manicas peter theodore (1 Ergebnisse)

1st edition. Review copy. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: vii, 345p; 23cm. Notes: Bibliography: p319-335. - Includes index. Contents: The critical ideas: Science and philosophy; Of the commonwealth; The emergence of political economy; Progress: the laws of development; The German conception of history: Herder or Hegel?; Scientific socialism: Marxian dialectics ; From Ranke to Max Weber; Economy and society: the sociology of Pareto and Durkheim; The genesis of psychology -- The modern social sciences: Capitalism, science, and the university; The Americanization of social science -- Realist philosophy of social science: The critique of empiricism; A realist social science; Psychology: theoretical and applied. Subjects: Social sciences History. Social sciences - philosophy and theory. Social sciences ca 1630-1985 Philosophical perspectives. Genre: History. Summary: Peter Manicas argues that ideology is the defining characteristic of the social sciences in this review of the discipline. He contends that social science was originally based on a false ideal of science and that the historical assumptions of it are, in general, too "Eurocentric". 3 Kg.