TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fontaine,Philippe
AU  - Pooley,Jefferson D.
TI  - Society on the edge: social science and public policy in the postwar United States 
SN  - 9781108765961 (ebook)
AV  - HN57 .S6247 2021
U1  - 306.0973 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Social problems
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Social policy
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Dec 2020)
N2  - The social sciences underwent rapid development in postwar America. Problems once framed in social terms gradually became redefined as individual with regards to scope and remedy, with economics and psychology winning influence over the other social sciences. By the 1970s, both economics and psychology had spread their intellectual remits wide: psychology's concepts suffused everyday language, while economists entered a myriad of policy debates. Psychology and economics contributed to, and benefited from, a conception of society that was increasingly skeptical of social explanations and interventions. Sociology, in particular, lost intellectual and policy ground to its peers, even regarding 'social problems' that the discipline long considered its settled domain. The book's ten chapters explore this shift, each refracted through a single 'problem': the family, crime, urban concerns, education, discrimination, poverty, addiction, war, and mental health, examining the effects an increasingly individualized lens has had on the way we see these problems
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108765961
ER  -