'The American Soldier' in Jerusalem: How Social Science and Social Scientists Travel
[Thesis]
Tal Arbel
Harrington, Anne
Harvard University
2016
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Committee members: Lemov, Rebecca; Owen, Roger; Shapin, Steven
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-02995-6
Ph.D.
History of Science
Harvard University
2016
The dissertation asks how social science and its tools-especially those associated with the precise measurement of attitudes, motivations and preferences-became a pervasive way of knowing about and ordering the world, as well as the ultimate marker of political modernity, in the second half of the twentieth century.
Science history; Military studies; Film studies
Social sciences;Communication and the arts;Attitude measurement;British mandate;Cold War;Credibility;Cultural transfer;Epistemic values;Guttman scaling;Haganah;Israel institute of applied social research;Louis guttman