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Wartime research and the quantification of American sociology. The view from « the American Soldier

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ID7103663
AuthorsLibby Schweber (0000-0002-6069-0002, Harvard University Press, corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume6
Issue1
Pages65-65
Publication date2002-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevue d Histoire des Sciences Humaines (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1622-468X • E-ISSN: 1963-1022
PublisherCAIRN (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3917/rhsh.006.0065
OpenAlexW2087547302
LanguageEN
Citations received15
References cited32

L’étude des quatre volumes de « l’American Soldier », ouvrage restituant les recherches conduites durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale par le « Research Bureau of the Information and Education Division » du War Department American, permet de saisir un moment important, en fait un virage, de l’histoire de la sociologie américaine. L’ouvrage annonce l’établissement des statistiques comme méthodes faisant autorité et le développement d’un « positivisme instrumental » comme mode de raisonnement dominant. Le soutien militaire et gouvernemental, l’émergence des sciences du comportement et la création de centres de recherches universitaires interdisciplinaires consacrés aux recherches appliquées constituent le contexte du mariage des statistiques et des recherches par enquêtes empiriques. La rédaction de l’ouvrage s’est faite durant l’après-guerre, au moment des débats sur la création de la National Science Foundation et sur l’intégration des sciences sociales en son sein. L’ouvrage met l’accent, de façon rhétorique, sur la relation entre la théorie et la recherche appliquée alors que l’analyse elle-même réduit la théorie à la définition méthodologique des concepts. Ce contraste annonce l’avènement d’une coupure entre la haute réflexion théorique et les recherches quantitatives en sociologie pénétrées par l’opérationnisme

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Citations per year0,71
Citation span2005 - 2024 (20)
Citation velocityrecent
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