Social science: An introduction to the study of society - Softcover

Hunt, Elgin F.; Colander, David C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0023589205 ISBN 13: 9780023589201

Publisher: Macmillan Company, 1987

Synopsis

Multidisciplinary look at introductory social science This classic text provides a revised and updated survey of the social sciences, written in an unbiased manner with a multidisciplinary, common sense approach. The Fourteenth Edition highlights the dramatic political and economic changes that have swept the world in recent years, providing students and instructors with a starting point for lively classroom discussions and debate.

About this title

From the Back Cover

This classic text provides a revised and updated survey of the social sciences, written in an unbiased manner with a multidisciplinary, common sense approach. Comprehensive coverage incorporates elements of anthropology, economics, political science, sociology, history, and geography. The twelfth edition highlights the dramatic political and economic changes that have swept the world in recent years, including extensive examinations of the impact of the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks in the Political Science and Economics chapters.

About the Author

David Colander is the Christian A Johnson Distinguished Professor of Economics at Middlebury College. He has also been the Kelly Professor of Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University. He has authored, co-authored, or edited over 40 books and 150 articles on a wide range of topics, including a popular principles of economics text and a history of economic thought text.

Elgin Hunt is deceased. He was one of the early authors of this book when it began in the 1930s, and took over as sole author in the 1950s. He continued revising the book until the late 1960s when David Colander took over.

Edition details

• Publisher: Macmillan Company
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0023589205
• ISBN 13: 9780023589201
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 731