Cold war social science : knowledge production, liberal democracy, and human nature / edited by Mark Solovey and Hamilton Cravens.

"From World War II to the early 1970s, social science research expanded in dramatic and unprecedented fashion in the United States, which became the world's acknowledged leader in the field. This volume examines how, why, and with what consequences this rapid and yet contested expansion depended on...

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Other Authors: Solovey, Mark, 1964-
Cravens, Hamilton
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
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Physical Description:[xvii], 270 pages
Format: Book

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505 8 |a Machine generated contents note: -- Foreword: Positioning Social Science in Cold War America - Theodore M. Porter * Cold War Social Science: Spectre, Reality, or Useful Concept? - Mark Solovey * PART I: Knowledge Production * The Rise and Fall of Wartime Social Science: Harvard's Refugee Interview Project, 1950-54 - David C. Engerman * Futures Studies: A New Social Science Rooted in Cold War Strategic Thinking - Kaya Tolon * 'It was All Connected': Computers and Linguistics in Early Cold War America - Janet Martin-Nielsen * Epistemic Design: Theory and Data in Harvard's Department of Social Relations - Joel Isaac * PART II: Liberal Democracy * Producing Reason - Hunter Heyck * Column Right, March! Nationalism, Scientific Positivism, and the Conservative Turn of the American Social Sciences in the Cold War Era - Hamilton Cravens * From Expert Democracy to Beltway Banditry: How the Anti-War Movement Expanded the Military-Academic-Industrial Complex - Joy Rohde * Neo-Evolutionist Anthropology, the Cold War, and the Beginnings of the World Turn in U.S. Scholarship - Howard Brick * PART III: Human Nature * Maintaining Humans - Edward Jones-Imhotep * Psychology, Psychologists, and the Creativity Movement: The Lives of Method Inside and Outside the Cold War - Michael Bycroft * An Anthropologist on TV: Ashley Montagu and the Biological Basis of Human Nature, 1945-1960 - Nadine Weidman * Cold War Emotions: The War over Human Nature - Marga Vicedo. 
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