Discourses on Society The Shaping of the Social Science Disciplines /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wagner, Peter (Editor), Wittrock, Björn (Editor), Whitley, Richard (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• 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.

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...