LEADER 03608nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910781905803321 005 20230912155631.0 010 $a1-282-85664-2 010 $a9786612856648 010 $a0-7735-6432-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773564329 035 $a(CKB)1000000000520888 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000278883 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11209256 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000278883 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10260407 035 $a(PQKB)11081838 035 $a(CaPaEBR)400966 035 $a(CaBNvSL)jme00326196 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3330774 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10141444 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL285664 035 $a(OCoLC)929121010 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/f87tvb 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/1/400966 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3330774 035 $a(DE-B1597)656341 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773564329 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3244557 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000520888 100 $a19930611d1993 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe early origins of the social sciences$b[electronic resource] /$fLynn McDonald 210 $aMontre?al $cMcGill-Queen's University Press$d1993 215 $aix, 397 p. ;$d24 cm 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7735-1408-2 311 $a0-7735-1124-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [349]-383) and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tMethodological Debate in the Social Sciences -- $tThe Ancient Origins of the Social Sciences -- $tEmpiricism and Scepticism Recovered -- $tThe French Enlightenment -- $tFrom Moral Philosophy to the Quantum of Happiness -- $tSociology ? Mainstream, Marxist, and Weberian -- $tRevisiting the Critiques of Methodology -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aAgainst these contentions she shows, for example, that women social thinkers have been active in every age since the sixteenth century. McDonald presents these women's work as evidence of the way in which the empirical social sciences have been employed by social reformers, including advocates for the equality of women, to challenge the state and those in authority. She argues as well that Weber's "interpretative sociology" has been misinterpreted, citing his extensive, but usually ignored, quantitative work. Despite the supposed opposition of interpretative and mainstream sociology, McDonald maintains that many of the founders of the discipline explored both. Covering the important eras in the development of the social sciences, she deals with the early Greeks, the seventeenth-century emergence of the scientific method (especially Bacon, Descartes, and Locke), the French Enlightenment, (especially Voltaire, Diderot, Condorcet, and Germaine de Staël), and British moral philosophy (especially Hume, Smith, and Catharine Macauley). From the nineteenth century she includes figures such as Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Quetelet, Harriet Martineau, Florence Nightingale, J.S. Mill, Harriet Taylor Mill, and Beatrice Webb. 606 $aSocial sciences$xHistory 606 $aCivilization$xHistory 615 0$aSocial sciences$xHistory. 615 0$aCivilization$xHistory. 676 $a300/.9 700 $aMcDonald$b Lynn$f1940-$01468906 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781905803321 996 $aThe early origins of the social sciences$93820312 997 $aUNINA