Knowledge for What: The Place of Social Science in American Culture (Princeton Legacy Library, 1319) - Softcover

Lynd, Robert Staughton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691028117 ISBN 13: 9780691028118

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1970

Synopsis

Contents: Foreword ix; I. Social Science in Crisis 1; II. The Concept of "Culture" 11; III. The Pattern of American Culture 54; IV. The Social Sciences as Tools 114; V. Values and the Social Sciences 180; VI. Some Outrageous Hypotheses 202; Index 251

Originally published in 1939.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1970
• ISBN 10: 0691028117
• ISBN 13: 9780691028118
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280