The History of Social Science has published its first issue. Sponsored by the Society for the History of Recent Social Science (HISRESS), the journal offers an international forum for the examination of the transformations of the social sciences since the early twentieth century. The journal covers a variety of disciplines, from the core social sciences of economics, political science, and sociology, to disciplines with links to natural science, such as anthropology, geography, and psychology, and disciplines closer to the humanities, such as history and philosophy. Related fields, including area studies, business, communication studies, criminology, law, and linguistics, are also included under the journal’s editorial scope. An important editorial commitment of the journal is to solicit and cultivate scholarship on the history of the social sciences throughout the world, as well as work that traces the transnational circulation and mutual shaping of ideas, practices, and personnel.
The biannual journal includes research articles, review essays, research notes, book reviews, and a “Classics Revisited” section that considers works of enduring importance.
Articles from the first issue include:
- The “Myth” of Intellectual Decline: Old-Age Psychometrics and Mandatory Retirement by Jamie Leach
- Taming Tyrants: Tibor Scitovsky’s Understanding of the Mass Market by Viviana Di Giovinazzo
- Review Essay: A Philosophy of Exhaustion: On Foucault’s Le Discours philosophique by Michael C. Behrent
- Classics Revisited: Historicizing a Classic: Berger and Luckmann’s The Social Construction of Reality (1966) by Herman Paul
The journal is edited by Jamie Cohen-Cole, Philippe Fontaine, and Jefferson Pooley. The first issue will be available to read for free through the end of the year. To subscribe or submit, visit hss.pennpress.org. If the journal would be a valuable addition to your institution’s collection, please ask your library to subscribe.
