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Age of System: Understanding the Development of Modern Social Science

By Hunter Heyck
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By Hunter Heyck
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In the years after World War II, a new generation of scholars redefined the central concepts and practices of social science in America.

Before the Second World War, social scientists struggled to define and defend their disciplines. After the war, “high modern” social scientists harnessed new resources in a quest to create a unified understanding of human behavior—and to remake the world in the image of their new model man.

In Age of System, Hunter Heyck explains why social scientists—shaped...

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