Jamie Cohen-Cole, Philippe Fontaine, and Jeff Pooley, co-editors of the journal History of Social Science, are pleased to announce that the inaugural issue of History of Social Science has been published with free access online. The editors invite you to browse the issue and its contents.
The journal, published twice a year by Penn Press, is sponsored by the Society for the History of Recent Social Science (HISRESS).
- A New Space for the History of Social Science (Jamie Cohen-Cole, Philippe Fontaine, Jefferson Pooley)
- The “Myth” of Intellectual Decline: Old-Age Psychometrics and Mandatory Retirement (Jamie Leach)
- Taming Tyrants: Tibor Scitovsky’s Understanding of the Mass Market (Viviana Di Giovinazzo)
- A Philosophy of Exhaustion: On Foucault’s Le Discours philosophique (Michael C. Behrent)
- Historicizing a Classic: Berger and Luckmann’s The Social Construction of Reality (1966) (Herman Paul)
- Review: The World that Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era by Margarita Fajardo (Sarah Foss)
- Review: The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire by George Steinmetz (Ian Merkel)
- Review: Camillo Pellizzi: Un intellettuale nell’Europa del Novecento by Mariuccia Salvati (Matteo Bortolini)
- Review: Democracy’s Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them by Dan Bouk (Emily Klancher Merchant)
- Review: The Science of Reading: Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America by Adrian Johns (Peter D. McDonald)
- Review: Code: From Information Theory to French Theory by Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan (Robin Manley Mihran)
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