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A History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences

ISBN: 978-0-631-16583-5
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January 1991, Wiley-Blackwell
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Acknowledgements vi

Author's Note viii

Part I The Critical Ideas

Introduction 3

1 Science and Philosophy 7

2 Of the Commonwealth 24

3 The Emergence of Political Economy 37

4 Progress: The Laws of Development 53

5 The German Conception of History: Herder or Hegel? 73

6 Scientific Socialism: Marxian Dialectics 97

7 From Ranke to Max Weber 117

8 Economy and Society: The Sociology of Pareto and Durkheim 141

9 The Genesis of Psychology 168

Part II The Modern Social Sciences

10 Capitalism, Science, and the University 193

11 The Americanization of Social Science 213

Part III Realist Philosophy of Social Science

12 The Critique of Empiricism 241

13 A Realist Social Science 266

14 Psychology: Theoretical and Applied 294

Bibliography 319

Index 336

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