The Americanization of social science : intellectuals and public responsibility in the postwar United States / David Paul Haney.

Author/creator Haney, David Paul, 1963-
Format Book
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : Temple University Press, 2008.
Descriptionxii, 283 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Supplemental ContentContributor biographical information
Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [253]-275) and index.
LCCN 2007024415
ISBN9781592137138 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN159213713X (cloth : alk. paper)