UID:
almafu_9960119746902883
Format:
1 online resource (xxii, 508 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-52798-5
Series Statement:
Ideas in context ; 19
Content:
Focusing on the disciplines of economics, sociology, political science, and history, this book examines how American social science came to model itself on natural science and liberal politics. Professor Ross argues that American social science receives its distinctive stamp from the ideology of American exceptionalism, the idea that America occupies an exceptional place in history, based on her republican government and wide economic opportunity. Professor Ross shows how each of the social science disciplines, while developing their inherited intellectual traditions, responded to change in historical consciousness, political needs, professional structures, and the conceptions of science available to them. This is a comprehensive book, which looks broadly at American social science in its historical context and to demonstrate the central importance of the national ideology of American exceptionalism to the development of the social sciences and to American social thought generally.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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The American exceptionalist vision --
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Lieber's collegiate political science --
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The Gilded Age crisis --
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Exceptionalism revised in political economy: Francis Walker --
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The beginnings of sociology: Sumner and Ward --
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Historicist challenge and exceptionalist response from Ely to Clark --
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The sociologists' quarrel: Small versus Giddings --
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Marginalsim and historicism in economics --
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Veblen's historico-evolutionism --
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Small's Chicago and Giddings' Columbia --
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The liberal exceptionalist sociologies of Ross and Cooley --
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Bentley and Beard's political science --
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Chicago and Columbia's sociologies: Thomas, Park, and Chapin --
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From Veblen to institutional economics: Hoxie and Mitchell --
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Scientism.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-42836-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-35092-1
Language:
English
URL:
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511527982
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