Here, a group of scholars explore the past, present and future of the social sciences. The report begins by exploring how social science was historically constructed as a form of knowledge and why it was divided into a specific set of standard disciplines between the late 18th century and 1945.
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Foreword Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; Members of the commission; Part I. The Historical Construction of the Social Sciences, from the Eighteenth Century to 1945: Part II. Debates Within the Social Sciences, 1945 to the Present: 1. The validity of the distinctions among the social sciences ... ; 2. The degree to which the heritage is parochial ... ; 3. The reality and validity of the distinction between the 'two cultures' ... ; Part III. What Kind of Social Science Shall We Now Build?: 4. Humans and nature ... ; 5. The state as an analytic building block ... ; 5. The universal and the particular ... ; 6. Objectivity ... ; Part IV. Conclusion: Restructuring the Social Sciences.
