The Americanization of social science [electronic resource] : intellectuals and public responsibility in the postwar United States / David Paul Haney.
Publication details: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008.Description: xii, 283 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 159213713X (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9781592137138 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 301.0973/09045 22
- HM477.U6 H36 2008eb
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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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