The History of the Social Sciences Since 1945

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-521-71776-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 446 g

This compact volume covers the main developments in the social sciences since the Second World War. Chapters on economics, human geography, political science, psychology, social anthropology, and sociology will interest anyone wanting short, accessible histories of those disciplines, all written by experts in the relevant field; they will also make it easy for readers to make comparisons between disciplines. A final chapter proposes a blueprint for a history of the social sciences as a whole. Whereas most of the existing literature considers the social sciences in isolation from one other, this volume shows that they have much in common; for example, they have responded to common problems using overlapping methods, and cross-disciplinary activities have been widespread.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Backhouse, Roger E.

Fontaine, Philippe

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Human- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Geschichte der Soziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction Roger E. Backhouse and Philippe Fontaine; 2. Psychology Mitchell G. Ash; 3. Economics Roger E. Backhouse; 4. Political science Robert Adcock and Mark Bevir; 5. Sociology Jennifer Platt; 6. Social anthropology Adam Kuper; 7. Human geography Ron Johnston; 8. Towards a history of the social sciences Roger E. Backhouse and Philippe Fontaine.

Über Autor(innen)

Backhouse, Roger E.
Roger E. Backhouse was a lecturer at University College London and at the University of Keele, before moving to the University of Birmingham in 1980, where he has been Professor of the History and Philosophy of Economics since 1996. In 2009 he took a part-time position at Erasmus University Rotterdam. After writing two textbooks on macroeconomics, he moved into the history of economics and methodology, on which he has published many articles in the leading journals, including History of Political Economy, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, and European Journal of the History of Economic Thought. His books include A History of Modern Economic Analysis (1985), Economists and the Economy (1994), Truth and Progress in Economic Knowledge (1997), and The Penguin History of Economics (2002) (published in North America as The Ordinary Business of Life [2002]). Books he has edited include The Cambridge Companion to Keynes (with Bradley W. Bateman). He has been review editor of the Economic Journal, editor of the Journal of Economic Methodology, and associate editor of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought.

Fontaine, Philippe
Philippe Fontaine is Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan and a Senior Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France. In 2003-2004, he was Ludwig Lachmann Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy of the London School of Economics and Political Science. Professor Fontaine is the co-editor of The Unsocial Social Science? Economics and Neighboring Disciplines since 1945 (forthcoming). He has written for a number of journals, including Economics and Philosophy, History of Political Economy, Isis, Science in Context, and the British Journal of Sociology. He is associate editor of the Revue de Philosophie Économique. In 2005, Professor Fontaine received the Best Article Award of the Forum for the History of Human Science. In 2008, he was the recipient of the prix d'excellence en sciences sociales (Foundation Mattei Dogan/CNRS).