Engineering Society: The Role of the Human and Social Sciences in Modern Societies, 1880-1980 - Softcover

Brückweh, Kerstin; Wetzell, Richard F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1349326801 ISBN 13: 9781349326808

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

Synopsis

Explaining crime by reference to abnormalities of the brain is just one example of how the human and social sciences have influenced the approach to social problems in Western societies since 1880. Focusing on applications such as penal policy, therapy, and marketing, this volume examines how these sciences have become embedded in society.

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Book Description:

This collection of essays examine the history of the applied social sciences between 1880 and 1980 in comparative perspective

About the Author:

PETER BECKER Professor of History at the University of Vienna, Austria CHRIS DOLS Cultural Historian, who works and junior-researcher at the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands THOMAS ETZEMÜLLER Adjunct Professor in Modern History at the University of Oldenburg, Germany SARAH E. IGO Associate Professor of History, Political Science, and Sociology at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, US TILL KÖSSLER Professor for the History of Education, Childhood and Youth at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany ANJA KRUKE Head of Department of the Archiv der sozialen Demokratie at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Bonn, Germany MARTIN LENGWILER Professor of Modern History at the University of Basel, Switzerland ELIZABETH LUNBECK Nelson Tyrone, Jr. Professor of History, and Professor of Psychiatry, at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, US JULIA MOSES Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Sheffield, UK HARRY OOSTERHUIS Lecturer at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Maastricht University and he is affiliated with the Huizinga Research School for Cultural History, Amsterdam LUTZ RAPHAEL Professor for Contemporary History at the University of Trier, Germany STEFAN SCHWARZKOPF Associate Professor in Business History at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark MATHEW THOMSON Reader in the Department of History at the University of Warwick, UK EMIL WALTER-BUSCH Senior Lecturer Emeritus of Applied Social Research and Social Psychology at the Universities of St.Gall and Zurich, Switzerland.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1349326801
• ISBN 13: 9781349326808
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 330
• Editor: Schumann D., Ziemann B.