The Emergence of Professional Social Science

The Emergence of Professional Social Science
Title The Emergence of Professional Social Science PDF eBook
Author Thomas L. Haskell
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages 0
Release 2001-01-03
Genre Science
ISBN 9780801865732

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The history of the rise of "social science." Thomas L. Haskell's The Emergence of Professional Social Science signaled the beginning of his distinguished career as a historian of ideas and critic of historical logic. His first book, now available in this paperback edition with a new preface by the author, explores the background and premises of the American Social Science Association (ASSA)—the first American group dedicated to the "scientific" study of humanity and society. Haskell thus helps us to understand a sea change in American intellectual life—the rise of this thing called "social science," the power and implications of the new trend toward secular professionalism, and, ultimately, how it happened that commonsense modes of explanation in terms of conscious choices by individuals came to be overshadowed by a mode of explanation that systematically construes people as creatures of circumstance. How, Haskell asks in his conclusion, did the development of modern society alter "the way we explain human affairs and conceive of man?" This edition includes a new appendix, listing all articles appearing in the Journal of Social Science from 1869 to 1901.

The Emergence of Professional Social Science

The Emergence of Professional Social Science
Title The Emergence of Professional Social Science PDF eBook
Author Thomas L. Haskell
Publisher Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Pages 294
Release 1977
Genre Social Science
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The History of the Social Sciences since 1945

The History of the Social Sciences since 1945
Title The History of the Social Sciences since 1945 PDF eBook
Author Roger E. Backhouse
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 273
Release 2010-05-24
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1107717779

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This compact volume covers the main developments in the social sciences since the Second World War. Chapters on economics, human geography, political science, psychology, social anthropology, and sociology will interest anyone wanting short, accessible histories of those disciplines, all written by experts in the relevant field; they will also make it easy for readers to make comparisons between disciplines. A final chapter proposes a blueprint for a history of the social sciences as a whole. Whereas most of the existing literature considers the social sciences in isolation from one other, this volume shows that they have much in common; for example, they have responded to common problems using overlapping methods, and cross-disciplinary activities have been widespread.

The Navy Chaplain

The Navy Chaplain
Title The Navy Chaplain PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 72
Release 1989
Genre
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What is Professional Social Work?

What is Professional Social Work?
Title What is Professional Social Work? PDF eBook
Author Leroy Allen Halbert
Publisher
Pages 162
Release 1923
Genre Social service
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Social Science Research

Social Science Research
Title Social Science Research PDF eBook
Author Anol Bhattacherjee
Publisher CreateSpace
Pages 156
Release 2012-04-01
Genre Science
ISBN 9781475146127

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This book is designed to introduce doctoral and graduate students to the process of conducting scientific research in the social sciences, business, education, public health, and related disciplines. It is a one-stop, comprehensive, and compact source for foundational concepts in behavioral research, and can serve as a stand-alone text or as a supplement to research readings in any doctoral seminar or research methods class. This book is currently used as a research text at universities on six continents and will shortly be available in nine different languages.

The Americanization of Social Science

The Americanization of Social Science
Title The Americanization of Social Science PDF eBook
Author David Haney
Publisher Temple University Press
Pages 297
Release 2008-01-28
Genre History
ISBN 1592137156

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A highly readable introduction to and overview of the postwar social sciences in the United States, The Americanization of Social Science explores a critical period in the evolution of American sociology’s professional identity from the late 1940s through the early 1960s. David Paul Haney contends that during this time leading sociologists encouraged a professional secession from public engagement in the name of establishing the discipline’s scientific integrity. According to Haney, influential practitioners encouraged a willful withdrawal from public sociology by separating their professional work from public life. He argues that this separation diminished sociologists’ capacity for conveying their findings to wider publics, especially given their ambivalence towards the mass media, as witnessed by the professional estrangement that scholars like David Riesman and C. Wright Mills experienced as their writing found receptive lay audiences. He argues further that this sense of professional insularity has inhibited sociology’s participation in the national discussion about social issues to the present day.