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The Americanization of social science [[electronic resource] ] : intellectuals and public responsibility in the postwar United States / / David Paul Haney



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Autore: Haney David Paul <1963-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The Americanization of social science [[electronic resource] ] : intellectuals and public responsibility in the postwar United States / / David Paul Haney Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2008
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
Disciplina: 301.0973/09045
Soggetto topico: Sociology - Study and teaching - United States
Sociology - United States - History - 20th century
Sociologists - United States
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-275) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: The Americanization of social science  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-04741-8
1-59213-715-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910782533603321
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