The Emergence of Professional Social Science
Subtitle: The American Social Science Association and the Nineteenth-Century Crisis of Authority
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: December 13, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780801865732
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Sociology, Social Studies; Sociology; History; Social Science; USA; Sociology - General; History / United States / General; General; American Social Science Associ; American Social Science Association; Social sciences; United States
First sentence: The immediate subject of this study, the birth, life, and death of the American Social Science Association, is not an end in itself but a point of entry into a larger subject: the rise to cultural dominance of the social sciences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.