS OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES; Choice and Decision-Making; Action and Institution; Culture (with Heidrun Friese); Society; Polity; Modernity.
