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Focusing on the disciplines of economics, sociology, political science, and history, this book examines how American social science came to model itself on natural science and liberal politics. Ross argues that American social science receives its distinctive stamp from the ideology of American exceptionalism, the idea that America occupies an exceptional place in history, based on her republican government and wide economic opportunity. Under the influence of this national self-conception, Americans believed that their history was set on a millennial course, exempted from historical change and from the mass poverty and class conflict of Europe. Not until after the Civil War did industrialization force Americans to confront the idea and reality of historical change. The social science disciplines had their origin in that crisis and their development is a story of efforts to evade and tame historical transformation in the interest of exceptionalist ideals. Ross shows how each of the social science disciplines, while developing their inherited intellectual traditions, responded to changes in historical consciousness, political needs, professional structures, and the conceptions of sc

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Author

Ross, Dorothy, 1936-

Publisher

Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780511527982

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, History, Social Science