The Americanization of social science intellectuals and public responsibility in the postwar United States /

Main Author: Haney, David Paul, 1963-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10279958
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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. 
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