02858nam 2200589 a 450 991081716510332120200520144314.01-282-04741-81-59213-715-6(CKB)1000000000579000(EBL)432883(OCoLC)317153984(SSID)ssj0000102527(PQKBManifestationID)11133085(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102527(PQKBWorkID)10060104(PQKB)11405508(MiAaPQ)EBC432883(Au-PeEL)EBL432883(CaPaEBR)ebr10279958(CaONFJC)MIL204741(EXLCZ)99100000000057900020070618d2008 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe Americanization of social science intellectuals and public responsibility in the postwar United States /David Paul Haney1st ed.Philadelphia Temple University Press20081 online resource (297 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-59213-713-X 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.In this, a unique history of the America's postwar intellectual, David Paul Haney outlines the development 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 society, Haney shows how both attempts failed to connect sociology with larger questions of policy and social progress.SociologyStudy and teachingUnited StatesSociologyUnited StatesHistory20th centurySociologistsUnited StatesSociologyStudy and teachingSociologyHistorySociologists301.0973/09045Haney David Paul1963-1667057MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817165103321The Americanization of social science4026670UNINA