TY - BOOK AU - Heyck,Hunter TI - Age of System: Understanding the Development of Modern Social Science SN - 9781421417110 AV - H53.U5 C769 2015 U1 - 300.9/04 PY - 2015/// CY - Baltimore PB - Johns Hopkins University Press KW - Social sciences--United States--History--20th century KW - Social sciences--History--20th century KW - Social sciences--Philosophy KW - System theory--History KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - A highly accomplished historian, Heyck relays this complicated story with unusual clarity UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3433438 ER -