Age of System: Understanding the Development of Modern Social Science

by Hunter Heyck and Hunter Crowther-Heyck

Book Overview

In the years after World War II, a new generation of scholars redefined the central concepts and practices of social science in America.

Before the Second World War, social scientists struggled to define and defend their disciplines. After the war, "high modern" social scientists harnessed new resources in a quest to create a unified understanding of human behavior--and to remake the world in the image of their new model man.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421417103
• ISBN13: 9781421417103
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher