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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.
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.
Winner of the 2017 James W. Carey Media Research Award James W.
Carey, by the time of his death in 2006, was a towering figure in
communication research in the U.S. In this book, Pooley provides a
critical introduction to Carey's work, tracing the evolution of his
media theorizing from his graduate school years through to the
publication in 1989, of his landmark Communication as Culture. The
book is an attempt to understand the unusual if also undeniable
significance that Carey holds for so many communication scholars,
as well as making his work accessible to advanced undergraduate and
postgraduate students.
Winner of the 2017 James W. Carey Media Research Award James W.
Carey, by the time of his death in 2006, was a towering figure in
communication research in the U.S. In this book, Pooley provides a
critical introduction to Carey's work, tracing the evolution of his
media theorizing from his graduate school years through to the
publication in 1989, of his landmark Communication as Culture. The
book is an attempt to understand the unusual if also undeniable
significance that Carey holds for so many communication scholars,
as well as making his work accessible to advanced undergraduate and
postgraduate students.
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