Advocacy and Objectivity - 9781412814522

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Advocacy and ObjectivityA Crisis in the Professionalization of American Social Science, 1865-1905\nAuthor(s): Mary Furner\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc, United States\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781412814522, 978-1412814522\nSynopsis\nThis award-winning book of the Frederick Jackson Turner Studies describes the early development of social science professions in the United States. Furner traces the academic process in economics, sociology, and political science. She devotes considerable attention to economics in the 1880s, when first-generation professionals wrestled with the enormously difficult social questions associated with industrialization. Controversies among economists reflected an endemic tension in social science between the necessity of being recognized as objective scientists and an intense desire to advocate reforms.\n\nMolded by internal conflicts and external pressures, social science gradually changed. In the 1890s economics was defined mo.