A note on the origin of the term “social
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Fred R. Shapiro
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Article
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1984
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The previous literature concerning the origin of the term social science has traced the earliest usage of the English phrase to J. S. Mill in 1829 and of the French science sociale to Charles Fourier in 1808. A prior, albeit vague, employment of the term is found in a 1785 letter by John Adams. In a