The Americanization of social science intellectuals and public responsibility in the postwar United States /

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1. autor: Haney, David Paul, 1963-
Korporacja: ebrary, Inc
Format: Elektroniczne E-book
Język:angielski
Wydane: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008.
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Spis treści:
  • 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.