The Cambridge History of Science, Volume 7: The Modern Social Sciences

Provides a history of the concepts, practices, institutions, and ideologies of social sciences (including behavioural and economic sciences) since C18. Chapters include; inquiries into the genres and traditions that formed social science; the careers of the main social disciplines (psychology, economics, sociology, anthropology, political science, geography, history, and statistics); and international essays on social science in Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

1. Introduction: writing the history of social science Theodore M. Porter and Dorothy Ross; Part I. Sciences of the Social to the Late Nineteenth Century: 2. Genres and objects of social inquiry from the enlightenment to 1890 Theodore M. Porter; 3. Social thought and natural science Johan Heilbron; 4. Cause, teleology, and method Stephen Turner; 5. Utopian socialism and social science Antoine Picon; 6. Social surveys in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Eileen Yeo; 7. Scientific ethnography and travel, 1750-1850 Harry Liebersohn; 8. History and historicism Johnson Kent Wright; 9. Bringing the psyche into scientific focus Jan Goldstein; 10. Continental political economy from the physiocrats to the marginal revolution Keith Tribe; 11. British economic theory from Locke to Marshall Margaret Schabas; 12. Marx and Marxism Terrell Carver; Part II. The Disciplines in Western Europe and North America since about 1880: 13. Changing contours of the social science disciplines Dorothy Ross; 14. Statistics and statistical methods Theodore Porter; 15. Psychology Mitchell Ash; 16. Economics Mary Morgan; 17. Political science James Farr; 18. Sociology Robert Bannister; 19. Anthropology Adam Kuper; 20. Geography as a social science Marie-Claire Robic; 21. History and the social sciences Jacques Revel; Part III. The Internationalization of the Social Sciences: 22. The sciences of modernity in a disparate world Andrew Barshay; 23. The social sciences in Latin America Jorge Balan; 24. Psychology in Russia and Central Eastern Europe Jaromir Janousek and Irina Sirotkina; 25. Sociology in the Near East Alain Roussillon; 26. Economics, political science, and anthropology in Africa Owen Sichone; 27. The social sciences in India Partha Chatterjee; 28. The social sciences in China Bettina Gransow; 29. The social sciences in Japan Andrew Barshay; Part IV. Social Science as Discourse and Practice in Public and Private Life: 30. The uses of the social sciences Peter Wagner; 31. Managing the economy Alain Desrosieres; 32. Management and accounting Peter Miller; 33. Polling in politics and industry Susan Herbst; 34. Social science and social planning during the twentieth century Peter Wagner; 35. Social welfare Ellen Fitzpatrick; 36. Education Julie Reuben; 37. The culture of intelligence John Carson; 38. Psychologism and the child Ellen Herman; 39. Psychiatry Elizabeth Lunbeck; 40. Gender Rosalind Rosenberg; 41. Race Elazar Barkan; 42. Cultural relativism David Hollinger; 43. Modernization Michael Latham.