A History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences Erica McWilliam Falkner's feeling for history and

Falkner's feeling for history and for the landscape of his Dorset setting combine with his gift for storytelling to turn Moonfleet into a historical romance of moving intensity

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turn this notion on its head

A History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences Erica McWilliam Falkner's feeling for history andThis ambitious critical history of the variety of disciplines we group together as the social sciences argues that the defining characteristic of social science, both historically and in the present, is ideology. Based originally on a flawed ideal of science, the 'social sciences' have incorporated and refined a set of assumptions about the nature of state and society, assumptions which have been institutionalized with the growth of modern