Social Sciences and Modern States
Subtitle: National Experiences and Theoretical Crossroads (Advances in Political Science)
Contributors: Peter Wagner (Editor); Carol Hirschon Weiss (Editor); Bjvrn Wittrock (Editor); Hellmut Wollmann (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 26, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780521381987
Subjects: Political structure & processes; Social sciences; Political Science; Social Policy; Social Sciences Research; History - General History; Politics/International Relations; General; History : General; Policy sciences--Research--Case studies; Political Science / General; Case studies; Policy sciences; Research
First sentence: The social sciences came into being as part of the modernization of Western societies in the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.