The Nationalization of the Social Sciences /

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Ann...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Klausner, Samuel Z., Lidz, Victor M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Temas:
Social sciences > Research > United States > Finance.
Sciences sociales > Recherche > États-Unis > Finances.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Social sciences > Research > Finance.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part One. New York: The Campaign for the Social Sciences
  • 1. The Bid to Nationalize American Social Science
  • 2. Social Science: A Basic National Resource
  • 3. The Status of the Social Sciences, 1950: A Tale of Two Reports
  • Part Two. Cambridge: Parsons and Empirical Research
  • 4. Theory and Fact in the Work of Talcott Parsons
  • 5. The Integrating of the Social Sciences: Theoretical and Empirical Research and Training in the Department of Social Relations at Harvard
  • 6. Parsons and Empirical Sociology
  • Part Three. Washington: Federal Sponsorship of Social Science
  • 7. Making a Case for the Social Sciences
  • 8. The Many Faces of Social Science
  • 9. Underdogging: The Early Career of the Social Sciences in the NSF
  • 10. Federal Funding for Social Science
  • 11. The Intellectual Consequences of Federal Support for the Social Sciences
  • 12. Social Science as a National Resource: 1948 and 1982
  • Part Four. An Editorial
  • 13. Nationalization and the Social Sciences
  • Index
  • Contributors

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