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Title: The Americanization of social science intellectuals and public responsibility in the postwar United States / David Paul Haney.
Main Entry: Haney, David Paul, 1963-
ebrary, Inc.

Publisher: Temple University Press,
Publication Date: 2008.
Publication Place: Philadelphia :
ISBN: 9781592137138 (cloth : alk. paper)
159213713X (cloth : alk. paper)

Subject: Sociology -- Study and teaching -- United States.
Sociology -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Sociologists -- United States.
Electronic books.

Contents: Introduction -- The postwar campaign for scientific legitimacy -- Quantitative methods and the institutionalization of exclusivity -- Social theory and the romance of American alienation -- Theories of mass society and the advent of a new elitism -- Fads, foibles, and autopsies: unwelcome publicity for diffident sociologists -- Pseudoscience and social engineering: American sociology's public image in the fifties -- The perils of popularity: public sociology and its antagonists -- Conclusion: the legacy of the scientific identity.
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