The Nationalization of the Social Sciences / / ed. by Victor M. Lidz, Samuel Z. Klausner.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Ann...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Edition:Reprint 2016
Language:English
Series:Anniversary Collection
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Physical Description:1 online resource (305 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Preface --
Introduction --
Part One. New York: The Campaign for the Social Sciences --
1. The Bid to Nationalize American Social Science --
2. Social Science: A Basic National Resource --
3. The Status of the Social Sciences, 1950: A Tale of Two Reports --
Part Two. Cambridge: Parsons and Empirical Research --
4. Theory and Fact in the Work of Talcott Parsons --
5. The Integrating of the Social Sciences: Theoretical and Empirical Research and Training in the Department of Social Relations at Harvard --
6. Parsons and Empirical Sociology --
Part Three. Washington: Federal Sponsorship of Social Science --
7. Making a Case for the Social Sciences --
8. The Many Faces of Social Science --
9. Underdogging: The Early Career of the Social Sciences in the NSF --
10. Federal Funding for Social Science --
11. The Intellectual Consequences of Federal Support for the Social Sciences --
12. Social Science as a National Resource: 1948 and 1982 --
Part Four. An Editorial --
13. Nationalization and the Social Sciences --
Index --
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Summary:This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781512803013
9783110442526
DOI:10.9783/9781512803013
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Victor M. Lidz, Samuel Z. Klausner.