Engineering Society [electronic resource] : The Role of the Human and Social Sciences in Modern Societies, 1880-1980 /
Brückweh, Kerstin.author.
Wetzell, Richard F.author.
Schumann, D.editor.
Ziemann, B.editor.
Explaining crime by reference to abnormalities of the brain is just one example of how the human and social sciences have influenced the approach to social problems in Western societies since 1880. Focusing on applications such as penal policy, therapy, and marketing, this volume examines how these sciences have become embedded in society.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: The Scientization of the Social in Comparative Perspective; 2 Embedding the Human and Social Sciences in Western Societies, 1880-1980: Reflections on Trends and Methods of Current Research; Part I: Social and Penal Policy; 3 Contesting Risk: Specialist Knowledge and Workplace Accidents in Britain, Germany, and Italy, 1870-1920; 4 Politics Through the Back Door: Expert Knowledge in International Welfare Organizations; 5 Rationalizing the Individual - Engineering Society: The Case of Sweden
6 The Neurosciences and Criminology: How New Experts Have Moved into Public Policy and DebatePart II: Diagnosis and Therapy; 7 The Psychological Sciences and the 'Scientization' and 'Engineering' of Society in Twentieth-Century Britain; 8 Mental Health as Civic Virtue: Psychological Definitions of Citizenship in the Netherlands, 1900-1985; 9 Human Sciences, Child Reform, and Politics in Spain, 1890-1936; 10 Narcissism: Social Critique in Me-Decade America; Part III: Polling, Marketing, and Organizations; 11 Hearing the Masses: The Modern Science of Opinion in the United States
12 Observing the Sovereign: Opinion Polls and the Restructuring of the Body Politic in West Germany, 1945-199013 Consumers, Markets, and Research: The Role of Political Rhetoric and the Social Sciences in the Engineering of British and American Consumer Society, 1920-1960; 14 Business Organizations, Foundations, and the State as Promoters of Applied Social Sciences in the United States and Switzerland, 1890-1960; 15 Catholic Church Reform and Organizations Research in the Netherlands and Germany, 1945-1980; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Explaining crime by reference to abnormalities of the brain is just one example of how the human and social sciences have influenced the approach to social problems in Western societies since 1880. Focusing on applications such as penal policy, therapy, and marketing, this volume examines how these sciences have become embedded in society.
Sociology.
Social history.
History.
History, Modern.
Sociology, general.
Social History.
History of Science.
History, general.
Modern History.