{"product_id":"the-americanization-of-social-science-intellectuals-and-public-responsibility-in-the-postwar-united-states-9781592137138","title":"The Americanization of Social Science:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this, a unique history of the America's postwar intellectual, David Paul Haney outlines the developoment of sociology as a discipline and why, given its focus of study, it failed to develop into a force in the intellectual currents of the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArguing that sociologists attempted to develop both a science and an instrument for the spread of humanistic concern about socity, Haney shows how both attempts failed to connect sociology with larger questions of policy and social progress.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is an important and timely work…. [W]hile it is excellent as an intellectual history of the sociological discipline from the late 1940s to the early 1960s, its importance in illuminating questions of the public role of intellectuals in a modern democratic society gives it a far wider significance…. This is a fluent, well-constructed, soundly researched and informative work that fills in an important but little-understood aspect of postwar American social, cultural and intellectual history.\" \u003cbr\u003e—Metapsychology Online\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1    Introduction                                          1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2    The Postwar  Campaign for Scientific Legitimacy              29\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3    Quantitative Methods and the Institutionalization of Exclusivity         60\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4    Social Theory and the Romance of American Alienation                   90                                                  \u003cbr\u003eChapter 5    Theories of Mass Society and the Advent of a New Elitism        115\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6    Fads, Foibles, and Autopsies: Unwelcome Publicity for Diffident    160\u003cbr\u003e               Sociologists                                           \u003cbr\u003e                                            \u003cbr\u003eChapter 7    Pseudoscience and Social Engineering: American Sociology's         225\u003cbr\u003e   Public Image in the Fifties\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8    The Perils of Popularity: Public Sociology and Its Antagonists    264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion    The Legacy of the Scientific Consensus                301\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliography   ","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041556169047,"sku":"9781592137138","price":41.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781592137138.jpg?v=1750950768","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-americanization-of-social-science-intellectuals-and-public-responsibility-in-the-postwar-united-states-9781592137138","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}