The Americanization of social science (Record no. 3985)
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| fixed length control field | 02048nam a2200373 a 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 301.0973/09045 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Haney, David Paul, |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Americanization of social science |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Philadelphia : |
| Name of publisher | Temple University Press, |
| Year of publication | 2008. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xii, 283 p. ; |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 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. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Sociology |
| Topical Term | Sociology |
| Topical Term | Sociologists |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10279958 |
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