Toward a history of social science publishing in the United States

1991 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-67
Author(s):  
Irving Louis Horowitz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Science ◽  
The United States ◽  
History Of Social Science ◽  
History Of

Intervention Research

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haluk Soydan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
The United States ◽  
Intervention Research ◽  
Generic Model ◽  
Social Programs ◽  
Optimistic Picture ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S

This entry regards intervention research as an essential part of social work as a profession and research discipline. A brief history of intervention research reveals that use of intervention research for the betterment of human conditions is contemporary with the genesis of modern social science. Advances in intervention research are attributed to the comprehensive social programs launched during the 1960s in the United States. A contemporary and generic model of intervention research is described. It is argued that it is ethical to use intervention research and unethical not to use it. Assessment of some of the recent advances in policy making and science gives an optimistic picture of the future of intervention research.

Richard A. Musgrave and Ludwig von Mises: Two Cases of Emigrè Economists in America

2005 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 443-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence S. Moss
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Science ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Social ◽  
War Machine ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
History Of ◽  
National Socialists ◽  
Von Mises

The expulsion of the academicians from Germany, Austria, and other central European countries is for the history of social science as traumatic and significant an event as the bombing of Pearl Harbor was for the United States' naval fleet in the South Pacific. The Restoration of the Civil Service Act occurred on April 7, 1933, shortly after the National Socialists came to power. It ordered “disagreeable” persons to leave the Universities and was the harbinger of other “cleansing” that followed the German war machine into Austria, the Czech Republic, and so on. The start of this intellectual exodus occurred a whole eight years before the United States entered the war on December 7, 1941. The destruction of the American naval fleet by the Japanese air force in 1941 required a massive State-sponsored mobilization as the United States prepared for and entered the war in the Pacific. The destruction of social science in the German-speaking Universities started on April 7, 1933, and continued as the German armies moved eastward, resulting in no less than 328 dislocated economists who emigrated out of central and eastern Europe to rebuild their lives and academic reputations in other places, especially in the United States. As Hagemann has demonstrated, the United States “was the direct or indirect destination for some two-thirds of the German-speaking emigré economists” (Hagemann 2005). This “rebuilding” of lives, families, and scientific reputations is amazing in its magnitude and complexity and is also itself a topic for serious study and understanding within the sociology of the social sciences. Hagemann has made major contributions to the telling of this story (Hagemann 1997).

An Updated History of the National Association of Forensic Economics: 2002–2014

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
James D. Rodgers ◽  
Marc A. Weinstein
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Science ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Association ◽  
Active Group ◽  
Forensic Economics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Science Association ◽  
Social Science Association

Abstract The National Association of Forensic Economics (NAFE) has approximately 650 members across the United States and in other countries. While the association has been an active group at the annual meetings of the Allied Social Science Association (ASSA) and at other regional meetings of economists, the growth of NAFE in terms of longevity and finances has allowed the organization to develop a more professional presence for its academic and practitioner members. This paper will update the original history of NAFE authored by Michael L. Brookshire in the Litigation Economics Review in 2003 which covered the period from NAFE's inception in 1986 through 2001.

“Old” Economic History in the United States: 1939–1954

2004 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristel de Rouvray
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Scientific Revolution ◽  
The United States ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The 1960S

This paper investigates the actions of a small, yet influential group of American economists who sought to claim economic history for themselves and use it as a springboard to launch a wider transformation of economics. Their actions constitute an episode of dissent in the history of twentieth century economics, albeit an unusual one. These dissenters were not a socially or intellectually marginalized group, but rather a set of privileged scholars who were able to leverage their contacts within the profession and amongst its patrons to further their vision. Their actions could almost be described in Kuhnian terms: they consciously sought to trigger a “paradigm shift” to bring about a social science better suited, in their views, to a world in political and economic turmoil (Kuhn 1962). In spite of the Kuhnian allusion to “scientific revolution,” this paper is not about the 1960s “cliometric revolution,” but about the 1940s and '50s and the little known events that led to the creation of the Economic History Association, the Journal of Economic History, and Explorations in Entrepreneurial History (subsequently Explorations in Economic History).

