A transatlantic history of the social sciences Robber Barons, the Third Reich and the invention of empirical social research

From the beginning of the twentieth century, scientific and social scientific research has been characterised by intellectual exchange between Europe and the US. The establishment of the Third Reich ensured that, from the German speaking world, at least, this became a one-way traffic. In this book C...

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Otros Autores: Fleck, Christian, 1954- author (author), Beister, Hella, translator (translator)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic 2011.
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Sumario:From the beginning of the twentieth century, scientific and social scientific research has been characterised by intellectual exchange between Europe and the US. The establishment of the Third Reich ensured that, from the German speaking world, at least, this became a one-way traffic. In this book Christian Fleck explores the invention of empirical social research, which by 1950 had become the binding norm of international scholarship, and he analyses the contribution of German refugee social scientists to its establishment. The major names are here, from Adorno and Horkheimer to Hirshman and
Notas:Originally published: Transatlatnische Bereicherungen : Die Erfindung der empirischen Sozialforschung. Suhrkamp, 2007.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (417 p.)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781283195034
9786613195036
9781849664332
9781849660501
Acceso:Open access