Mark Solovey
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 973322 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mark Solovey |
| NOMBRES | Mark |
| APELLIDO | Solovey |
| FIRMA | SOLOVEY M |
| AFILIACIONES | Arizona State University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 168 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
The Machine Takes Our Jobs Away
This paper examines the Chicago sociologist William F. Ogburn's (1886-1959) views about technological unemployment, which were intimately connected to his analysis of the social impacts of technological developments and resulting social problems due to cultural lag. We trace the development of his views as seen through his well-known 1922 book, Social Change with Respect to Culture and Original Nature, his important contributions to the President…
Society on the Edge
When the core social science disciplines first took shape in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, one of the central challenges was to understand various ills produced by a modern industrializing, urbanizing, and increasingly technological society. Those problems included everything from political corruption and other threats to democracy to economic slumps, social ills associated with a wide variety of thin…
Introduction
Cold War Social Science
Social Science for What
How the NSF became an important yet controversial patron for the social sciences, influencing debates over their scientific status and social relevance. In the early Cold War years, the U.S. government established the National Science Foundation (NSF), a civilian agency that soon became widely known for its dedication to supporting first-rate science. The agency's 1950 enabling legislation made no mention of the social sciences, although it inclu…
Living well
Project Camelot
Cold War Social Science
From the end of World War II to the early 1970s, American social science expanded in dramatic and unprecedented fashion. Moreover, nothing like it has happened again. Consider the following figures in total membership for the major national professional society for sociologists, the American Sociological Association (ASA, and prior to 1959 known as the American Sociological Society). Founded in 1905, this organization had 1,021 members in 1920, 1…
Cold War Social Science
From World War II to the early 1970s, social science research expanded in dramatic and unprecedented fashion in the United States. This volume examines how, why, and with what consequences this rapid
Senator Fred Harris's National Social Science Foundation Proposal
During the 1960s, a growing contingent of left-leaning voices claimed that the social sciences suffered mistreatment and undue constraints within the natural science-dominated federal science establishment. According to these critics, the entrenched scientific pecking order in Washington had an unreasonable commitment to the unity of the sciences, which reinforced unacceptable inequalities between the social and the natural sciences. The most imp…
The Price of Success
Harry Alpert (19121977), the US sociologist, is best-known for his directorship of the National Science Foundation’s social science programme in the 1950s. This study extends our understanding of Alpert in two main ways: first, by examining the earlier development of his views and career. Beginning with his 1939 biography of Emile Durkheim, we explore the early development of Alpert’s views about foundational questions concerning the scientific…
Marginal to the Revolution
American economics largely ignored the behavioral sciences movement in the decade after World War II. The social scientists who adopted the "behavioral sciences" moniker were self-consciously nomothetic, fond of mathematics and statistical analysis, and eager to stand close to the natural sciences. The same was true of leading postwar economists, and yet they alone opted out, with only a few exceptions. We explore this divide as it emerged in the…
Riding natural scientists' coattails onto the endless frontier
This article proposes that the postwar National Science Foundation (NSF) debate constituted a critical, transitional episode in American social science and partisan politics. I show that by responding to powerful conservative critics in the scientific and political communities, the Social Science Research Council's (SSRC's) leading scholars (re)asserted a contested scientistic strategy-to advance the social sciences by following the natural scien…
The making of the cold war enemy
Science and the State During the Cold War
Project Camelot and the 1960s Epistemological Revolution
Project Camelot, a military-sponsored, social science study of revolution, was cancelled in 1965 amidst international and national discussion about the study's political implications. Subsequently, Camelot became the focus of a wide-ranging controversy about the connections between Cold War politics, military patronage, and American social science. This paper argues that following Camelot's demise, efforts to rethink the politics-patronage-social…
Welfare in America
The myth of american individualism
Misunderstanding Science? The Public Reconstruction of Science and Technology
Whatever possessed the president? Academic experts and presidential policy, 1960-1988
Hot Science/Cold War
President Truman’s signature on the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 marked the end of a seven-year battle to create a postwar federal science agency.’ Dramatically different visions separated the two sides in the struggle. Populists and many New Dealers advocated an agency that would link scientific research directly to economic development and make the results of federally funded research widely available for commercial use. They also wa…
Gunnar Myrdal and America's Conscience
Award Recipients
The legacy
Project Camelot and the 1960s Epistemological Revolution
Project Camelot, a military-sponsored, social science study of revolution, was cancelled in 1965 amidst international and national discussion about the study's political implications. Subsequently, Camelot became the focus of a wide-ranging controversy about the connections between Cold War politics, military patronage, and American social science. This paper argues that following Camelot's demise, efforts to rethink the politics-patronage-social…
Cold War Social Science
Science and the State During the Cold War
Social Science for What
How the NSF became an important yet controversial patron for the social sciences, influencing debates over their scientific status and social relevance. In the early Cold War years, the U.S. government established the National Science Foundation (NSF), a civilian agency that soon became widely known for its dedication to supporting first-rate science. The agency's 1950 enabling legislation made no mention of the social sciences, although it inclu…
Marginal to the Revolution
American economics largely ignored the behavioral sciences movement in the decade after World War II. The social scientists who adopted the "behavioral sciences" moniker were self-consciously nomothetic, fond of mathematics and statistical analysis, and eager to stand close to the natural sciences. The same was true of leading postwar economists, and yet they alone opted out, with only a few exceptions. We explore this divide as it emerged in the…
Riding natural scientists' coattails onto the endless frontier
This article proposes that the postwar National Science Foundation (NSF) debate constituted a critical, transitional episode in American social science and partisan politics. I show that by responding to powerful conservative critics in the scientific and political communities, the Social Science Research Council's (SSRC's) leading scholars (re)asserted a contested scientistic strategy-to advance the social sciences by following the natural scien…
