Toward a holistic social science

One of the goals I developed during my anthropology program was a desire to reunite the fractured social sciences into one coherent whole. When social science was first practiced by casual individuals, I believe it drew from many traditions. Over time, the academic and practitioner communities worked to specialize each of its components. Anthropology was cut off the main trunk and relegated to dealing with non-Western, so called non-modern, exotic topics. Sociology, history, political economy, economics, and psychology dealt primarily with Western European and North American domains while anthropology focused on groups in Africa, Latin and Southern America, and Asia….