Emergence of Professional Social Science The American Social Science Association and the Nineteenth-Century Crisis of Authority

Name: Emergence of Professional Social Science The American Social Science Association and the Nineteenth-Century Crisis of Authority
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ISBN: 9780801865732

ISBN-10: 0801865735

ISBN-13: 9780801865732

Edition: 2001

Authors: Thomas L. Haskell

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Thomas L. Haskell's The Emergence of Professional Social Science signaled the beginning of his distinguished career as a historian of ideas and critic of historical logic. His first book, now available in this paperback edition with a new preface by the author, explores the background and premises of the American Social Science Association (ASSA)--the first American group dedicated to the "scientific" study of humanity and society. Haskell thus helps us to understand a sea change in American intellectual life--the rise of this thing called "social science," the power and implications of the new trend toward secular professionalism, and, ultimately, how it happened that commonsense modes of…

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List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 1/3/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.94" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Preface to the Johns Hopkins Edition
Preface to the Original Edition
Introduction: What Happened in the 1890's?	p. 1
Interdependence and the Rise of Professional Social Science	p. 24
Frank Sanborn's Association	p. 48
The Antebellum Origins of the Movement to Establish Authority	p. 63
The Founding and Formative Years of the ASSA, 1865-69	p. 91
The 1870's: Near Collapse	p. 122
The Proposed Merger of the ASSA and the Johns Hopkins University	p. 144
The Founding of the Historical and Economics Associations, 1884-85	p. 168
From Social Science to Sociology: The 1880's and 1890's	p. 190
Professionalism Unhinged	p. 211
Conclusion: Explanation and Causal Attribution in Modern Society	p. 234
App. A	p. 257
App. B	p. 259
Bibliographical Note	p. 285
Author-Title Index	p. 287
Index	p. 295
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