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Author | : Hunter Heyck |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2015-09 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1421417103 |
In the years after World War II, a new generation of scholars redefined the central concepts and practices of social science in America. Before the Second World War, social scientists struggled to define and defend their disciplines. After the war, “high modern” social scientists harnessed new resources in a quest to create a unified understanding of human behavior—and to remake the world in the image of their new model man. In Age of System, Hunter Heyck explains why social scientists—shaped by encounters with the ongoing “organizational revolution” and its revolutionary technologies of communication and control—embraced a new and extremely influential perspective on science and nature, one that conceived of all things in terms of system, structure, function, organization, and process. He also explores how this emerging unified theory of human behavior implied a troubling similarity between humans and machines, with freighted implications for individual liberty and self-direction. These social scientists trained a generation of decision-makers in schools of business and public administration, wrote the basic textbooks from which millions learned how the economy, society, polity, culture, and even the mind worked, and drafted the position papers, books, and articles that helped set the terms of public discourse in a new era of mass media, think tanks, and issue networks. Drawing on close readings of key texts and a broad survey of more than 1,800 journal articles, Heyck follows the dollars—and the dreams—of a generation of scholars that believed in “the system.” He maps the broad landscape of changes in the social sciences, focusing especially intently on the ideas and practices associated with modernization theory, rational choice theory, and modeling. A highly accomplished historian, Heyck relays this complicated story with unusual clarity.
Author | : George A. Kuchel |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 148 |
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ISBN | : 0359617212 |
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Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Social security |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Old age pensions |
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Author | : Matilda White Riley |
Publisher | : Russell Sage Foundation |
Total Pages | : 671 |
Release | : 1972-03-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1610446836 |
Represents the first integrated effort to deal with age as a crucial variable in the social system. Of special interest to sociologists for whom the sociology of age seems destined to become a special field.
Author | : OECD |
Publisher | : OECD Publishing |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2009-10-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9264063455 |
This third edition of Pensions at a Glance updates in-depth information on the key features of mandatory pension systems—both public and private—in the 30 OECD countries, including projections of retirement income for today’s workers.
Author | : Robert Julius Myers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Social security |
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Author | : Martha Shirk |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2006-08-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0786722029 |
Each year, as many as 25,000 teenagers "age out" of foster care, usually when they turn eighteen. For years, a government agency had made every important decision for them. Suddenly, they are on their own, with no one to count on. What does it mean to be eighteen and on your own, without the family support and personal connections that most young people rely on? For many youth raised in foster care, it means largely unhappy endings, including sudden homelessness, unemployment, dead-end jobs, loneliness, and despair. On Their Own tells the compelling stories of ten young people whose lives are full of promise, but who face economic and social barriers stemming from the disruptions of foster care. This book calls for action to provide youth in foster care the same opportunities on the road to adulthood that most of our youth take for granted-access to higher education, vocational training, medical care, housing, and relationships within their communities. On Their Own is meant to serve as a clarion call not only to policymakers, but to all Americans who care about the futures of our young people.
Author | : David L. Nelms |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Aquifers |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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