Open the Social Sciences Report of the Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social Sciences

Name: Open the Social Sciences Report of the Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social Sciences
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ISBN: 9780804727273

ISBN-10: 0804727279

ISBN-13: 9780804727273

Edition: 1996

Authors: Immanuel Wallerstein

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Concerned about the worldwide state of the social sciences—the relations among the disciplines, and their relationship with both the humanities and the natural sciences—the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, based in Lisbon, established in 1993 the Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social Sciences. It comprised a distinguished international group of scholars—six from the social sciences, two from the natural sciences, and two from the humanities. The report first explores how social science was historically constructed as a form of knowledge and why it was divided into a specific set of relatively standard disciplines in a process that went on between the late eighteenth…

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List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 3/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 124
Size: 5.00" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Foreword


Members of the Commission



The Historical Construction of the Social Sciences, from the Eighteenth Century to 1945



Debates Within the Social Sciences, 1945 to the Present



What Kind of Social Science Shall We Now Build?



Conclusion: Restructuring the Social Sciences