The Nationalization of the Social Sciences
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The Nationalization of the Social Sciences

  1. 305 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Nationalization of the Social Sciences

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1, 100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Introduction
  4. Part One. New York: The Campaign for the Social Sciences
  5. 1. The Bid to Nationalize American Social Science
  6. 2. Social Science: A Basic National Resource
  7. 3. The Status of the Social Sciences, 1950: A Tale of Two Reports
  8. Part Two. Cambridge: Parsons and Empirical Research
  9. 4. Theory and Fact in the Work of Talcott Parsons
  10. 5. The Integrating of the Social Sciences: Theoretical and Empirical Research and Training in the Department of Social Relations at Harvard
  11. 6. Parsons and Empirical Sociology
  12. Part Three. Washington: Federal Sponsorship of Social Science
  13. 7. Making a Case for the Social Sciences
  14. 8. The Many Faces of Social Science
  15. 9. Underdogging: The Early Career of the Social Sciences in the NSF
  16. 10. Federal Funding for Social Science
  17. 11. The Intellectual Consequences of Federal Support for the Social Sciences
  18. 12. Social Science as a National Resource: 1948 and 1982
  19. Part Four. An Editorial
  20. 13. Nationalization and the Social Sciences
  21. Index
  22. Contributors