02947nam 2200673 a 450 991082208380332120161219111311.01-283-88102-01-4462-6451-30-7619-6568-8(CKB)2550000000103897(EBL)1023972(OCoLC)823717101(SSID)ssj0000675660(PQKBManifestationID)11460117(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000675660(PQKBWorkID)10670320(PQKB)10958353(MiAaPQ)EBC1023972(OCoLC)606553358(StDuBDS)EDZ0000064202(Au-PeEL)EBL1023972(CaPaEBR)ebr10567151(CaONFJC)MIL419352(FINmELB)ELB136518(PPN)238400352(EXLCZ)99255000000010389720120327d2001 fy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrA history and theory of the social sciences[electronic resource] not all that is solid melts into air /Peter WagnerLondon SAGEc20011 online resource (viii, 200 p.)Theory, culture & societyDescription based upon print version of record.1-4462-1972-0 0-7619-6569-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction Historicising the Social Sciences; Part I - Reconsidering the History of the Social Sciences; Chapter 1 - As a Philosophical Science Unjustifiable, as an Empirical Science Anything else but New; Chapter 2 - Time of Politics, and not of Law; Chapter 3 - Adjusting Social Relations; Chapter 4 - The Mythical Promise of Societal Renewal; Chapter 5 - Out of Step; Part II - Rethinking Key Concepts of the Social Sciences; Chapter 6 - Choice and Decision-Making; Chapter 7 - Action and Institution; Chapter 8 - Culture (with Heidrun Friese)Chapter 9 - Society Chapter 10 - Polity; Chapter 11 - Modernity; Notes; References; IndexThis work provides a unique, systematic account of the emergence and development of the social sciences in relation to the politico-institutional development of Western societies - linking a history to the theory.Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)Social sciencesHistory19th centurySocial sciencesHistory20th centurySocial sciencesPhilosophySocial sciencesHistorySocial sciencesHistorySocial sciencesPhilosophy.300.9Wagner Peter1956 September 18-541765StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910822083803321A history and theory of the social sciences3943527UNINA