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

• Autore: Haney David Paul <1963->
• 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
• ISBN: 1-282-04741-8; 1-59213-715-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782533603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II