The Americanization Of Social Science

Author : David Haney
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592137145
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Americanization of Social Science written by David Haney and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly readable introduction to and overview of the postwar social sciences in the United States, The Americanization of Social Science explores a critical period in the evolution of American sociology’s professional identity from the late 1940s through the early 1960s. David Paul Haney contends that during this time leading sociologists encouraged a professional secession from public engagement in the name of establishing the discipline’s scientific integrity. According to Haney, influential practitioners encouraged a willful withdrawal from public sociology by separating their professional work from public life. He argues that this separation diminished sociologists’ capacity for conveying their findings to wider publics, especially given their ambivalence towards the mass media, as witnessed by the professional estrangement that scholars like David Riesman and C. Wright Mills experienced as their writing found receptive lay audiences. He argues further that this sense of professional insularity has inhibited sociology’s participation in the national discussion about social issues to the present day.

Author : Dorothy Ross
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521428361
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of American Social Science written by Dorothy Ross and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how American social science modelled itself on natural science and liberal politics.

Author : David Haney
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1592137156
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Americanization of Social Science written by David Haney and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-28 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly readable introduction to and overview of the postwar social sciences in the United States, The Americanization of Social Science explores a critical period in the evolution of American sociology’s professional identity from the late 1940s through the early 1960s. David Paul Haney contends that during this time leading sociologists encouraged a professional secession from public engagement in the name of establishing the discipline’s scientific integrity. According to Haney, influential practitioners encouraged a willful withdrawal from public sociology by separating their professional work from public life. He argues that this separation diminished sociologists’ capacity for conveying their findings to wider publics, especially given their ambivalence towards the mass media, as witnessed by the professional estrangement that scholars like David Riesman and C. Wright Mills experienced as their writing found receptive lay audiences. He argues further that this sense of professional insularity has inhibited sociology’s participation in the national discussion about social issues to the present day.

Author : Robert Staughton Lynd
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400872286
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knowledge for What written by Robert Staughton Lynd and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: Foreword ix; I. Social Science in Crisis 1; II. The Concept of "Culture" 11; III. The Pattern of American Culture 54; IV. The Social Sciences as Tools 114; V. Values and the Social Sciences 180; VI. Some Outrageous Hypotheses 202; Index 251 Originally published in 1939. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Charles M. Bonjean
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292772629
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Science in America written by Charles M. Bonjean and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This outstanding symposium concerns the development of the social sciences in the United States over its first two hundred years and was brought together by the editors of Social Science Quarterly as the journal's contribution to the nation's Bicentennial celebration. Six prominent scholars representing history, economics, sociology, political science, anthropology, and geography were invited to write essays about the general topic of the progress of the social sciences, and to pursue original lines of thought as well. Each was asked to address three key questions regarding their own discipline: (1) the distinctive contributions made to each discipline by American scholars; (2) the impact of these contributions upon American society; and (3) the relationship of these contributions to the character or nature of life in the United States. The result is a coherent collection of considerable breadth and exceptional quality. The essays include "Time's American Adventures: American History and Historical Writing since 1776" by William Goetzmann; "Economics: Its Direct and Indirect Impact in America, 1776-1976" by Joseph J. Spengler; "Sociology in America: The Experience of Two Centuries" by Robin M. Williams; "Understanding Political Life in America: The Contribution of Political Science" by Heinz Eulau; "Anthropology in America" by Walter Goldschmidt; and "Geography As a Social Science: Recent American Experience" by Kevin Cox.

Author : Robert M.A. Crawford
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791447031
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Relations--Still an American Social Science? written by Robert M.A. Crawford and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges the parochialism and "Americanization" of the field of International Relations.

Author : American Academy of Political and Social Science
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 812 pages
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Download or read book Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science written by American Academy of Political and Social Science and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roger E. Backhouse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107717779
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of the Social Sciences since 1945 written by Roger E. Backhouse and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-24 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compact volume covers the main developments in the social sciences since the Second World War. Chapters on economics, human geography, political science, psychology, social anthropology, and sociology will interest anyone wanting short, accessible histories of those disciplines, all written by experts in the relevant field; they will also make it easy for readers to make comparisons between disciplines. A final chapter proposes a blueprint for a history of the social sciences as a whole. Whereas most of the existing literature considers the social sciences in isolation from one other, this volume shows that they have much in common; for example, they have responded to common problems using overlapping methods, and cross-disciplinary activities have been widespread.

Author : Robert M.A. Crawford
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791447048
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Relations--Still an American Social Science? written by Robert M.A. Crawford and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2000-11-30 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges the parochialism and "Americanization" of the field of International Relations.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
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Download or read book Columbia Studies in the Social Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: