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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Table of Contents:
- 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.