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Society on the Edge - Social Science and Public Policy in the Postwar United States (Paperback)
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Society on the Edge - Social Science and Public Policy in the Postwar United States (Paperback)
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The social sciences underwent rapid development in postwar America.
Problems once framed in social terms gradually became redefined as
individual with regards to scope and remedy, with economics and
psychology winning influence over the other social sciences. By the
1970s, both economics and psychology had spread their intellectual
remits wide: psychology's concepts suffused everyday language,
while economists entered a myriad of policy debates. Psychology and
economics contributed to, and benefited from, a conception of
society that was increasingly skeptical of social explanations and
interventions. Sociology, in particular, lost intellectual and
policy ground to its peers, even regarding 'social problems' that
the discipline long considered its settled domain. The book's ten
chapters explore this shift, each refracted through a single
'problem': the family, crime, urban concerns, education,
discrimination, poverty, addiction, war, and mental health,
examining the effects an increasingly individualized lens has had
on the way we see these problems.
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