The Cambridge History of Science, Volume 7: The Modern Social Sciences (The Cambridge History of Science)

Index section added. This volume provides a history of the concepts, practices, institutions, and ideologies of social sciences (including behavioural and economic sciences) since the eighteenth century. It offers original, synthetic accounts of the historical development of social knowledge, including its philosophical assumptions, its social and intellectual organization, and its relations to science, medicine, politics, bureaucracy, philosophy, religion, and the professions. Its forty-two chapters include inquiries into the genres and traditions that formed social science, the careers of the main social disciplines (psychology, economics, sociology, anthropology, political science, geography, history, and statistics), and international essays on social science in Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It also includes essays that examine the involvement of the social sciences in government, business, education, culture, and social policy. This is a broad cultural history of social science, which analyzes from a variety of perspectives its participation in the making of the modern world. Publisher's Description: This Volume Offers To General And Specialist Readers Alike The Fullest And Most Complete Survey Of The Development Of Science In The Eighteenth Century, Exploring The Implications Of The 'scientific Revolution' Of The Previous Century And The Major New Growth-points, Particularly In The Experimental Sciences. It Is Designed To Be Read As Both A Narrative And An Interpretation, And Also Used As A Work Of Reference. While Prime Attention Is Paid To Western Science, Space Is Also Given To Science In Traditional Cultures And Colonial Science. The Coverage Strikes A Balance Between Analysis Of The Cognitive Dimension Of Science Itself And Interpretation Of Its Wider Social, Economic And Cultural Significance. The Contributors, World Leaders In Their Respective Specialities, Engage With Current Historiographical And Methodological Controversies And Strike Out On Positions Of Their Own. V. 1. Ancient Science / Edited By Alexander Jones, Liba Taub -- V. 2. Medieval Science / Edited By David C. Lindberg, Michael H. Shank -- V. 3. Early Modern Science / Edited By Katharine Park, Lorraine Daston -- V. 4. Eighteenth-century Science / Edited By Roy Porter -- V. 5. The Modern Physical And Mathematical Sciences / Edited By Mary Jo Nye -- V. 6. The Modern Biological And Earth Sciences / Edited By Peter Bowler, John Pickstone -- V. 7. The Modern Social Sciences / Edited By Theodore M. Porter, Dorothy Ross -- V. 8. Modern Science In National And International Context / Edited By David N. Livingstone, Ronald L. Numbers. General Editors, David C. Lindberg And Ronald L. Numbers. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. Index section added.Forty-two essays by authors from five continents and many disciplines provide a synthetic account of the history of the social sciences - including behavioral and economic sciences since the late eighteenth century.The authors emphasize the cultural and intellectual preconditions of social science, and its contested but important role in the history of the modern world.While there are many historical books on particular disciplines, there are very few about the social sciences generally, and none that deal with so much of the world over so long a timespan. Forty-two essays by authors from five continents and many disciplines provide a synthetic account of the history of the social sciences - including behavioral and economic sciences since the late eighteenth century. The authors emphasize the cultural and intellectual preconditions of social science, and its contested but important role in the history of the modern world. While there are many historical books on particular disciplines, there are very few about the social sciences generally, and none that deal with so much of the world over so long a timespan. Writing the History of Social Science ..............1 NINETEENTH CENTURY ..............13 Social Thought and Natural Science ..............40 Evolutionary Thought ..............50 Cause Teleology and Method ..............57 Teleology in Its Many Forms ..............64 Utopian Socialism and Social Science ..............71 Toward a Religion of Humanity ..............77 How do we write the history of social science?