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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008.Description: xii, 283 p. ; 24 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 301.0973/09045 22
LOC classification:
  • HM477.U6 H36 2008
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Contents:
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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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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