Author: Roger Smith
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393045437
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1074
Book Description
A comprehensive history of the human sciences -- psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics, and political science -- from their precursors in early human culture to the present.This erudite yet accessible volume in Norton's highly praised History of Science series tracks the long and circuitous path by which human beings came to see themselves and their societies as scientific subjects like any other. Beginning with the Renaissance's rediscovery of Greek psychology, political philosophy, and ethics, Roger Smith recounts how the human sciences gradually organized themselves around a scientific conception of psychology, and how this trend has continued to the present day in a circle of interactions between science and ordinary life, in which the human sciences have influenced and been influenced by popular culture.
The Norton History of the Human Sciences
Author: Roger Smith
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393045437
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1074
Book Description
A comprehensive history of the human sciences -- psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics, and political science -- from their precursors in early human culture to the present.This erudite yet accessible volume in Norton's highly praised History of Science series tracks the long and circuitous path by which human beings came to see themselves and their societies as scientific subjects like any other. Beginning with the Renaissance's rediscovery of Greek psychology, political philosophy, and ethics, Roger Smith recounts how the human sciences gradually organized themselves around a scientific conception of psychology, and how this trend has continued to the present day in a circle of interactions between science and ordinary life, in which the human sciences have influenced and been influenced by popular culture.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393045437
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1074
Book Description
A comprehensive history of the human sciences -- psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics, and political science -- from their precursors in early human culture to the present.This erudite yet accessible volume in Norton's highly praised History of Science series tracks the long and circuitous path by which human beings came to see themselves and their societies as scientific subjects like any other. Beginning with the Renaissance's rediscovery of Greek psychology, political philosophy, and ethics, Roger Smith recounts how the human sciences gradually organized themselves around a scientific conception of psychology, and how this trend has continued to the present day in a circle of interactions between science and ordinary life, in which the human sciences have influenced and been influenced by popular culture.
The Fontana/Norton History of the Human Sciences
The History of the Social Sciences since 1945
Author: Roger E. Backhouse
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107717779
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107717779
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
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 Palgrave Handbook of the History of Human Sciences
Author: David McCallum
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811672555
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1930
Book Description
The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Human Sciences offers a uniquely comprehensive and global overview of the evolution of ideas, concepts and policies within the human sciences. Drawn from histories of the social and psychological sciences, anthropology, the history and philosophy of science, and the history of ideas, this collection analyses the health and welfare of populations, evidence of the changing nature of our local communities, cities, societies or global movements, and studies the way our humanness or ‘human nature’ undergoes shifts because of broader technological shifts or patterns of living. This Handbook serves as an authoritative reference to a vast source of representative scholarly work in interdisciplinary fields, a means of understanding patterns of social change and the conduct of institutions, as well as the histories of these ‘ways of knowing’ probe the contexts, circumstances and conditions which underpin continuity and change in the way we count, analyse and understand ourselves in our different social worlds. It reflects a critical scholarly interest in both traditional and emerging concerns on the relations between the biological and social sciences, and between these and changes and continuities in societies and conducts, as 21st century research moves into new intellectual and geographic territories, more diverse fields and global problematics.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811672555
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1930
Book Description
The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Human Sciences offers a uniquely comprehensive and global overview of the evolution of ideas, concepts and policies within the human sciences. Drawn from histories of the social and psychological sciences, anthropology, the history and philosophy of science, and the history of ideas, this collection analyses the health and welfare of populations, evidence of the changing nature of our local communities, cities, societies or global movements, and studies the way our humanness or ‘human nature’ undergoes shifts because of broader technological shifts or patterns of living. This Handbook serves as an authoritative reference to a vast source of representative scholarly work in interdisciplinary fields, a means of understanding patterns of social change and the conduct of institutions, as well as the histories of these ‘ways of knowing’ probe the contexts, circumstances and conditions which underpin continuity and change in the way we count, analyse and understand ourselves in our different social worlds. It reflects a critical scholarly interest in both traditional and emerging concerns on the relations between the biological and social sciences, and between these and changes and continuities in societies and conducts, as 21st century research moves into new intellectual and geographic territories, more diverse fields and global problematics.
The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 7, The Modern Social Sciences
Author: David C. Lindberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521594424
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
An account of the history of the social sciences since the late eighteenth century.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521594424
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
An account of the history of the social sciences since the late eighteenth century.
Reader's Guide to the History of Science
Author: Arne Hessenbruch
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134262949
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 965
Book Description
The Reader's Guide to the History of Science looks at the literature of science in some 550 entries on individuals (Einstein), institutions and disciplines (Mathematics), general themes (Romantic Science) and central concepts (Paradigm and Fact). The history of science is construed widely to include the history of medicine and technology as is reflected in the range of disciplines from which the international team of 200 contributors are drawn.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134262949
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 965
Book Description
The Reader's Guide to the History of Science looks at the literature of science in some 550 entries on individuals (Einstein), institutions and disciplines (Mathematics), general themes (Romantic Science) and central concepts (Paradigm and Fact). The history of science is construed widely to include the history of medicine and technology as is reflected in the range of disciplines from which the international team of 200 contributors are drawn.
Servants of Nature
Author: Lewis Pyenson
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393046144
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Explores the interaction between scientific practice and public life
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393046144
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Explores the interaction between scientific practice and public life
Anatomies: A Cultural History of the Human Body
Author: Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393348849
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Combining science, history, and culture, explores every aspect of human anatomy from ancient body art to modern plastic surgery, discussing why some people are left-handed and why some cultures think the soul resides in the liver.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393348849
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Combining science, history, and culture, explores every aspect of human anatomy from ancient body art to modern plastic surgery, discussing why some people are left-handed and why some cultures think the soul resides in the liver.
The Making of the Human Sciences in China
Author: Howard Chiang
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004397620
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 565
Book Description
This volume provides a history of how “the human” has been constituted as a subject of scientific inquiry in China from the seventeenth century to the present.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004397620
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 565
Book Description
This volume provides a history of how “the human” has been constituted as a subject of scientific inquiry in China from the seventeenth century to the present.
A Historiography of the Modern Social Sciences
Author: Roger E. Backhouse
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107037727
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
A Historiography of the Modern Social Sciences exposes parallels and contrasts in the way the histories of the social sciences are written.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107037727
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
A Historiography of the Modern Social Sciences exposes parallels and contrasts in the way the histories of the social sciences are written.