The Original Meanings of the Social Sciences as a Foundation for Illustrating a Renewed Reflection on their Current Situation and Future Challenges
Keywords:
educational inclusion, premature baby, child development, learning difficultyAbstract
The mere act of attempting to say something about the social sciences—their origin, history, development, and destiny—is, in itself, an ambitious and excessive endeavor. Who could even produce a state of the art of any of the disciplines or subdisciplines that today fall under that broad label? To say something meaningful in this regard, we would have to rely on the enormous collective efforts that some groups of scholars and certain institutions have undertaken in recent years (Wallerstein, I., 2006; Heilbron, J.; L. Magnusson & B. Wittrock, 1998; Porter, T. and D. Ross, 2003; UNESCO, 2010; UNESCO, 2013).
References
Keith Michael Baker (1964) The early history of the term ‘social science’. 20(3), 211-226. https://doi.org/10.1080/00033796400203074
Keith Michael Baker (1975) Condorcet. From Natural Philosophy to Social Mathematic.
Eric Brian (1998) Mathematics, Administrative Reform and Social Sciences in France at the end of the Eighteenth Century. 207-224.
Gladys Bryson (1932) The Emergence of the Social Sciences from Moral Philosophy. 42(3), 304-323. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2989580
James H. Burns (1959) J. S. Mill and the Term 'Social Science'. 20(3), 431-432. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2708120
Terry N. Clark (1973) Prophets and Patrons: The French University and the Emergence of the Social Sciences.
Augusto Comte (1984) Curso de filosofía positiva.
Pierre Crépel, Jean-Nicolas Rieucau (2005) Condorcet's Social Mathematics, A Few Tables. 25(2/3).
Michael Donnelly (1998) From Political Arithmetic to Social Statistics: How Some Nineteenth Century Roots of the Social Sciences were implanted. 225-239.
Michel Foucault (1968) Las palabras y las cosas. Una arqueología de las ciencias humanas.
Hans G. Gadamer (1977) Verdad y método. Tomo I.
Scott Gordon (1991) The history and philosophy of social science.
Geoffrey Hawthorn (2002) Iluminismo y desesperación.
Brian Head (1982) The Origins of 'La Science Sociale' in France, 1770-1800. 19(2), 115-132. https://doi.org/10.3828/AJFS.19.2.115
Johan Heilbron, Lars Magnusson, Bjorn Wittrock (1998) The Rise of the Social Science and the formation of Modernity Conceptual Change in Context, 1750 - 1850.
Georg G. Iggers (1959) Further Remarks about Early Uses of the Term 'Social Science'. 20(3), 433-436. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2708121
Thomas Lalevée (2023) Three Versions of Social Science in Late Eighteenth-Century France. 1-21.
Lynn McDonald (1993) The Early Origins of the Social Sciences.
Victor Riquetti Mirabeu (1767) Éphémérides du citoyen ou Bibliotheque Raisonneé des Sciences morales et politiques. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb327681291/date1767.liste?page=3&startRecord=30&maximumRecords=15
Robert Nisbet (1981) Historia de la idea de progreso.
José Ortega y Gasset (1965) Meditación de la técnica.
Theodore Porter (2008) Genres and Objects of Social Inquiry, from the Enlightenment to 1890.
Peter R. Senn (1958) The Earliest Use of the Term 'Social Science'. 19(4), 568-570. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2707925
Sieyes (2019) ¿Qué es el tercer estado?.
UNESCO (2010) Informe mundial sobre las ciencias sociales. 2010. Divisorias del conocimiento.
UNESCO (2013) Informe mundial sobre las ciencias sociales. 2013. Cambios ambientales globales.
Immanuel Wallerstein (2006) Abrir las ciencias sociales. Informe de la Comisión Gulbenkian para la reestructuración de las ciencias sociales.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2025 Authors and Global Journals Private Limited
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
