The Americanization of social science intellectuals and public responsibility in the postwar United States /
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Corporate Author: | |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
2008.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10279958 |
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.