The Politics Of Intellectual Identity And American Social Science 1945 1970
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The Politics Of Intellectual Identity And American Social Science 1945 1970
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Author : Mark Solovey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The Politics Of Intellectual Identity And American Social Science 1945 1970 written by Mark Solovey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with categories.
Psychologists On The March
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Author : James H. Capshew
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1999-01-13
Psychologists On The March written by James H. Capshew and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-13 with History categories.
Why are there so many psychologists in America today? Psychologists on the March seeks to answer this question through historical analysis of the middle years of this century. The book argues that the Second World War exerted a profound influence on the shape and structure of the field, transforming it from a small academic subject into an enormous mental health profession. It provides a case study of the interaction of scientific expertise and professional practice in the construction of a modern discipline.
Shaping Biology
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Author : Toby A. Appel
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2003-04-30
Shaping Biology written by Toby A. Appel and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04-30 with Science categories.
Historians of the postwar transformation of science have focused largely on the physical sciences, especially the relation of science to the military funding agencies. In Shaping Biology, Toby A. Appel brings attention to the National Science Foundation and federal patronage of the biological sciences. Scientists by training, NSF biologists hoped in the 1950s that the new agency would become the federal government's chief patron for basic research in biology, the only agency to fund the entire range of biology—from molecules to natural history museums—for its own sake. Appel traces how this vision emerged and developed over the next two and a half decades, from the activities of NSF's Division of Biological and Medical Sciences, founded in 1952, through the cold war expansion of the 1950s and 1960s and the constraints of the Vietnam War era, to its reorganization out of existence in 1975. This history of NSF highlights fundamental tensions in science policy that remain relevant today: the pull between basic and applied science; funding individuals versus funding departments or institutions; elitism versus distributive policies of funding; issues of red tape and accountability. In this NSF-funded study, Appel explores how the agency developed, how it worked, and what difference it made in shaping modern biology in the United States. Based on formerly untapped archival sources as well as on interviews of participants, and building upon prior historical literature, Shaping Biology covers new ground and raises significant issues for further research on postwar biology and on federal funding of science in general.
In Therapy We Trust
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Author : Eva S. Moskowitz
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2001-04-24
In Therapy We Trust written by Eva S. Moskowitz and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-04-24 with History categories.
This fascinating historical study of how America's obsession with self-fulfillment permeates all aspects of society includes a look at the history of Americans' fascination with therapy. 39 halftones and 1 line drawing.
The Contours Of America S Cold War
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Author : Matthew Farish
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2010
The Contours Of America S Cold War written by Matthew Farish and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Atomic bomb categories.
A Perilous Progress
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Author : Michael Alan Bernstein
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2014-08-12
A Perilous Progress written by Michael Alan Bernstein and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-12 with Business & Economics categories.
The economics profession in twentieth-century America began as a humble quest to understand the "wealth of nations." It grew into a profession of immense public prestige--and now suffers a strangely withered public purpose. Michael Bernstein portrays a profession that has ended up repudiating the state that nurtured it, ignoring distributive justice, and disproportionately privileging private desires in the study of economic life. Intellectual introversion has robbed it, he contends, of the very public influence it coveted and cultivated for so long. With wit and irony he examines how a community of experts now identified with uncritical celebration of ''free market'' virtues was itself shaped, dramatically so, by government and collective action. In arresting and provocative detail Bernstein describes economists' fitful efforts to sway a state apparatus where values and goals could seldom remain separate from means and technique, and how their vocation was ultimately humbled by government itself. Replete with novel research findings, his work also analyzes the historical peculiarities that led the profession to a key role in the contemporary backlash against federal initiatives dating from the 1930s to reform the nation's economic and social life. Interestingly enough, scholars have largely overlooked the history that has shaped this profession. An economist by training, Bernstein brings a historian's sensibilities to his narrative, utilizing extensive archival research to reveal unspoken presumptions that, through the agency of economists themselves, have come to mold and define, and sometimes actually deform, public discourse. This book offers important, even troubling insights to readers interested in the modern economic and political history of the United States and perplexed by recent trends in public policy debate. It also complements a growing literature on the history of the social sciences. Sure to have a lasting impact on its field, A Perilous Progress represents an extraordinary contribution of gritty empirical research and conceptual boldness, of grand narrative breadth and profound analytical depth.
Science Democracy And The American University
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Author : Andrew Jewett
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-05-01
Science Democracy And The American University written by Andrew Jewett and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-01 with History categories.
This book reinterprets the rise of the natural and social sciences as sources of political authority in modern America. Andrew Jewett demonstrates the remarkable persistence of a belief that the scientific enterprise carried with it a set of ethical values capable of grounding a democratic culture - a political function widely assigned to religion. The book traces the shifting formulations of this belief from the creation of the research universities in the Civil War era to the early Cold War years. It examines hundreds of leading scholars who viewed science not merely as a source of technical knowledge, but also as a resource for fostering cultural change. This vision generated surprisingly nuanced portraits of science in the years before the military-industrial complex and has much to teach us today about the relationship between science and democracy.
Scientists In The Classroom
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Author : J. Rudolph
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2002-05-02
Scientists In The Classroom written by J. Rudolph and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-05-02 with Education categories.
During the 1950s, leading American scientists embarked on an unprecedented project to remake high school science education. Dissatisfaction with the 'soft' school curriculum of the time advocated by the professional education establishment, and concern over the growing technological sophistication of the Soviet Union, led government officials to encourage a handful of elite research scientists, fresh from their World War II successes, to revitalize the nations' science curricula. In Scientists in the Classroom , John L. Rudolph argues that the Cold War environment, long neglected in the history of education literature, is crucial to understanding both the reasons for the public acceptance of scientific authority in the field of education and the nature of the curriculum materials that were eventually produced. Drawing on a wealth of previously untapped resources from government and university archives, Rudolph focuses on the National Science Foundation-supported curriculum projects initiated in 1956. What the historical record reveals, according to Rudolph, is that these materials were designed not just to improve American science education, but to advance the professional interest of the American scientific community in the postwar period as well.
Modernization As Ideology
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Author : Michael E. Latham
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2000
Modernization As Ideology written by Michael E. Latham and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Political Science categories.
Providing new insight on the intellectual and cultural dimensions of the Cold War, Michael Latham reveals how social science theory helped shape American foreign policy during the Kennedy administration. He shows how, in the midst of America's protracted
Philanthropic Foundations
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Author : Ellen Condliffe Lagemann
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1999-07-22
Philanthropic Foundations written by Ellen Condliffe Lagemann and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-07-22 with Social Science categories.
"Foundations are socially and politically significant, but this simple fact... has mostly been ignored by students of American history.... This collection represents an important contribution to an emerging field." -- Kenneth Prewitt, Social Science Research Council