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Her books include the G. Stanley Hall: The Psychologist as Prophet (1972) and The Origins of American Social Science (1991). The Society for U.S. Intellectual History named the Dorothy Ross Prize after Ross to honor her work in the history of psychology and modern social science.
Mar 27, 1992 · Professor Ross argues that American social science receives its distinctive stamp from the ideology of American exceptionalism, the idea that America occupies an exceptional place in history, based on her republican government and wide economic opportunity.
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Jul 19, 2011 · In short, Ross argues that most U.S. intellectual historians have framed the nation’s history through the lens of modernity–at least, since the historiographical renunciation of American exceptionalism in the 1960s.
The Origins of American Social Science is a 1991 book by Dorothy Ross on the early history of social science in the United States. Bibliography
The Origins of American Social Science. Dorothy Ross. Cambridge University Press, 1991 - History - 508 pages. Focusing on the disciplines of economics, sociology, political science, and...
Ross shows how each of the social science disciplines, while developing their inherited intellectual traditions, responded to changes in historical consciousness, political needs, professional structures, and the conceptions of science available to them.
Her books include the G. Stanley Hall: The Psychologist as Prophet (1972) and The Origins of American Social Science (1991). The Society for U.S. Intellectual History named the Dorothy Ross Prize after Ross to honor her work in the history of psychology and modern social science.
