基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2008.
Full Description
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.
Contents
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction 1
Chapter 2 The Postwar Campaign for Scientific Legitimacy 29
Chapter 3 Quantitative Methods and the Institutionalization of Exclusivity 60
Chapter 4 Social Theory and the Romance of American Alienation 90
Chapter 5 Theories of Mass Society and the Advent of a New Elitism 115
Chapter 6 Fads, Foibles, and Autopsies: Unwelcome Publicity for Diffident 160
Sociologists
Chapter 7 Pseudoscience and Social Engineering: American Sociology's 225
Public Image in the Fifties
Chapter 8 The Perils of Popularity: Public Sociology and Its Antagonists 264
Conclusion The Legacy of the Scientific Consensus 301
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