Cold War Social Science
From World War II to the early 1970s, social science research expanded in dramatic and unprecedented fashion in the United States. This volume examines how, why, and with what consequences this rapid
Society on the Edge
When the core social science disciplines first took shape in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, one of the central challenges was to understand various ills produced by a modern industrializing, urbanizing, and increasingly technological society. Those problems included everything from political corruption and other threats to democracy to economic slumps, social ills associated with a wide variety of thin…
Senator Fred Harris's National Social Science Foundation Proposal
During the 1960s, a growing contingent of left-leaning voices claimed that the social sciences suffered mistreatment and undue constraints within the natural science-dominated federal science establishment. According to these critics, the entrenched scientific pecking order in Washington had an unreasonable commitment to the unity of the sciences, which reinforced unacceptable inequalities between the social and the natural sciences. The most imp…
The Price of Success
Harry Alpert (19121977), the US sociologist, is best-known for his directorship of the National Science Foundation’s social science programme in the 1950s. This study extends our understanding of Alpert in two main ways: first, by examining the earlier development of his views and career. Beginning with his 1939 biography of Emile Durkheim, we explore the early development of Alpert’s views about foundational questions concerning the scientific…
Hot Science/Cold War
President Truman’s signature on the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 marked the end of a seven-year battle to create a postwar federal science agency.’ Dramatically different visions separated the two sides in the struggle. Populists and many New Dealers advocated an agency that would link scientific research directly to economic development and make the results of federally funded research widely available for commercial use. They also wa…
Living well
Gunnar Myrdal and America's Conscience
Award Recipients
The legacy
Hot Science/Cold War
President Truman’s signature on the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 marked the end of a seven-year battle to create a postwar federal science agency.’ Dramatically different visions separated the two sides in the struggle. Populists and many New Dealers advocated an agency that would link scientific research directly to economic development and make the results of federally funded research widely available for commercial use. They also wa…
Misunderstanding Science? The Public Reconstruction of Science and Technology
Whatever possessed the president? Academic experts and presidential policy, 1960-1988
The myth of american individualism
Science and the State During the Cold War
Project Camelot and the 1960s Epistemological Revolution
Project Camelot, a military-sponsored, social science study of revolution, was cancelled in 1965 amidst international and national discussion about the study's political implications. Subsequently, Camelot became the focus of a wide-ranging controversy about the connections between Cold War politics, military patronage, and American social science. This paper argues that following Camelot's demise, efforts to rethink the politics-patronage-social…
Welfare in America
The making of the cold war enemy
Riding natural scientists' coattails onto the endless frontier
This article proposes that the postwar National Science Foundation (NSF) debate constituted a critical, transitional episode in American social science and partisan politics. I show that by responding to powerful conservative critics in the scientific and political communities, the Social Science Research Council's (SSRC's) leading scholars (re)asserted a contested scientistic strategy-to advance the social sciences by following the natural scien…
The Price of Success
Harry Alpert (19121977), the US sociologist, is best-known for his directorship of the National Science Foundation’s social science programme in the 1950s. This study extends our understanding of Alpert in two main ways: first, by examining the earlier development of his views and career. Beginning with his 1939 biography of Emile Durkheim, we explore the early development of Alpert’s views about foundational questions concerning the scientific…
Marginal to the Revolution
American economics largely ignored the behavioral sciences movement in the decade after World War II. The social scientists who adopted the "behavioral sciences" moniker were self-consciously nomothetic, fond of mathematics and statistical analysis, and eager to stand close to the natural sciences. The same was true of leading postwar economists, and yet they alone opted out, with only a few exceptions. We explore this divide as it emerged in the…
Cold War Social Science
From the end of World War II to the early 1970s, American social science expanded in dramatic and unprecedented fashion. Moreover, nothing like it has happened again. Consider the following figures in total membership for the major national professional society for sociologists, the American Sociological Association (ASA, and prior to 1959 known as the American Sociological Society). Founded in 1905, this organization had 1,021 members in 1920, 1…
Cold War Social Science
From World War II to the early 1970s, social science research expanded in dramatic and unprecedented fashion in the United States. This volume examines how, why, and with what consequences this rapid
Senator Fred Harris's National Social Science Foundation Proposal
During the 1960s, a growing contingent of left-leaning voices claimed that the social sciences suffered mistreatment and undue constraints within the natural science-dominated federal science establishment. According to these critics, the entrenched scientific pecking order in Washington had an unreasonable commitment to the unity of the sciences, which reinforced unacceptable inequalities between the social and the natural sciences. The most imp…
Project Camelot
Living well
Social Science for What
How the NSF became an important yet controversial patron for the social sciences, influencing debates over their scientific status and social relevance. In the early Cold War years, the U.S. government established the National Science Foundation (NSF), a civilian agency that soon became widely known for its dedication to supporting first-rate science. The agency's 1950 enabling legislation made no mention of the social sciences, although it inclu…
Introduction
Cold War Social Science
Society on the Edge
When the core social science disciplines first took shape in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, one of the central challenges was to understand various ills produced by a modern industrializing, urbanizing, and increasingly technological society. Those problems included everything from political corruption and other threats to democracy to economic slumps, social ills associated with a wide variety of thin…
The Machine Takes Our Jobs Away
This paper examines the Chicago sociologist William F. Ogburn's (1886-1959) views about technological unemployment, which were intimately connected to his analysis of the social impacts of technological developments and resulting social problems due to cultural lag. We trace the development of his views as seen through his well-known 1922 book, Social Change with Respect to Culture and Original Nature, his important contributions to the President…
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