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The Rise of the Social Sciences and the Formation of Modernity: Conceptual Change in Context, 1750-1850 (Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook) by Johan Heilbron, Lars Magnusson, Björn Wittrock is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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This volume offers one of the first systematic analyses of the rise of modern social science. Contrary to the standard accounts of various social science disciplines, the essays in this volume demonstrate that modern social science actually emerged during the critical period between 1750 and 1850. It is shown that the social sciences were a crucial element in the conceptual and epistemic revolution, which parallelled and partly underpinned the political and economic transformations of the modern
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Johan Heilbron, Lars Magnusson, Björn Wittrock
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780792345893
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Political Science, Philosophy, Social Science
- Rating
- 5 / 5 (1 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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