Social Science.
The history of social science and the American republic are roughly conterminous. Both had their origins in the Enlightenment with its faith in progress and belief in the existence of natural laws. Most historians have maintained that the concept of society itself did not emerge in European thought until the sixteenth century and could not truly develop until the decline of feudalism and the development of ... ...
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