History of Social Science first issue published free access

[Jeff Pooley]

We are pleased to announce that the inaugural issue of History of Social Science was just published, with free access:

https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/54109

The journal, published twice a year by Penn Press, is sponsored by the Society for the History of Recent Social Science (HISRESS).

The table of contents, with direct links, is copied below:

• A New Space for the History of Social Science (Jamie Cohen-Cole, Philippe Fontaine, Jefferson Pooley)
• The “Myth” of Intellectual Decline: Old-Age Psychometrics and Mandatory Retirement (Jamie Leach)
• Taming Tyrants: Tibor Scitovsky’s Understanding of the Mass Market (Viviana Di Giovinazzo)
• A Philosophy of Exhaustion: On Foucault’s Le Discours philosophique (Michael C. Behrent)
• Historicizing a Classic: Berger and Luckmann’s The Social Construction of Reality (1966) (Herman Paul)
• Review: The World that Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era by Margarita Fajardo (Sarah Foss)
• Review: The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire by George Steinmetz (Ian Merkel)
• Review: Camillo Pellizzi: Un intellettuale nell’Europa del Novecento by Mariuccia Salvati (Matteo Bortolini)
• Review: Democracy’s Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them by Dan Bouk (Emily Klancher Merchant)
• Review: The Science of Reading: Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America by Adrian Johns (Peter D. McDonald)
• Review: Code: From Information Theory to French Theory by Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan (Robin Manley Mihran)

Please share with interested colleagues and consider submitting a research article manuscript to the journal.

Jamie Cohen-Cole, Philippe Fontaine, Jeff Pooley
co-editors, History of Social Science