Sociology and Scientism: The American Quest for Objectivity, 1880-1940UNC Press Books, 1987 - 312 pages During the 1920s a new generation of American sociologists tried to make their discipline more objective by adopting the methodology of the natural sciences. Robert Bannister provides the first comprehensive account of the emergence of this "objectivism" |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
An Ambiguous Legacy | 13 |
The Social Organism | 32 |
From Telos to Technique | 47 |
First Principles | 64 |
Pluralistic Behaviorism | 75 |
Up from Metaphysics | 87 |
The Authority of Fact | 98 |
A Better Code | 161 |
A Pile of Knowledge | 173 |
Rehearsal for Rebellion | 188 |
Democracy | 200 |
Defeat | 215 |
Conclusion | 231 |
Notes | 239 |
Bibliography | 273 |
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