id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-14683 Fitchen, Richard The Origins of American Social Science (Book Review) 1991-11-01 2 .pdf application/pdf 1274 63 49 In part two, covering the thirty years after the Civil War, Ross focuses on the crisis in exceptionalist ideology and the formation of social science disciplines, particularly economics, political science, and sociology, which she regards as the core disciplines. In part one, she places the beginning of social science in the eighteenth century as part of a historical development she calls the discovery of modernity, and she traces the develop- ment of American ideas and their diver- gence from what was seen to be the European experience. cache/crl-14683.pdf txt/crl-14683.txt