The Americanization of social science [electronic resource] : intellectuals and public responsibility in the postwar United States / David Paul Haney.
Haney, David Paul, 1963-
2008
HM477.U6 H36 2008eb
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Title The Americanization of social science [electronic resource] : intellectuals and public responsibility in the postwar United States / David Paul Haney.
Author Haney, David Paul, 1963-
ISBN 9781592137138 (cloth : alk. paper)
159213713X (cloth : alk. paper)
Imprint Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008.
Language English
Description xii, 283 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number HM477.U6 H36 2008eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 301.0973/09045
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-275) and index.
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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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