Sociology and Scientism: The American Quest for Objectivity, 1880-1940 1469616238, 9781469616230

During the 1920s a new generation of American sociologists tried to make their discipline more objective by adopting the

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Sociology and Scientism: The American Quest for Objectivity, 1880-1940
1469616238, 9781469616230

A critique of the Law & Economics movement, this book draws connections between conceptions of science and efforts a

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Issues important to the philosophy of social science are widely discussed in the American academy today. Some social sci

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The 1920s and 30s were key decades for the history of American social science. The success of such quantitative discipli

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In his previous book, Contemporary Hermeneutics, Josef Bleicher offered an introduction to the subject, locating it main

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Martha Banta reaches across several disciplines to investigate America's early quest to shape an aesthetic equal to

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Martha Banta reaches across several disciplines to investigate America's early quest to shape an aesthetic equal to

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The Unraveling of Scientism, a companion to Joseph Margolis's Reinventing Pragmatism, follows the thread of America

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In the second half of the nineteenth century, American cities began to go dark. Hulking new buildings overspread blocks,

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