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Social theory is an expression commonly used to avoid the more narrowly disciplinary label of sociological theory. 1 The shift from disciplinary divisions to transdisciplinary sensibilities would require a study of its own, but since it is more than a passing fad, it implies a serious reconsideration of the historical development of the social sciences as well. What was social science like before it became disciplined? The question is not easily answered, because historical overviews tend to reproduce the disciplinary order. Many reserve an introductory part for the 'prehistory' of the discipline, portraying a gallery of 'forerunners' and 'precursors', but all too often the analysis remains anecdotal and anachronistic. And yet the central concepts and assumptions of modern social science have a history that is considerably longer than that of the academic disciplines as they have become established in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The modern notion of the state, for example, may be said to have taken shape during the first half of the seventeenth century in the work of authors such as Bodin and Hobbes. In their writings, as Quentin Skinner has argued, the state became a s

Author

Kivisto, Peter

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN