Cold War social science : transnational entanglements
Intro -- Foreword: The Cold War and the Transformation of Social Science -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Cold War Social Science, Transnational Entanglements -- Scope, Goals, Organization -- Exchanges across the Iro...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature Switzerland AG,
[2021]
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| Schlagworte: | Social sciences Cold War Electronic books Sozialwissenschaften Ost-West-Konflikt |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 400 Seiten) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Intro -- Foreword: The Cold War and the Transformation of Social Science -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Cold War Social Science, Transnational Entanglements -- Scope, Goals, Organization -- Exchanges across the Iron Curtain -- Modernization Theory Meets Postcolonial Nation Building -- Creating Good Citizens -- Social Science under Debate -- Taking Stock -- Liberation/Repression -- Value-Free and Detached/Value-Laden and Engaged -- Center-Periphery/Polycentric -- Target Audiences and Timeliness -- References -- Part I: Exchanges Across the Iron Curtain -- Chapter 2: "Overtake and Surpass": Soviet Algorithmic Thinking as a Reinvention of Western Theories during the Cold War -- Programmed Instruction: From American Behaviorism to Soviet Cybernetics -- Following the West: The Mathematization of Soviet Psychology -- The Rise and Departure of the Soviet Leader in Programmed Instruction -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Scientometrics with and without Computers: The Cold War Transnational Journeys of the Science Citation Index -- Making the Science Citation Index in Cold War America -- East-West Exchanges: A Socialist Market for a Capitalist Product -- The Vicissitudes of the Science Citation Index in the USSR -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Cold War Social Sciences beyond Academia? Radio Free Europe and the Transnational Circulation of Cold War Knowledge during the "CIA Years," 1950-1971 -- RFE as a "Surrogate" Radio in the Early Cold war -- More than Just Sound: Radio Free Europe as a Non-Academic Producer of Cold War Knowledge -- The Transsystemic and Transatlantic Circulation of RFE's Cold War Knowledge -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Modernization Theory Meets Postcolonial Nation Building. |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 400 Seiten) Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9783030702465 3030702464 9783030702458 3030702456 9783030702489 3030702480 |