History
The Academy’s origins lie in the formation of a representative body for the social science learned societies in the early 1980s. From 1999 to 2007 it was called the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences before changing to its current name. It was created because social scientists wanted their own dedicated Academy to speak for social science.
Read more about this topic: Academy Of Social Sciences
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won’t do. It’s an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth-century thought.”
—Peter B. Medawar (1915–1987)
“Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.”
—G.M. (George Macaulay)
“We aspire to be something more than stupid and timid chattels, pretending to read history and our Bibles, but desecrating every house and every day we breathe in.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)