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Conspicuous Criticism - Tradition, the Individual, and Culture In Modern American Social Thought, Revised Edition (Paperback, Rev Ed)
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Conspicuous Criticism - Tradition, the Individual, and Culture In Modern American Social Thought, Revised Edition (Paperback, Rev Ed)
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In Conspicuous Criticism, historian Christopher Shannon argues that
the social-scientific critique of American culture, whether liberal
or radical, can only reproduce the social relations of bourgeois
individualism. He analyzes in depth key works of scholars such as
Thorsten Veblen, Robert and Helen Lynd (of Middletown fame), Ruth
Benedict, John Dewey, and C. Wright Mills, among others, to
demonstrate how American middle-class ideas of progress,
individualism, and rationalism became embedded in their critique.
These works embody an ideal of reason free from tradition which
unites capitalism and its social-scientific critique. The critical
attempt to detach oneself from society so as to study it
objectively only reinforced the ideal of objective social relations
at the heart of the market society itself. Shannon argues that most
historical writing on American social sciences has focused on the
ways in which intellectuals have used social science to advance
particular political agendas. This political focus, he argues, has
forced the story of American social science into a narrative of
reform and reaction that is incapable of seriously addressing the
larger issue of the rational control of society. Shannon concludes
that social science research of this sort has perpetuated values of
individualism and capitalism which may hinder contemporary
America's need to address serious social, economic, and political
problems. A thoughtful and provocative alternative history,
Conspicuous Criticism will interest scholars in American
intellectual history, American studies, and social thought.
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