Americanization of Social Science

David Paul Haney is an Adjunct Professor at Austin Community College and St. Edward's University.

"This is an important and timely work…. [W]hile it is excellent as an intellectual history of the sociological discipline from the late 1940s to the early 1960s, its importance in illuminating questions of the public role of intellectuals in a modern democratic society gives it a far wider significance…. This is a fluent, well-constructed, soundly researched and informative work that fills in an important but little-understood aspect of postwar American social, cultural and intellectual history." -Metapsychology Online

• Table of ContentsChapter 1    Introduction                                          1Chapter 2    The Postwar  Campaign for Scientific Legitimacy              29Chapter 3    Quantitative Methods and the Institutionalization of Exclusivity         60Chapter 4    Social Theory and the Romance of American Alienation                   90                                                  Chapter 5    Theories of Mass Society and the Advent of a New Elitism        115Chapter 6    Fads, Foibles, and Autopsies: Unwelcome Publicity for Diffident    160Sociologists                                                                                       Chapter 7    Pseudoscience and Social Engineering: American Sociology's         225Public Image in the FiftiesChapter 8    The Perils of Popularity: Public Sociology and Its Antagonists    264Conclusion    The Legacy of the Scientific Consensus                301Bibliography