Age of System : Understanding the Development of Modern Social Science.
Heyck, Hunter.
Age of System : Understanding the Development of Modern Social Science. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (271 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Organizational Revolution and the Human Sciences -- 1 High Modern Social Science: A Bird's-Eye View -- 2 Patrons of the Revolution: Ideas, Ideals, and Institutions in Postwar Social Science -- 3 The Magical Year 1956, Plus or Minus One -- 4 Producing Reason -- 5 Modernity and Social Change in American Social Science -- 6 A Model Science? -- Conclusion. History and Legacy, the Tree and the Web -- Appendix: The Journal Survey -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
A highly accomplished historian, Heyck relays this complicated story with unusual clarity.
9781421417110
Social sciences--United States--History--20th century.
Social sciences--History--20th century.
Social sciences--Philosophy.
System theory--History.
Electronic books.
H53.U5 C769 2015
300.9/04
Age of System : Understanding the Development of Modern Social Science. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (271 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Organizational Revolution and the Human Sciences -- 1 High Modern Social Science: A Bird's-Eye View -- 2 Patrons of the Revolution: Ideas, Ideals, and Institutions in Postwar Social Science -- 3 The Magical Year 1956, Plus or Minus One -- 4 Producing Reason -- 5 Modernity and Social Change in American Social Science -- 6 A Model Science? -- Conclusion. History and Legacy, the Tree and the Web -- Appendix: The Journal Survey -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
A highly accomplished historian, Heyck relays this complicated story with unusual clarity.
9781421417110
Social sciences--United States--History--20th century.
Social sciences--History--20th century.
Social sciences--Philosophy.
System theory--History.
Electronic books.
H53.U5 C769 2015
300.9/04