The Americanization of Social Science Intellectuals and Public Responsibility in the Postwar United States 1st edition by David Haney ISBN 1592137148 978-1592137145
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Authors:David Haney , Series:Social Sciences [23] , Tags:History; United States; 20th Century; Social Science; General; Sociology; Temple University Press; ISBN-13: 9781592137138 , Author sort:Haney, David , Ids:9781592137152 , Languages:Languages:eng , Published:Published:Jan 2008 , Publisher:Temple University Press , Comments:Comments: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.
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ISBN 10: 1592137148
ISBN 13: 978-1592137145
Author: David Haney
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.
The Americanization of Social Science: Intellectuals and Public Responsibility in the Postwar United States 1st Table of contents:
Introduction: The Americanization of Social Science
Chapter 1: Social Science and the Public Intellectual
Chapter 2: The War, the Cold War, and the Rise of Social Science
Chapter 3: The Americanization of the Social Sciences
Chapter 4: The Cold War, Universities, and the Growth of Social Science
Chapter 5: Intellectuals, Social Science, and American Democracy
Chapter 6: The “Public Responsibility” of Social Science
Chapter 7: The Politics of Knowledge
Chapter 8: The End of the American Century?
Conclusion: The Challenges of Public Responsibility in the Age of Social Science
Notes
Index
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