Swedish Experiment in Family Politics - Myrdals and the Interwar Population Crises

This devastating account of the work of Gunnar and Alva Myrdal is a monumental case study in the uses and abuses of social science. It portrays how these two young scholars used the power of ideas to help engineer a new domestic order in Sweden.

List of contents

Introduction 1. The Social and Ideological Setting 2. Wellsprings of a New Approach 3. A Socialist Pronatalism 4. The New Population Debate 5. An Exercise in Ideological Control 6. Constructing the New Order 7. The Use and Abuse of Social Science

About the author

Allan C. Carlson

Summary

This devastating account of the work of Gunnar and Alva Myrdal is a monumental case study in the uses and abuses of social science

Product details

• Authors: Allan Carlson, Allan C. Carlson, Carlson Allan C.
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.1990
• EAN: 9780887382994
• ISBN: 978-0-88738-299-4
• No. of pages: 314
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Social welfare & social services, Social issues & processes, Social welfare and social services, Social and ethical issues, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies