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From World War II to the early 1970s, social science research expanded in dramatic and unprecedented fashion in the United States. This volume examines how, why, and with what consequences this rapid and yet contested expansion depended on the entanglement of the social sciences with the Cold War.
Contents
Foreword: Positioning Social Science in Cold War America; T.M.Porter Cold War Social Science: Spectre, Reality, or Useful Concept?; M.Solovey PART I: KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION The Rise and Fall of Wartime Social Science: Harvard's Refugee Interview Project, 1950-54; D.C.Engerman Futures Studies: A New Social Science Rooted in Cold War Strategic Thinking; K.Tolon 'It was All Connected': Computers and Linguistics in Early Cold War America; J.Martin-Nielsen Epistemic Design: Theory and Data in Harvard's Department of Social Relations; J.Isaac PART II: LIBERAL DEMOCRACY Producing Reason; H.Heyck Column Right, March! Nationalism, Scientific Positivism, and the Conservative Turn of the American Social Sciences in the Cold War Era; H.Cravens From Expert Democracy to Beltway Banditry: How the Anti-War Movement Expanded the Military-Academic-Industrial Complex; J.Rohde Neo-Evolutionist Anthropology, the Cold War, and the Beginnings of theWorld Turn in U.S. Scholarship; H.Brick PART III: HUMAN NATURE Maintaining Humans; E.Jones-Imhotep Psychology, Psychologists, and the Creativity Movement: The Lives of Method Inside and Outside the Cold War; M.Bycroft An Anthropologist on TV: Ashley Montagu and the Biological Basis of Human Nature, 1945-1960; N.Weidman Cold War Emotions: The War over Human Nature; M.Vicedo
