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BL
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960684
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b715054
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| Main Entry
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Haney, David Paul,1963-
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| Title & Author
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The Americanization of social science : : intellectuals and public responsibility in the postwar United States /\ David Paul Haney.
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| Publication Statement
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Philadelphia :: Temple University Press,, 2008.
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xii, 283 pages ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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159213713X
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: 1592137148
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: 9781592137138
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: 9781592137145
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-275) and index.
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| Contents
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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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| Abstract
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The author outlines the development of sociology and examines why it failed to develop into a force in the intellectual currents of the United States. Arguing that sociologists attempted to develop both a science and an instrument for the spread of humanistic concern about society, the author shows how both attempts failed to connect sociology with larger questions of policy and social progress. It also discusses the major players in sociology, and how their fame obscured the debate over sociology's future in American universities. By looking at Talcott Parsons, C. Wright Mills, David Riesman, and others, the author illustrates how their struggle to define a discipline reflected the discipline's own development in this country, and how competing claims for sociology's role in the public debate about the future of American society helped define the future of the university and of the role of the public intellectual in the United States.
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Sociologists-- United States.
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Sociology-- Study and teaching-- United States.
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Sociology-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
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Sociologer-- Förenta staterna.
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Sociologi-- historia-- Förenta staterna-- 1900-talet.
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Sociologi-- studier och undervisning-- Förenta staterna.
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Sociologists.
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Sociology-- Study and teaching.
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Sociology.
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Sociologie.
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Wetenschapsbeoefening.
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United States.
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Verenigde Staten.
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| Dewey Classification
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301.0973/09045
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| LC Classification
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HM477.U6H36 2008
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| NLM classification
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71.01bcl
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