Cold war social science : transnational entanglements / / Mark Solovey, Christian Dayé, editors

• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021]; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (413 pages)
• Disciplina: 909.825
• Soggetto topico: Cold War
• Persona (resp. second.): DayéChristian; SoloveyMark
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Foreword: The Cold War and the Transformation of Social Science -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Cold War Social Science, Transnational Entanglements -- Scope, Goals, Organization -- Exchanges across the Iron Curtain -- Modernization Theory Meets Postcolonial Nation Building -- Creating Good Citizens -- Social Science under Debate -- Taking Stock -- Liberation/Repression -- Value-Free and Detached/Value-Laden and Engaged -- Center-Periphery/Polycentric -- Target Audiences and Timeliness -- References -- Part I: Exchanges Across the Iron Curtain -- Chapter 2: "Overtake and Surpass": Soviet Algorithmic Thinking as a Reinvention of Western Theories during the Cold War -- Programmed Instruction: From American Behaviorism to Soviet Cybernetics -- Following the West: The Mathematization of Soviet Psychology -- The Rise and Departure of the Soviet Leader in Programmed Instruction -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Scientometrics with and without Computers: The Cold War Transnational Journeys of the Science Citation Index -- Making the Science Citation Index in Cold War America -- East-West Exchanges: A Socialist Market for a Capitalist Product -- The Vicissitudes of the Science Citation Index in the USSR -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Cold War Social Sciences beyond Academia? Radio Free Europe and the Transnational Circulation of Cold War Knowledge during the "CIA Years," 1950-1971 -- RFE as a "Surrogate" Radio in the Early Cold war -- More than Just Sound: Radio Free Europe as a Non-Academic Producer of Cold War Knowledge -- The Transsystemic and Transatlantic Circulation of RFE's Cold War Knowledge -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Modernization Theory Meets Postcolonial Nation Building. ; Chapter 5: Becoming an Area Expert During the Cold War: Americanism and Lusotropicalismo in the Transnational Career of Anthropologist Charles Wagley, 1939-1971 -- Americanist Anthropology and Tupinology -- Becoming an Area Specialist -- Conquering the Tropics -- Testing the Limits of Area Expertise -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: The Anthropologist as Deviant Modernizer: Felipe Landa Jocano's Journey Through the Cold War, the Social Sciences, Decolonization, and Nation Building in the Philippines -- Early Research: Mythology and Nationalism in the Philippines and at Chicago -- Forging a New Society in a Pre-Colonial Past and Modernizing Present under Dictatorial Rule -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: Latin America's Dependency Theory: A Counter-Cold War Social Science? -- "Latin American" Social Sciences and the Turn to the "Social Aspects of Development" -- Emergence of Dependency Ideas -- Circulation of Dependency Ideas -- Conclusions -- References -- Part III: Creating Good Citizens -- Chapter 8: The Last Battlefield of the Cold War: From Reform-Oriented Leisure Studies to Sociological Research on the "Socialist Lifestyle" in Czechoslovakia, 1950s-1989 -- Modern Leisure Studies and the Challenge of Establishing a Socialist Way of Life -- Socialist Lifestyle Research during the Era of Consolidation -- Critique and Decline of Socialist Lifestyle Sociology -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9: From Student-Centered Pedagogy to Student Labor: Chinese Education's Transnational Entanglements during the Cold War -- The Decline of Student-Centered Pedagogy -- Transnational Interventionist Ideology -- The Wartime Heritage of Extracting Student Labor -- Educational Revolution of 1958 -- Conclusion -- References -- Part IV: Social Science Under Debate. ; Chapter 10: Decentering Cold War Social Science: Alva Myrdal's Social Scientific Internationalism at UNESCO, 1950-1955 -- UNESCO and Early Post-World War II Internationalisms -- Myrdal's Way to UNESCO -- Myrdal's Social Scientific Internationalism -- Toward A Decentered International Social Science -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11: Transnational Constructions of Social Scientific Personae during the Cold War: The Case of Comparative Politics -- Training in Comparison -- Uncertainties about Collaboration, Comparison, and Objectivity -- The Transnational Formations of Behavioralist Research and Doubts -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12: Planned Economies, Free Markets and the Social Sciences: The Cold War Origins of the "Knowledge Society" -- Varieties of Knowledge: Epistemic Authority as a Contested Political Resource -- The End of Ideology: Daniel Bell's "Post-Industrial" Knowledge Society -- Democratizing Knowledge: The New Left's Revolt -- The Limits of Social Science Knowledge: Popper's "Open Society" and Hayek's "Neo-liberal" Project -- Conclusion -- References -- Correction to: Becoming an Area Expert During the Cold War: Americanism and Lusotropicalismo in the Transnational Career of Anthropologist Charles Wagley, 1939-1971 -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Cold war social science
• ISBN: 3-030-70246-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910484022003321
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