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Book SynopsisManicas argues that ideology is the defining characteristic of the social sciences in this critical review of the discipline. He contends that social science was originally based on a false ideal of science and that the historical assumptions of it are in general, too Eurocentric.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements vi
Author's Note viii
Part I The Critical Ideas
Introduction 3
1 Science and Philosophy 7
2 Of the Commonwealth 24
3 The Emergence of Political Economy 37
4 Progress: The Laws of Development 53
5 The German Conception of History: Herder or Hegel? 73
6 Scientific Socialism: Marxian Dialectics 97
7 From Ranke to Max Weber 117
8 Economy and Society: The Sociology of Pareto and Durkheim 141
9 The Genesis of Psychology 168
Part II The Modern Social Sciences
10 Capitalism, Science, and the University 193
11 The Americanization of Social Science 213
Part III Realist Philosophy of Social Science
12 The Critique of Empiricism 241
13 A Realist Social Science 266
14 Psychology: Theoretical and Applied 294
Bibliography 319
Index 336
