A history and philosophy of the social sciences
By: Peter T. Manicas.
Publisher: Basil Blackwell
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Oxford [Oxfordshire]; New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
Subjects: Social sciences -- History.; Social sciences -- Philosophy.
Description: This ambitious critical history of the variety of disciplines we group together as the social sciences argues that the defining characteristic of social science, both historically and in the present, is ideology. Based originally on a flawed ideal of science, the 'social sciences' have incorporated and refined a set of assumptions about the nature of state and society, assumptions which have been institutionalized with the growth of modern universities.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [319]-335.
Includes index.