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Modernism and the Social Sciences: Anglo-American Exchanges, c.1918-1980
Mark Bevir
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hardcover. This study explores the rise and nature of modernist approaches to economics, sociology, international relations, administration, language, history and anthropology. Editor(s): Bevir, Mark. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: HBTB; J; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
This wide-ranging and original study reveals how prevalent modernism has become in the social sciences. With contributions from a number of leading international scholars, Modernism and the Social Sciences explores the rise and nature of modernist tropes and approaches within social sciences such as economics, econometrics, behaviourism, sociology, administrative science, linguistics, history and anthropology. The essays demonstrate how the social sciences turned away from the developmental historicisms of the nineteenth century. Instead, social scientists have become increasingly committed to synchronic and formal explanations that rely on models, correlations and ideal types, and they have increasingly appealed to systems and functions ... Read more
This wide-ranging and original study reveals how prevalent modernism has become in the social sciences. With contributions from a number of leading international scholars, Modernism and the Social Sciences explores the rise and nature of modernist tropes and approaches within social sciences such as economics, econometrics, behaviourism, sociology, administrative science, linguistics, history and anthropology. The essays demonstrate how the social sciences turned away from the developmental historicisms of the nineteenth century. Instead, social scientists have become increasingly committed to synchronic and formal explanations that rely on models, correlations and ideal types, and they have increasingly appealed to systems and functions ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107173965
SKU
V9781107173965
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Ref
99-18
About Mark Bevir
Mark Bevir is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for British Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of various books, including A Theory of Governance (2013), Governance: A Very Short Introduction (2012), The Making of British Socialism (2011), Democratic Governance (2010) and The Logic of the History of Ideas (1999).
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