Dorothy Ro

Biographic Data

ID3785723
NAMEDorothy Ro
GIVEN NAMESDorothy
FAMILY NAMERo
SIGNATURERO D
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS24
WORKS AS AUTHOR14
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX3

  • Whatever Happened to the Social in American Social Thought? Part 2

    Open AccessDorothy Ro, Dorothy RossARTICLEModern Intellectual History2021Cited by: 3References: 7

    The liberal social thought of the long 1950s is best seen as an attempt to combat the threat that the United States, as a modern mass society, could succumb to totalitarianism. Widely discussed texts like Escape from Freedom, The Vital Center, The Lonely Crowd , and The Origins of Totalitarianism announced the threat. Academic and theoretical studies worked to provide social supports for now weakened individuals or to find behavioral evidence tha…

  • The Many Lives of Institutionalism in American Social Science

    Dorothy Ro, Dorothy RossARTICLEPolity1995Cited by: 1

  • Las ciencias sociales en Estados Unidos desde la perspectiva de una historiadora

    Open AccessDorothy Ro, Dorothy RossARTICLESecuencia1994

    Análisis del desarrollo teórico historiográfico norteamericano desde el siglo XVIII al XIX Destaca la permanencia del "excepcionalismo norteamericano" ante las influencias metodológicas y filosóficas europeas. Señala la asociación del método científico con las ciencias sociales como determinante de la tendencia triunfalista estadunidense que sostiene y justifica la defensa de la utopía progresista y democrática de su cultura

  • An historian's view of American social science

    Open AccessDorothy Ro, Dorothy RossARTICLEJournal of the History of the…1993

    This paper explicates the argument of The Origins of American Science. Starting from my own historical premises and the origin of the social sciences in both historicism and science, I compare the divergent historical orientations of the sociologies of Robert Park and Max Weber. I argue that the inclination of American social science toward scientism and liberalism derives from the national ideology of American exceptionalism. Since this structur…

  • The Origins of American Social Science

    Robert B Westbrook, Robert Westbrook et al.REVIEWJournal of American History1992

    Journal Article The Origins of American Social Science. By Dorothy Ross. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xxii + 508 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-521-35092-1.) Get access Robert Westbrook Robert Westbrook University of Rochester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Pages 613–615, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080053 Published: 01 September 1992

  • The Origins of American Social Science

    Roscoe C Hinkle, Dorothy Ro et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1992Cited by: 8

  • The Origins of American Social Science

    Hamilton Cravens, Dorothy RoREVIEWHistory of Education Quarterly1992

  • The Origins of American Social Science

    Open AccessA W Coats, Dorothy Ro et al.ARTICLEAcademe1992Cited by: 12

  • The Origins of American Social Science

    James Hoopes, Dorothy RoREVIEWThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1992

  • Against canons

    Open AccessDorothy Ro, Dorothy RossARTICLESociety1991

  • In Search of White Crows

    Dorothy Ro, Dorothy Ross et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1978

  • The Legacy of Albion Small . Vernon K. Dibble

    Dorothy Ro, Dorothy RossARTICLEIsis1977

  • The Intelligence of a People

    Dorothy Ro, Dorothy Ross et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1976

  • The "zeitgeist" and american psychology

    Open AccessDorothy Ro, Dorothy RossARTICLEJournal of the History of the…1969References: 1