The Americanization of social science intellectuals and public responsibility in the postwar United States /
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Lenguaje: | inglés |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
2008.
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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.