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Introduction & Top Questions
Heritage of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
- Effects of theology
- Effects of the classics and of Cartesianism
Heritage of the Enlightenment
The 19th century
- Major themes resulting from democratic and industrial change
- New ideologies
- New intellectual and philosophical tendencies
- History of the separate disciplines
  - Economics
  - Political science
  - Cultural anthropology
  - Sociology
  - Social psychology
  - Social statistics and social geography
Social science from the turn of the 20th century
- Science and social science
- Social science in the research universities
- Early attempts at a science of humanity: Durkheim and Weber
Outline of a future science of humanity
- Humanity as a symbolic phenomenon
- Identity, will, and the thinking self
- Institutions, nations, and civilizations
- Applications of the science of humanity: nationalism, economic growth, and mental illness

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