Cold War Social Science : Knowledge Production, Liberal Democracy, and Human Nature （Reprint）

Solovey, Mark (EDT)/ Cravens, Hamilton (EDT)

Palgrave Macmillan（2014/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 270 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781137388353
• DDC分類 973

Full Description

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