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The new types of states that emerged in the late nineteenth century with enlarged administrative capacities differed from earlier formations in: models of resource generation & appropriation, forms of the state institutional apparatus, & modes of societal discourse. The modern state formations drew on the discourse of the social sciences to answer questions of national & cultural identity since the social sciences had the state society implied as its focus. The crumbling of old authorities & the search for new knowledge during this time led to the discourse of modernity & the development of social science. The close relation between the social sciences & the modern state in terms of discourse is based on the interaction of the politico-institutional framework & the discursive framework of social science around intervention in specific institutions, but the analysis of its evolution is not limited only to the intellectual traditions & characteristics of those institutions where discourse has taken place. Social development in itself does not imply social science inquiry, as evidenced by states with similar social patterns utilizing social science to different degrees. The poblematic development of modern social science is traced through two major periods, from the emergence of modern social science as a form of discourse in the late nineteenth & early twentieth centuries in Europe to the widespread institutionalization of social science in the 1960s. With the politico-institutional linkage between discourse & policy making thus established, social science, in trying to remain relevant to policymakers & scholars both, has lost legitimacy, & needs to refocus on society. 53 References. M. Pflum