Knowledge for What: The Place of Social Science in American Culture (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780691648088)

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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Author: Robert Staughton Lynd
ISBN-10: 0691648085
ISBN-13: 9780691648088
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/19/2016
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d