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Author Fleck, Christian, 1954-

Title A transatlantic history of the social sciences : robber barons, the Third Reich and the invention of empirical social research / Christian Fleck ; translated from the German by Hella Beister
Published London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (x, 406 pages) : illustrations
Contents The Building of an American Empire -- Fellowships and What They Entailed -- Institutional Support in Europe -- In the Shadow of Nazi Rule: Two Generation Units of Social Scientists -- The Radio, Adorno and the Panel -- The History of an Appropriation -- Reconnaissance Expeditions, Reconstruction Support and the Rare Return -- Red Threads
Summary "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 analyses the contribution of German refugee social scientists to its establishment. The major names are here, from Adorno and Horkheimer to Hirshman and Lazarsfeld, but at the heart of the book is a unique collective biography based on original data from more than 800 German-speaking social scientists. Published in German in 2008 to great acclaim, Fleck's important study of the transatlantic enrichment of the social sciences is now available in a revised English-language edition."--Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 358-383) and index
Notes English
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Subject Social sciences -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Social sciences -- Research -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Germans -- United States -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Methodology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Research.
Emigration and immigration
Germans
Social sciences -- Research
SUBJECT United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century
Germany -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century
Subject Europe
Germany
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Beister, Hella
ISBN 9781849664332
1849664331
9781849660501
1849660506
9781849662932
1849662932
1283195038
9781283195034
9786613195036
6613195030
Other Titles Transatlantische Bereicherungen. English