The Americanization of social science [electronic resource] : intellectuals and public responsibility in the postwar United States / David Paul Haney.
By: Haney, David Paul.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc
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Publisher: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008Description: xii, 283 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Sociology -- Study and teaching -- United States | Sociology -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Sociologists -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 301.0973/09045 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-275) and index.
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.
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