The Americanization of Social Science : Intellectuals and Public Responsibility in the Postwar United States.
Title:
The Americanization of Social Science : Intellectuals and Public Responsibility in the Postwar United States.
Author:
Haney, David.
ISBN:
9781592137152
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (297 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Postwar Campaign for Scientific Legitimacy -- Quantitative Methods and the Institutionalization of Exclusivity -- Social Theory and the Romance of American Alienation -- Theories of Mass Society and the Advent of a New Elitism -- Fads, Foibles, and Autopsies: Unwelcome Publicity for Diffident Sociologists -- Pseudoscience and Social Engineering: American Sociology's Public Image in the Fifties -- The Perils of Popularity: Public Sociology and Its Antagonists -- Conclusion: The Legacy of the Scientific Identity -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
In this, a unique history of the America's postwar intellectual, David Paul Haney outlines the developoment of sociology as a discipline and why, given its focus of study, it failed to develop into a force in the intellectual currents of the United States. Arguing that sociologists attempted to develop both a science and an instrument for the spread of humanistic concern about socity, Haney shows how both attempts failed to connect sociology with larger questions of policy and social progress.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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