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Knowledge for What: The Place of Social Science in American Culture: 1319 (Princeton Legacy Library) - Hardcover

Lynd, Robert Staughton

 
9780691648088: Knowledge for What: The Place of Social Science in American Culture: 1319 (Princeton Legacy Library)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0691648085 ISBN 13: 9780691648088
Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Contents: Foreword ix; I. Social Science in Crisis 1; II. The Concept of "Culture" 11; III. The Pattern of American Culture 54; IV. The Social Sciences as Tools 114; V. Values and the Social Sciences 180; VI. Some Outrageous Hypotheses 202; Index 251

Originally published in 1939.

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About the Author

Lynd was Professor of Sociology at Columbia University.

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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0691648085
ISBN 13 
9780691648088
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
280