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2011 ◽  
Vol 116 (5) ◽  
pp. 1468-1469
Author(s):  
Russell Olwell
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Second World War ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
World War ◽  
International Networks ◽  
Second World ◽  
University Of Chicago Press

Vichy Specificities: Repositioning the French Past

2000 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 475-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. H. Adler
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Second World War ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
World War ◽  
Popular Protest ◽  
Northern France ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
Second World ◽  
University Of Chicago Press

Michèle and Jean-Paul Cointet, eds., Dictionnaire historique de la France sous l'Occupation (Paris: Tallandier, 2000), 732pp., FF 290, ISBN 2-235-02234-0. Hanna Diamond, Women and the Second World War in France 1939–1948: Choices and Constraints (Harlow: Longman, 1999), 231pp., £45.00 (hb), £14.99 (pb), ISBN 0-582-29909-8. Sarah Fishman, Laura Lee Downs, Ioannis Sinanoglou, Leonard V. Smith, Robert Zaretsky, eds., France at War: Vichy and the Historians (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2000), 336pp., £45.00, ISBN 1-859-73299-2. Bertram M. Gordon, ed., Historical Dictionary of World War II France: The Occupation, Vichy, and the Resistance, 1938–1946 (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1998), 433pp., £73.95, ISBN 0-313-29421-6. Miranda Pollard, Reign of Virtue: Mobilizing Gender in Vichy France (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1998), 285pp., £31.50 (hb), £14.00 (pb), ISBN 0-226-67349-9 and 0-226-67350-2. Lynne Taylor, Between Resistance and Collaboration: Popular Protest in Northern France, 1940–45 (Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000), 195pp., £40.00, ISBN 0-333-73640-0.

Philosophy as Social Philosophy

Philosophy ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 42 (159) ◽  
pp. 37-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Haines
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Philosopher ◽  
Moral Attitudes ◽  
Second World

Just before the second world war, in a paper read to the British Association, Morris Ginsberg talked about the failure of social philosophy and the social sciences to work together in the universities ‘toward the rational ordering of society’. Some time after the war Alexander Macbeath complained to British sociologists of his own vain search for a social philosopher who could teach in a course on public administration. Then a few years later A. E. Teale told an inter-professional conference at Keele that people who teach and train teachers, those who train social workers of all kinds, were disappointed when philosophers professed themselves unable to help those who had to ‘equip students with the skill to change prevailing moral attitudes and standards’.

scholarly journals Why the social sciences should be based in evolutionary theory: the example of geoeconomics and intelligence studies

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Solberg Söilen
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Evolutionary Theory ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
The Social ◽  
Intelligence Studies ◽  
Second World ◽  
Current Paradigm

This article gathers arguments for why the social sciences should be based inevolutionary theory by showing the shortcomings of the current paradigm based on the study of physics. Two examples are used, the study of intelligence studies and geoeconomics. After a presentation of the geoeconomics literature and an explanation of what the organic view of the social sciences is, we follow the study of economics as it developed after the Second World War to see where it went wrong and why.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Erika Lorraine Milam
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Evolutionary Perspective ◽  
Human Lineage ◽  
World War ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Historical Trajectory ◽  
Second World

This introductory chapter offers a quick glimpse into the historical milieu during which this volume is set. Between the Second World War and the 1970s, this chapter shows that scientists from a wide range of disciplines crafted a historical trajectory for humanity that was self-consciously anti-eugenic. The best of humanity had not degenerated from living in the artificial constructs of civilization, would not dissolve because of the overbreeding of the lower classes, and could not be corrupted through miscegenation. Instead, these evolutionists argued that our common past provided evidence of our continued remarkable success as a species. In essence, so these scientists reasoned, our present human nature resulted from the synergy of biology and culture, both in dynamic flux throughout our development as a species. We had become the most recent manifestation of a human lineage destined for even greater things in the future. Through their work, an evolutionary perspective wended its way into each discipline perched at the intersection of the natural and social sciences.

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