The Early Origins of the Social Sciences

by Lynn McDonald

Book Overview

Against 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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773511245
• ISBN13: 9780773511248
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Carleton University Press
• Length: 408 Pages