Title The origins of American social science / Dorothy Ross.

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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991.

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University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	300.973 R823O	Check Shelf

Description	xxii, 508 pages ; 24 cm.
Series	Ideas in context
	Ideas in context.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-480) and indexes.
Contents	Part I. European social science in antebellum America. 1. The discovery of modernity -- 2. The American exceptionalist vision -- Part II. The Crisis of American exceptionalism 1865-1896. 3. Establishment of the social science disciplines -- 4. The Threat of socialism in economics and sociology -- Part III. Progressive social science, 1896-1914. 5. The Liberal revision of American exceptionalism -- 6. Marginalism and historicism in economics -- 7. Toward a sociology of social control -- 8. From historico-politics to political science -- Part IV. American social science as the study of natural process, 1908-1929. 9. New models of American liberal change -- 10. Scientism.
Summary	Examines how American social science modelled itself on natural science and liberal politics.
Subject	Social sciences -- United States -- History.
	Economics -- United States -- History.
	Sociology -- United States -- History.
	Political science -- United States -- History.
	Social Sciences -- history.
	Economics -- history.
	Sociology -- history.
	Economía política - Estados Unidos - Historia.
	Política - Estados Unidos - Historia.
	Science politique - États-Unis - Histoire.
	Sciences sociales - États-Unis - Histoire.
	Sociologie - États-Unis - Histoire.
	Sociología - Estados Unidos - Historia.
	Économie politique - États-Unis - Histoire.
	Geschichte.
	Politische Wissenschaft.
	Sozialwissenschaften.
	Soziologie.
	Wirtschaft.
	United States.
	Economics. (OCoLC)fst00902116
	Political science. (OCoLC)fst01069781
	Social sciences. (OCoLC)fst01122877
	Sociology. (OCoLC)fst01123875
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Sozialwissenschaften (DE-588)4055916-6
	Geschichte (DE-588)4020517-4
	Sociale wetenschappen.
	United States.
Chronological Term	Geschichte Anfänge-1919.
	Geschichte 1865-1929.
	Geschichte Anfänge-1919
	Geschichte 1865-1929
Indexed Term	Social sciences History
	United States
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN	0521350921
	9780521350921
	0421350921
	052142836X (pbk.)
	9780521428361 (pbk.)

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