Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of the different approaches that scholars have taken in studying the history of British social science. It challenges Abrams (1968) account, which claims that the history of British nineteenth-century social science, and statistics in particular, is important mainly because it frustrated the later development of British academic sociology. Abrams’ interpretation displays major weaknesses, not least a bias in favour of theoretical sociology together with a limited understanding of statistics, seeing it merely as a tool for bureaucratic government.
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