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Assessing research in the history of sociology and anthropology
Author(s) -
Kuklick Henrika
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of the history of the behavioral sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.216
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1520-6696
pISSN - 0022-5061
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1520-6696(199922)35:3<227::aid-jhbs2>3.0.co;2-s
Subject(s) - presentism , historicism , anthropology , sociology , historical sociology , human science , social science , epistemology , philosophy
This paper reviews recent interpretive trends among historians of anthropology and sociology, examining both introductory texts and scholarly studies. It focuses on works published over the last ten years, and stresses that there has been no resolution of the long‐standing conflict between “presentist” and “historicist” approaches to the history of the human sciences. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.