On the limits of ‘presentism’ and ‘historicism’ in the historiography of the behavioral sciences

✍ Scribed by George W. Stocking Jr.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1965
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 685 KB
• Volume: 1
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-5061
• DOI: 10.1002/1520-6696(196507)1:3<211::aid-jhbs2300010302>3.0.co;2-w

✦ Synopsis

PRESENTISM' AND 'HISTORICISM' I N THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

Although the April editorial on "Policy and its Implementation" outlined the basic objectives of this journal, its frankly limited scope and purpose did not allow extended consideration of certain broader questions of motive and method in the historiography of the behaviorial sciences. Perhaps this was as it should have been.