The Americanization of social science : intellectuals and public responsibility in the postwar United States / / David Paul Haney.

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Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:xii, 283 p. ;; 24 cm.
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245 1 4 |a The Americanization of social science  |h [electronic resource] :  |b intellectuals and public responsibility in the postwar United States /  |c David Paul Haney. 
260 |a Philadelphia :  |b Temple University Press,  |c 2008. 
300 |a xii, 283 p. ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-275) and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
533 |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
650 0 |a Sociology  |x Study and teaching  |z United States. 
650 0 |a Sociology  |z United States  |x History  |y 20th century. 
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