Name: The History and Philosophy of Social Science
ISBN: 9780203423226

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The History and Philosophy of Social Science

ABSTRACT

Scott Gordon provides a magisterial review of the historical development of the social sciences from their beginnings in renaissance Italy to the present day.

chapter 1|15 pages

Sociality and social science A. The concept of ‘society’ B. Types of sociality C. Altriciality and enculturation

chapter 2|17 pages

The rise of the Age of Science B. The scientific attitude Appendix: The sociology of science

chapter 3|24 pages

Social laws A. Nomological propositions B. Nomological levels C. Social and natural science: some preliminary remarks D. Positive and normative propositions

chapter 4|31 pages

Political theory and political philosophy B. The Venetian constitution D. Montesquieu’s interpretation of the English constitution

chapter 5|12 pages

Physiocracy: the first economic model A. Eighteenth-century France and the Physiocratic school B. The Physiocratic model C. The significance of Physiocracy in the history of social science

chapter 6|11 pages

The methodology of modelling A. Examples of models B. Some features of models

chapter 7|37 pages

The Scottish Enlightenment of the eighteenth century A. Scottish moral philosophy

chapter 8|20 pages

Progress and perfection A. The idea of progress B. The idea of a perfect social order

chapter 9|43 pages

Classical political economy D. The model of economic development E. International trade

chapter 10|37 pages

The idea of harmonious order

chapter 11|23 pages

Utilitarianism

chapter 12|34 pages

French positivism and the beginnings of sociology

chapter 13|85 pages

The Marxian theory of society

chapter 14|21 pages

The methodology of history

chapter 15|83 pages

The development of sociological theory

chapter 16|52 pages

Biology, social science, and social policy B. The reduction of sociology to biology C. Biology and the social sciences

chapter 17|43 pages

The development of economic theory

chapter 18|80 pages

The foundations of science

The History and Philosophy of Social Science