Cold War social science: knowledge production, liberal democracy, and human nature

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'sacknowledged leader in the field. This volume examines how, why, and with what consequences this rapid and yet contested expansion depended on the entanglement of the social sciences with the Cold War. Utilizing the controversial butuseful concept of "Cold War Social Science," the contributions gathered here reveal how scholars from established disciplines and new interdisciplinary fields of study made important contributions to long-standing debates about knowledge production, liberal democracy, and human nature in an era of diplomatic tension and ideological conflict. INDICE: Foreword: Positioning Social Science in Cold War America; .T.M.Porter. .Cold War Social Science: Spectre, Reality, or Useful Concept?; .M.Solovey. .PART I: KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION .The Rise and Fall of Wartime Social Science: Harvard's Refugee Interview Project, 1950-54; .D.C.Engerman. .Futures Studies: A New Social Science Rooted in Cold War Strategic Thinking; .K.Tolon. .'It was All Connected': Computers and Linguistics in Early Cold War America; .J.Martin-Nielsen. .Epistemic Design: Theory and Data in Harvard's Department ofSocial Relations; .J.Isaac. .PART II: LIBERAL DEMOCRACY.Producing Reason; .H.Heyck. .Column Right, March! Nationalism, Scientific Positivism, and the Conservative Turn of the American Social Sciences in the Cold War Era; .H.Cravens. .From Expert Democracy to Beltway Banditry: How the Anti-War Movement Expanded the Military-Academic-Industrial Complex; .J.Rohde. .Neo-Evolutionist Anthropology, the Cold War, and the Beginnings of the World Turn in U.S. Scholarship; .H.Brick. .PART III: HUMAN NATURE.Maintaining Humans; .E.Jones-Imhotep..Psychology, Psychologists, and the Creativity Movement: The Lives of Method Inside and Outside the Cold War; .M.Bycroft. .An Anthropologist on TV: AshleyMontagu and the Biological Basis of Human Nature, 1945-1960; .N.Weidman. .Cold War Emotions: The War over Human Nature; .M.Vicedo.

• ISBN: 978-0-230-34050-3
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 288
• Fecha Publicación: 17/01/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido