A history and theory of the social sciences : not all that is solid melts into air /
Peter Wagner.
Bok Engelsk 2001
| Utgitt | London : : SAGE, , c2001.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (viii, 200 p.).
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction Historicising the Social Sciences; Part I - Reconsidering the History of the Social Sciences; Chapter 1 - As a Philosophical Science Unjustifiable, as an Empirical Science Anything else but New; Chapter 2 - Time of Politics, and not of Law; Chapter 3 - Adjusting Social Relations; Chapter 4 - The Mythical Promise of Societal Renewal; Chapter 5 - Out of Step; Part II - Rethinking Key Concepts of the Social Sciences; Chapter 6 - Choice and Decision-Making; Chapter 7 - Action and Institution; Chapter 8 - Culture (with Heidrun Friese). - Chapter 9 - Society Chapter 10 - Polity; Chapter 11 - Modernity; Notes; References; Index. - 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.. - Specialized.
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| ISBN | 0-7619-6568-8. - 1-283-88102-0. - 1-4462-6451-3
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