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

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

edited by Mark Solovey and Hamilton Cravens

Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

1st ed

Includes bibliographical references and index

Foreword. Positioning social science in Cold War America / Theodore M. Porter
1. Cold War social science : specter, reality, or useful concept? / Mark Solovey
2. The rise and fall of wartime social science : Harvard's Refugee Interview Project, 1950-1954 / David C. Engerman
3. Futures studies : a new social science rooted in Cold War strategic thinking / Kaya Tolon
4. 'It was all connected' : computers and linguistics in early Cold War America / Janet Martin-Nielsen
5. Epistemic design : theory and data in Harvard's Department of Social Relations / Joel Isaac
6. Producing reason / Hunter Heyck
7. Column right, march! nationalism, scientific positivism, and the conservative turn of the American social sciences in the Cold War era / Hamilton Cravens
8. From expert democracy to Beltway banditry : how the antiwar movement expanded the military-academic-industrial complex / Joy Rohde
9. Neo-evolutionist anthropology, the Cold War, and the beginnings of the world turn in U.S. scholarship / Howard Brick
10. Maintaining humans / Edward Jones-Imhotep
11. Psychology, psychologists, and the creativity movement : the lives of method inside and outside the Cold War / Michael Bycroft
12. An anthropologist on TV : Ashley Montagu and the biological basis of human nature, 1945-1960 / Nadine Weidman
13. Cold War emotions : mother love and the war over human nature / Marga Vicedo