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The Americanization of Social Science. Intellectuals and Public Responsibility in the Postwar United States.
David Haney
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Description for The Americanization of Social Science. Intellectuals and Public Responsibility in the Postwar United States.
Hardcover. An explanation for sociology's isolation from American society, this book introduces readers to such luminaries as Talcott Parsons, C Wright Mills, David Riesman, and others. It illustrates how their struggle to define a discipline reflected the discipline's own development in this country, and their claims for sociology's role about the US. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 531.
In 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.
Arguing 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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781592137138
SKU
V9781592137138
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99-15
About David Haney
David Paul Haney is an Adjunct Professor at Austin Community College and St. Edward's University.
Reviews for The Americanization of Social Science. Intellectuals and Public Responsibility in the Postwar United States.
"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 ... Read more