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Engineering Society The Role of the Human and Social Sciences in Modern Societies, 1880-1980

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ISBN-10: 0230279074

ISBN-13: 9780230279070

Edition: 2012

Authors: Benjamin Ziemann, Kerstin Br�ckweh, Richard F. Wetzell, Dirk Schumann

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List price: $89.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Publication date: 10/10/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 318
Size: 6.35" wide x 10.15" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Benjamin Ziemann is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Sheffield.

Richard F. Wetzell is a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C.

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List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Scientization of the Social in Comparative Perspective
Embedding the Human and Social Sciences in Western Societies, 1880-1980: Reflections on Trends and Methods of Current Research
Social and Penal Policy
Contesting Risk: Specialist Knowledge and Workplace Accidents in Britain, Germany, and Italy, 1870-1920
Politics Through the Back Door: Expert Knowledge in International Welfare Organizations
Rationalizing the Individual - Engineering Society: The Case of Sweden
The Neurosciences and Criminology: How New Experts Have Moved into Public Policy and Debate
Diagnosis and Therapy
The Psychological Sciences and the 'Scientization' and 'Engineering' of Society in Twentieth-Century Britain
Mental Health as Civic Virtue: Psychological Definitions of Citizenship in the Netherlands, 1900-1985
Human Sciences, Child Reform, and Politics in Spain, 1890-1936
Narcissism: Social Critique in Me-Decade America
Polling, Marketing, and Organizations
Hearing the Masses: The Modern Science of Opinion in the United States
Observing the Sovereign: Opinion Polls and the Restructuring of the Body Politic in West Germany, 1945-1990
Consumers, Markets, and Research: The Role of Political Rhetoric and the Social Sciences in the Engineering of British and American Consumer Society, 1920-1960
Business Organizations, Foundations, and the State as Promoters of Applied Social Sciences in the United States and Switzerland, 1890-1960
Catholic Church Reform and Organizations Research in the Netherlands and Germany, 1945-1980
Index