Social utopias in American literture

1938 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 287-300
Author(s):  
J. F. Normano
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Science ◽  
American History ◽  
The United States ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Political Theories ◽  
History Of

An interest in the history of ideas has never been popular in the United States; the modern student finds a tabula rasa in all fields of social science. The late Vernon L. Parrington complained of “the present lack of exact knowledge in connection with the history of American letters”). Charles E. Merriam observed that the “development of American political theories has received surprisingly little attention from students of American history”); and the history of economic ideas in America may be similarly described:—it does not yet exist.

Research as a Public Enterprise: Social Science Data on Ageing in the Public Domain

1997 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
GEORGE L. MADDOX
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Research Training ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Enterprise ◽  
Science Data ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
Social Science Data

A revolution is occurring in information exchange among gerontologists worldwide. For research investigators the increasingly easy accessibility of public use datasets promises to facilitate both research training and useful exchange of evidence. A brief history of the development of public use datasets for research in ageing is provided, and datasets of particular interest are described. While the illustrations focus on experience in the United States the implications of these developments for training and communication among gerontologists worldwide are noted.

scholarly journals The Politics of Vaccine Hesitancy in the United States

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Cao ◽  
Christina Ramirez ◽  
R. Michael Alvarez
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Clinical Trial Data ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vaccine Hesitancy ◽  
Logistic Regression Models ◽  
College Degrees ◽  
Baseline Information ◽  
History Of ◽  
Registered Voters

AbstractObjectiveWhy are Americans COVID-19 vaccine hesitant? We test social science hypotheses for vaccine hesitancy, focusing on partisanship, trust in institutions, and social-demographic characteristics of registered voters.MethodsWe use survey data from a representative sample of American registered voters collected in November 2020 to study vaccine hesitancy, and the reasons for vaccine hesitancy, at a point in time before the vaccine was available and hence show underlying responses based on beliefs and not on clinical trial data. We use multivariate logistic regression models to test hypotheses on vaccine hesitancy.ResultsWe find that consistently similar groups of people tend to be vaccine hesitant. Specifically, Black voters, those between the ages of 45 and 64, female voters, voters without college degrees, voters not worried about the spread of COVID-19, and voters who are concerned about government and the CDC’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, were vaccine hesitant. We also provide intriguing results showing the nuanced reasons that the vaccine hesitant provide.ConclusionsOur analysis allows us to establish important baseline information from a social science perspective on vaccine hesitancy at a crucial time, right before COVID-19 vaccines were beginning to be made available to adult Americans. What emerges from our analysis is a nuanced perspective on vaccine hesitancy in the United States, from this important point in the history of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Some Recent Thinking on Slavery in Islamic Africa and the Middle East

1993 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-162
Author(s):  
John Edward Philips
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Science ◽  
The United States ◽  
Western World ◽  
Chattel Slavery ◽  
Plantation Slavery ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Social Disabilities

Slavery and its effects will probably long remain among the most contentious of topics. Outlawed universally only recently, the institution is one of humanity’s oldest and most widespread forms of domination. It still exists, despite laws to the contrary, in some societies around the world. Social disabilities suffered by former slaves and their descendants are important legacies. And the lessons which the history of slavery can teach us have still not been fully elucidated or absorbed. It thus remains a topic of importance to teachers and researchers in every branch of humanities and social science.The literature on slavery has been dominated by the study of plantation slavery in the Western world, especially the Caribbean, Brazil and the United States. Studies of slavery in other areas and times have often been colored by biases and preconceptions based on American chattel slavery. Even when the intent of a scholar has been to contrast slavery in other societies with that in the Americas, the questions posed and the methods used have too often been shaped by the questions and methods of scholars working in the Americas. This has vitiated attempts at comparison.

Someday, Now

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miranda R. Waggoner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Child Health ◽  
Social Science ◽  
The United States ◽  
Care Model ◽  
Pregnancy Care ◽  
Cultural Ideals ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultural Visibility ◽  
And Child Health

This chapter introduces the contemporary medical and cultural visibility of the pre-pregnancy care model and details what the zero trimester includes. It covers the evidence and assumptions undergirding the pre-pregnancy care model and explains why the model has invited variable interpretations of its potential consequences for women’s reproductive autonomy and for maternal and child health. The rise of pre-pregnancy care is also discussed in relation to the history of prenatal care in the United States. Finally, key social science perspectives on medicine, motherhood, and reproduction are reviewed, setting up the argument that, with the rise of the zero trimester, medical and cultural ideals of womanhood and motherhood are increasingly intertwined.

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