عنوان

Science, democracy, and the American university :

شابک

1107027268

شابک

9781107027268

شماره

dltt

عنوان اصلي

Science, democracy, and the American university :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

from the Civil War to the Cold War /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Andrew Jewett, Harvard University

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xii, 402 pages ;

ابعاد

25 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index

متن يادداشت

Introduction : relating science and democracy -- Founding hopes -- Internal divisions -- Science and philosophy -- Scientific citizenship -- The biology of culture -- The problem of cultural change -- Making scientific citizens -- Science and its contexts -- The problem of values -- Two cultures -- Accommodation -- Conclusion : science and democracy in a new century

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

"This book fundamentally reinterprets the rise of the natural and social sciences as sources of political authority in modern America. Andrew Jewett demonstrates the remarkable persistence of a belief that the scientific enterprise carried with it a set of ethical resources capable of grounding a democratic culture - a political function widely assigned to religion. The book traces the shifting formulations of this belief from the creation of the research universities in the Civil War era to the early Cold War, tracking hundreds of leading scholars who challenged technocratic modes of governance rooted in a strictly value-neutral image of science. Many of these figures favored a deliberative model of democracy, defined by a vigorous process of public deliberation rather than rationalized administration or interest-group bargaining. This vision generated surprisingly nuanced portraits of science in the years before the military-industrial complex"--

موضوع مستند نشده

Democracy and science-- United States

موضوع مستند نشده

Science and state-- United States

موضوع مستند نشده

Science-- United States-- History

موضوع مستند نشده

Social sciences-- United States-- History

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Jewett, Andrew,1970-

تاريخ عمليات

20160309111055.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

rda

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y