History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences

by Peter T. Manicas

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631165835
• ISBN13: 9780631165835
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"