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The Emergence of Professional Social Science: The American Social Science Association and the Nineteenth-Century Crisis of Authority

Gerard W. Gawalt, +1 more
- 24 Jan 1979 - 
- Vol. 9, Iss: 3, pp 575
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This article is published in Journal of Interdisciplinary History.The article was published on 1979-01-24. It has received 173 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social science education & Science education.

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In search of progressivism

TL;DR: For decades the notion that the political and intellectual ferment of the Roosevelt and Wilson years cohered into an entity called progressivism was one of the central organizing principles of American history was a matter of starkly divided opinion as mentioned in this paper.
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Technology, Political Economy, and Professionalization: Central Themes of the Organizational Synthesis

TL;DR: Galambos as discussed by the authors surveys the large number of books and articles, published since 1970, that together point toward a new "organizational synthesis" in American history, and contrasts the widely disparate postures adopted in recent years by historians studying organizational behavior.
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Institutional sources of intellectual poverty in communication research

TL;DR: The field of communication failed to define itself, its intellectual focus, and its mission in a coherent way as mentioned in this paper, focusing especially on the institutional use of the field's central terms and concepts.
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Laissez-Faire and Liberty: A Re-Evaluation of the Meaning and Origins Of Laissez-Faire Constitutionalism

TL;DR: The intellectual foundations of laissez-faire constitutionalism have been so alien to most legal scholars since the 1930s and equally unintelligible to many even earlier that they have found it difficult to believe these decisions were the result of efforts to enforce neutral principles of constitutional law, to utilize the terms of Herbert Wechsler's famous analysis.
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