David Haney

The Americanization of Social Science

Intellectuals and Public Responsibility in the Postwar United States

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Produktbeschreibung

In this, a unique history of the America's postwar intellectual, David Paul Haney outlines the developoment of sociology as a discipline and why, given its focus of study, it failed to develop into a force in the intellectual currents of the United States. Arguing that sociologists attempted to develop both a science and an instrument for the spread of humanistic concern about socity, Haney shows how both attempts failed to connect sociology with larger questions of policy and social progress.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Temple University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781592137138
• ISBN-10: 159213713X
• Artikelnr.: 22825401

Autorenporträt

David Paul Haney is an Adjunct Professor at Austin Community College and St. Edward's University.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Chapter 1    Introduction                                          1
Chapter 2    The Postwar  Campaign for Scientific Legitimacy            
 29
Chapter 3    Quantitative Methods and the Institutionalization of
Exclusivity         60
Chapter 4    Social Theory and the Romance of American
Alienation                   90                        
                        
Chapter 5    Theories of Mass Society and the Advent of a New Elitism   
    115
Chapter 6    Fads, Foibles, and Autopsies: Unwelcome Publicity for
Diffident    160
               Sociologists                                          
                                           
Chapter 7    Pseudoscience and Social Engineering: American
Sociology's         225
   Public Image in the Fifties
Chapter 8    The Perils of Popularity: Public Sociology and Its
Antagonists    264
Conclusion    The Legacy of the Scientific Consensus                301
Bibliography