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Age of System: Understanding the Development of Modern Social Science
Hunter Heyck
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Description for Age of System: Understanding the Development of Modern Social Science
Hardback. A highly accomplished historian, Heyck relays this complicated story with unusual clarity. Num Pages: 272 pages, 15, 1 black & white line drawings, 3 recorded music items, 11 graphs. BIC Classification: HPS; J; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 235 x 21. Weight in Grams: 488.
Before the Second World War, social scientists struggled to define and defend their disciplines. After the war, high modern social scientists harnessed new resources in a quest to create a unified understanding of human behavior-and to remake the world in the image of their new model man. In Age of System, Hunter Heyck explains why social scientists-shaped by encounters with the ongoing organizational revolution and its revolutionary technologies of communication and control-embraced a new and extremely influential perspective on science and nature, one that conceived of all things in terms of system, structure, ... Read more
Before the Second World War, social scientists struggled to define and defend their disciplines. After the war, high modern social scientists harnessed new resources in a quest to create a unified understanding of human behavior-and to remake the world in the image of their new model man. In Age of System, Hunter Heyck explains why social scientists-shaped by encounters with the ongoing organizational revolution and its revolutionary technologies of communication and control-embraced a new and extremely influential perspective on science and nature, one that conceived of all things in terms of system, structure, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
481g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421417103
SKU
V9781421417103
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About Hunter Heyck
Hunter Heyck is an associate professor and chair of the Department of the History of Science at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Herbert A. Simon: The Bounds of Reason in Modern America.
Reviews for Age of System: Understanding the Development of Modern Social Science
In Age of System, Heyck has given science studies and the history of science a useful and needed book. It will be an important resource for those of us who study the history of the human sciences, and for anyone whose work is touched by the rise and fall of the New Deal/Cold War consensus
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