The Norton history of the human sciences
By: Roger Smith.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Series: Norton history of science
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1036
Subjects: Social sciences -- History.
Description: This book is a comprehensive history of the human sciences--psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics, and political science--from their precursors in early human culture to the present. This accessible volume in Norton's History of Science series tracks the long and circuitous path by which human beings came to see themselves and their societies as scientific subjects like any other. Beginning with the Renaissance's rediscovery of Greek psychology, political philosophy, and ethics, Roger Smith recounts how the human sciences gradually organized themselves around a scientific conception of psychology, and how this trend has continued to the present day in a circle of interactions between science and ordinary life, in which the human sciences have influenced and been influenced by popular culture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [871]-1008) and index.
Originally published: The Fontana history of the human sciences. London : Fontana, 1997.