Social Science in the Crucible - The American Debate over Objectivity and Purpose, 1918-1941

Informationen zum Autor Mark C. Smith is Assistant Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Texas, Austin. Klappentext "As a collective intellectual biography of some of the foremost social science thinkers of the early to mid-century, this book provides perhaps the clearest picture yet of the dilemmas facing the scholar-as-democratic reformer. Smith manages a judicious blend of the personal biography and individual career path with a penetrating account of the subject's main writings and intellectual contributions. His book should be read by a large, interdisciplinary audience."--Leon Fink, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 3 1. American Social Science: Moralism and the Scientific Method 13 2. Wesley Mitchell and the Quantitative Approach 49 3. Charles Merriam and Technical Expertise 84 4. Robert Lynd and Knowledge for What? 120 5. Charles Beard and Activist Social Science 159 6. Harold D. Lasswell and the Lost Opportunity of the Purposive School 212 Conclusion 253 Notes 271 Index 336

Product details

• Authors: Mark C. Smith, Smith, Mark C Smith, Mark C. Smith
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.1994
• EAN: 9780822314974
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1497-4
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sozialtheorie, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, 1940 bis 1949 n. Chr., Zwischen den Weltkriegen (1919 bis 1939 n. Chr.), Sozialforschung und -statistik