Searchers, Seers, and Shakers
Masters of Social Science

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Sommario

1: Introduction; 1: The Coming of Social Science; 2: The Three Bases of Social Science; 2: Discoverers; 3: Louis and Mary Leakey and the Dawn of Humanity; 4: Margaret Mead and the Varieties of Human Culture; 5: B.F. Skinner and the Principles of Operant Behavior; 3: Theorists; 6: John Dewey and the Social Logic of Inquiry; 7: Talcott Parsons and the Synthesis of Social Theory; 8: Kenneth Boulding: Economist Without Boundaries; 4: Reformers; 9: Gunnar and Alva Myrdal: Social Science as Social Engineering; 10: C. Wright Mills: The Social Scientist as Rebel; 11: Daniel Patrick Moynihan: The Social Scientist as Politician; 5: Conclusions; 12: Masters of Social Science

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James A. Schellenberg

Riassunto

This volume offers intellectual portraits of eleven giants of the modern social sciences