Knowledge for What: The Place of Social Science in American Culture

by Robert Staughton Lynd

Book Overview

Contents: Foreword ix; I. Social Science in Crisis 1; II. The Concept of "Culture" 11; III. The Pattern of American Culture 54; IV. The Social Sciences as Tools 114; V. Values and the Social Sciences 180; VI. Some Outrageous Hypotheses 202; Index 251

Originally published in 1939.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069162142X
• ISBN13: 9780691621425
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"