A History and Theory of the Social Sciences

PART ONE: RECONSIDERING THE HISTORY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES/As a Philosophical Science Unjustifiable as an Empirical Science Anything Else but New/Classical Sociology and the First Crisis of Modernity/Time of Politics and Not of Law/Political Analysis during the First Crisis of Modernity/Adjusting Social Relations/Social Science and the Organization of Modernity/The Mythical Promise of Societal Renewal/Social Science and Reform Coalitions/Out of Step/The Social Sciences in the Second Crisis of Modernity/PART TWO: RETHINKING KEY CONCEPTS OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES/Choice and Decision-Making/Action and Institution/Culture (with <b>Heidrun Friese</b>)/Society/Polity/Modernity