A History and Theory of the Social Sciences Not All That Is Solid Melts into Air 1st Edition by Peter Wagner ISBN 0761965696 978-0761965695
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ISBN 10: 0761965696
ISBN 13: 978-0761965695
Author: Peter Wagner
Divided into two parts, this book examines the train of social theory from the 19th century, through to the `organization of modernity′, in relation to ideas of social planning, and as contributors to the `rationalistic revolution′ of the `golden age′ of capitalism in the 1950s and 60s. Part two examines key concepts in the social sciences. It begins with some of the broadest concepts used by social scientists: choice, decision, action and institution and moves on to examine the `collectivist alternative′: the concepts of society, culture and polity, which are often dismissed as untenable by postmodernists today. This is a major contribution to contemporary social theory and provides a host of essential insights into the task of social scie
A History and Theory of the Social Sciences Not All That Is Solid Melts into Air 1st Table of contents:
Introduction Historicising the Social Sciences
Part I – Reconsidering the History of the Social Sciences
Chapter 1 – As a Philosophical Science Unjustifiable, as an Empirical Science Anything else but New
Chapter 2 – Time of Politics, and not of Law
Chapter 3 – Adjusting Social Relations
Chapter 4 – The Mythical Promise of Societal Renewal
Chapter 5 – Out of Step
Part II – Rethinking Key Concepts of the Social Sciences
Chapter 6 – Choice and Decision-Making
Chapter 7 – Action and Institution
Chapter 8 – Culture (with Heidrun Friese)
Chapter 9 – Society
Chapter 10 – Polity
Chapter 11 – Modernity
Notes
References
Index
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