David Paul Haney: The Americanization of Social Science

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>A controversial explanation for sociology's isolation from American society<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/sc_add_query.cgi/7700/1945_reg.ctl" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/sc_modify_query.cgi" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/sc_checkout.cgi" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1518_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><h1>The Americanization of Social Science</h1> <H2>Intellectuals and Public Responsibility in the Postwar United States</H2> <h3>David Paul Haney</h3> <P>cloth 159213713X $39.95, Jan 08, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <BR> 296 pp 6x9 </P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"</i>The Americanization of Social Science <i>is written so beautifully, so engagingly, and Haney is so widely read in the sociology and context of the 1950s, that this is both a wonderful social history of the discipline and, at the same time, an astute sociological analysis of the field's consolidation. The 1950s may not have been quite the golden age of sociology, but it certainly attracted messianic intellects, the likes of which we have not seen since. This book puts them all in motion, as some struggled to shore up professional boundaries while others exploded into the public arena. This is sure to further stimulate the debate about public sociology.</i></i>"<br>&#151<b> Michael Burawoy</b>, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley</I></BLOCKQUOTE> <p>A highly readable introduction to and overview of the postwar social sciences in the United States, <i>The Americanization of Social Science</i> explores a critical period in the evolution of American sociology's professional identity from the late 1940s through the early 1960s. David Paul Haney contends that during this time leading sociologists encouraged a professional secession from public engagement in the name of establishing the discipline's scientific integrity. <p> According to Haney, influential practitioners encouraged a willful withdrawal from public sociology by separating their professional work from public life. He argues that this separation diminished sociologists' capacity for conveying their findings to wider publics, especially given their ambivalence towards the mass media, as witnessed by the professional estrangement that scholars like David Riesman and C. Wright Mills experienced as their writing found receptive lay audiences. He argues further that this sense of professional insularity has inhibited sociology's participation in the national discussion about social issues to the present day. <BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P> <br>Preface <br>Acknowledgements <br>1. Introduction <br>2. The Postwar Campaign for Scientific Legitimacy <br>3. Quantitative Mathods and the Institutionalization of Exclusivity <br>4. Social Theory and the Romance of American Alienation <br>5. Theories of Mass Society and the Advent of a New Elitism <br>6. Fads, Foibles, and Autopsies: Unwelcome Publicity for Different Sociologists <br>7. Pseudoscience and Social Engineering: American Sociology's Public Image in the Fifties <br>8. The Perils of Popularity: Public Sociology and Its Antagonists <br>9. Conclusion: The Legacy of the Scientific Identity <br>Bibliography <br>Index </P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2> <P><b>David Paul Haney</b> is an Adjunct Professor at Austin Community College and St. Edward's University</P> <BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2> <p><A HREF="/tempress/sociology.html" TARGET="_top">Sociology</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/american.html" TARGET="_top">American Studies</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/general.html" TARGET="_top">General Interest</a> </p> <p align="center"><a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/sc_add_query.cgi/7700/1945_reg.ctl" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/sc_modify_query.cgi" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/sc_checkout.cgi" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="copyright.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Web Copyright Policy';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Web Copyright Policy">©</a> 2008 <a href="http://www.temple.edu" target="new" onMouseOver="window.status='Link to Temple University home page';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Link to Temple University home page">Temple University</a>. All Rights Reserved. http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1945_reg.html</font></p>