1st Edition
Advocacy and Objectivity A Crisis in the Professionalization of American Social Science, 1865-1905
By Mary Furner
Copyright 2011
408 Pages
by
Routledge
408 Pages
by
Routledge
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This award-winning book of the Frederick Jackson Turner Studies describes the early development of social science professions in the United States. Furner traces the academic process in economics, sociology, and political science. She devotes considerable attention to economics in the 1880s, when first-generation professionals wrestled with the enormously difficult social questions associated... Read more
PrefaceIntroduction to the Transaction EditionIntroduction1 Reform versus Knowledge2 Scientists of Wealth & Welfare3 Battle of the Schools4 Patterns of Professionalism5 Compromise6 Compliance7 From Advocacy to Acceptability8 The Perils of Radicalism9 Permissible Dissent10 Collective Security11 Patterns of Authority12 Specialization13 ResolutionBibliographyIndex
Biography
Mary Furner
