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This volume provides a history of the concepts, practices, institutions, and ideologies of social sciences (including behavioural and economic sciences) since the eighteenth century. It offers original, synthetic accounts of the historical development of social knowledge, including its philosophical assumptions, its social and intellectual organization, and its relations to science, medicine, politics, bureaucracy, philosophy, religion, and the professions. Its forty-two chapters include inquiries into the genres and traditions that formed social science, the careers of the main social disciplines (psychology, economics, sociology, anthropology, political science, geography, history, and statistics), and international essays on social science in Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It also includes essays that examine the involvement of the social sciences in government, business, education, culture, and social policy. This is a broad cultural history of social science, which analyzes from a variety of perspectives its participation in the making of the modern world

Este texto pretende resaltar el protagonismo, en las últimas décadas, de la criminalística como ciencia auxiliar de la administración de justicia, su evolución, concepto, objeto de estudio, método, relación con otras ciencias y finalmente, hace un vistazo a la actividad criminalística en Panamá.

A descriptive analysis of how ideologically determined premises have distorted sociological research on the family & human sexuality. Efforts in Sweden & GB to use social science to guide the creation of family policies are reviewed, with focus on the work of Swedish social scientists Alva & Gunnar Myrdal in the 1930s & of GB's Royal Commission on Population during the 1940s. Certain common methodological premises are identified: freeing sociological inquiry from institutional & cultural restraints; an assumption of the "natural marriage" of the correct technical & the political radical solution; the denial of any need to discover the specific causes of the social problems under investigation; a materialistic, nonhistoric understanding of social change; & the necessary use of state power to alter existing social arrangements to produce the desired structural results. Logical difficulties plaguing these assumptions are explored. The components of the US family policy that existed & worked reasonably well in 1947-1962 are considered, including family-sensitive tax benefits, housing programs that encouraged home ownership, & the presumptions concerning family structure around which the Social Security system was shaped. The dissolution of the consensus underlying these policies is traced to the 1965 Moynihan Report on "The Negro Family," viewed as a principle catalyst for change. Subsequent radical transformations in sociological theory concerning the family are shown to have been ideologically determined. Recent proposals for creation of a US family policy, showing how they share the same logical inconsistencies & ideologically determined content of the earlier Swedish & British policy experiments are analyzed, & suggestions made for creation of a family political agenda restoring "the policy balance existing in the 1950s which embodied a positive social valuation of families & childern." Modified AA.