Cold War Social Science

This book explores how the social sciences became entangled with the global Cold War. While duly recognizing the realities of nation states, national power, and national aspirations, the studies gathered here open up new lines of transnational investigation. Considering developments in a wide array of fields - anthropology, development studies, economics, education, political science, psychology, science studies, and sociology - that involved the movement of people, projects, funding, and ideas across diverse national contexts, this volume pushes scholars to rethink certain fundamental points about how we should understand - and thus how we should study - Cold War social science itself. Mark Solovey is Associate Professor in the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto, Canada. Christian Dayé is a sociologist at the Science, Technology and Society (STS) Unit of Graz University of Technology, Austria.

Auteur
Mark Solovey is Associate Professor in the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto, Canada.
Christian Dayé is a sociologist at the Science, Technology and Society (STS) Unit of Graz University of Technology, Austria.

Contenu

1. Introduction: Cold War Social Science, Transnational EntanglementsPart I Exchanges Across the Iron Curtain2. "Overtake and Surpass": Soviet Algorithmic Thinking as a Reinvention of Western Theories during the Cold War3. Scientometrics with and without Computers: The Cold War Transnational Journeys of the Science Citation Index4. Cold War Social Sciences beyond Academia? Radio Free Europe and the Transnational Circulation of Cold War Knowledge during the CIA Years, 19501971Part II Modernization Theory Meets Postcolonial Nation Building5. Becoming an Area Expert During the Cold War: Americanism and Lustropicalismo in the Transnational Career of Anthropologist Charles Wagley, 193919716. The Anthropologist as Deviant Modernizer: Felipe Landa Jocano's Journey through the Cold War, the Social Sciences, Decolonization, and Nation Building in the Philippines7. Latin America's Dependency Theory: A Counter-Cold War Social Science?Part III Creating Good Citizens8. The Last Battlefield of the Cold War: From Reform-Oriented Leisure Studies to Sociological Research on the Socialist Lifestyle in Czechoslovakia, 1950s19899. From Student-Centered Pedagogy to Student Labor: Chinese Education's Transnational Entanglements during the Cold WarPart IV Social Science Under Debate10. Decentering Cold War Social Science: Alva Myrdal's Social Scientific Internationalism at UNESCO, 1950195511. Transnational Constructions of Social Scientific Personae during the Cold War: The Case of Comparative Politics12. Planned Economies, Free Markets and the Social Sciences: The Cold War Origins of the Knowledge Society