The origins of American social science

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Label

The origins of American social science

Statement of responsibility

Dorothy Ross

Creator

• Ross, Dorothy, 1936-

Subject

• Economics -- United States -- History
• Political science -- United States -- History
• Social sciences -- United States -- History
• Sociology -- United States -- History

Language

eng

Summary

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. Professor 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. Professor Ross shows how each of the social science disciplines, while developing their inherited intellectual traditions, responded to change in historical consciousness, political needs, professional structures, and the conceptions of science available to them. This is a comprehensive book, which looks broadly at American social science in its historical context and to demonstrate the central importance of the national ideology of American exceptionalism to the development of the social sciences and to American social thought generally.--

Member of

• Ideas in context, 19

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Ideas in context
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Series volume

19