Engineering Society

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

By: Benjamin Ziemann (Editor), Kerstin BrÃ¼ckweh (Editor)

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Hardcover | 13 November 2012 | Edition Number 1

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Since the late nineteenth century the human and the social sciences have had a profound impact on how Western societies have defined and attempted to solve social problems. Explaining crime by reference to abnormalities of the brain, using market-research techniques to modify political strategies, or employing therapeutic institutions to promote democratic citizenship -- these are just three examples of how the human and social sciences have been applied since 1880. Experts from many disciplines have occupied key positions in state and society, guided political decisions, and helped to establish new social institutions and practices. Their expertise has had to compete with other forms of knowledge and has been used by politicians and social actors for their own ends. Providing a transdisciplinary and comparative perspective, the essays in this volume address the tension between the claims to objectivity and the politicization of expert knowledge, examine the relationship between knowledge and power, and discuss long-term historical developments, thus transcending the political caesuras of twentieth-century history.

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List of Figures and Tables	p. vii
Notes on Contributors	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. xii
Introduction: The Scientization of the Social in Comparative Perspective	p. 1
Embedding the Human and Social Sciences in Western Societies, 1880-1980: Reflections on Trends and Methods of Current Research	p. 41
Social and Penal Policy
Contesting Risk: Specialist Knowledge and Workplace Accidents in Britain, Germany, and Italy, 1870-1920	p. 59
Politics Through the Back Door: Expert Knowledge in International Welfare Organizations	p. 79
Rationalizing the Individual - Engineering Society: The Case of Sweden	p. 97
The Neurosciences and Criminology: How New Experts Have Moved into Public Policy and Debate	p. 119
Diagnosis and Therapy
The Psychological Sciences and the 'Scientization' and 'Engineering' of Society in Twentieth-Century Britain	p. 141
Mental Health as Civic Virtue: Psychological Definitions of Citizenship in the Netherlands, 1900-1985	p. 159
Human Sciences, Child Reform, and Politics in Spain, 1890-1936	p. 179
Narcissism: Social Critique in Me-Decade America	p. 198
Polling, Marketing, and Organizations
Hearing the Masses: The Modern Science of Opinion in the United States	p. 215
Observing the Sovereign: Opinion Polls and the Restructuring of the Body Politic in West Germany, 1945-1990	p. 234
Consumers, Markets, and Research: The Role of Political Rhetoric and the Social Sciences in the Engineering of British and American Consumer Society, 1920-1960	p. 252
Business Organizations, Foundations, and the State as Promoters of Applied Social Sciences in the United States and Switzerland, 1890-1960	p. 273
Catholic Church Reform and Organizations Research in the Netherlands and Germany, 1945-1980	p. 293
Index	p. 313
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