Journal of The History of The Behavioral Sciences, 2001
... Set in Baskerville using Ventura Publisher under Windows 95 by Wellington Graphics ... We wis... more ... Set in Baskerville using Ventura Publisher under Windows 95 by Wellington Graphics ... We wish to thank Giinter Schroder, Iris Boschen, Friederike Botzen-hardt, and Doris "Dojo" Oelerich, who assisted our work at different stageswith Dojo at times doing more than the required ...
Intended Consequences: Birth Control Abortion and the Federal Government. Intended Consequences B... more Intended Consequences: Birth Control Abortion and the Federal Government. Intended Consequences Birth Control Abortion And The Federal. Intended Consequences Birth Control Abortion and the Federal. Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal. In Intended Consequences, Donald T. Critchlow deftly chronicles how the government s involvement in contraception and abortion evolved into one of the most Zelizer on Critchlow, Intended Consequences: Birth Control .-H-Net Intended Consequences Birth Control Abortion And The Federal. Unintended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal Government in Modern America. by Donald T. Critchlow (New York and Oxford: Oxford Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal. intended consequences birth control abortion and the federal government in modern america. Reading Book Easy. Reading ID 40898a. Reading Book Easy. birth control, abortion, and the federal government in
Paul Erickson’s fascinating history of game theory begins by describing its subject matter not as... more Paul Erickson’s fascinating history of game theory begins by describing its subject matter not as an idea, paradigm, institution, nor even as a ‘theory,’ but as a “great sequence of debates … about the prospects for building a mathematical theory of rational decision-making.” (1) This series of debates is given coherence, both in the minds of the historical actors and in the construction of this book, by the mathematical tradition associated with “rational choice modeling,” a tradition that u...
Before the Second World War, social scientists struggled to define and defend their disciplines. ... more 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 by encounters with the ongoing "organizational revolution" and its revolutionary technologies of communication and control?embraced a new and extremely influential perspective on science and nature, one that conceived of all things in terms of system, structure, function, organization, and process. He also explores how this emerging unified theory of human behavior implied a troubling similarity between humans and machines, with freighted implications for individual liberty and self-direction. These social scientists trained a generation of decision-makers in schools of business and public administration, wrote the basic textbooks from which millions learned how the economy, society, polity, culture, and even the mind worked, and drafted the position papers, books, and articles that helped set the terms of public discourse in a new era of mass media, think tanks, and issue networks. Drawing on close readings of key texts and a broad survey of more than 1,800 journal articles, Heyck follows the dollars?and the dreams?of a generation of scholars that believed in "the system." He maps the broad landscape of changes in the social sciences, focusing especially intently on the ideas and practices associated with modernization theory, rational choice theory, and modeling. A highly accomplished historian, Heyck relays this complicated story with unusual clarity.
This essay argues that a new way of understanding science and nature emerged and flourished in th... more This essay argues that a new way of understanding science and nature emerged and flourished in the human sciences in America between roughly 1920 and 1970. This new outlook was characterized by the prefiguration of all subjects of study as systems defined by their structures, not their components. Further, the essay argues that the rise of this new outlook was closely linked to the Organizational Revolution in American society, which provided new sets of problems, new patrons, and new control technologies as “tools to think with” for researchers in this period. As examples of this new way of thinking and of the multidirectional traffic connecting control technologies, the Organizational Revolution, and the social sciences, the essay looks at Chester Barnard and his book The Functions of the Executive, at Warren Weaver and his essays on communication theory and on science and “organized complexity,” and at the works of J. C. R. Licklider and Robert Taylor on human/computer symbiosis through computer-based communications.
Journal of The History of The Behavioral Sciences, 2001
... Set in Baskerville using Ventura Publisher under Windows 95 by Wellington Graphics ... We wis... more ... Set in Baskerville using Ventura Publisher under Windows 95 by Wellington Graphics ... We wish to thank Giinter Schroder, Iris Boschen, Friederike Botzen-hardt, and Doris "Dojo" Oelerich, who assisted our work at different stageswith Dojo at times doing more than the required ...
Intended Consequences: Birth Control Abortion and the Federal Government. Intended Consequences B... more Intended Consequences: Birth Control Abortion and the Federal Government. Intended Consequences Birth Control Abortion And The Federal. Intended Consequences Birth Control Abortion and the Federal. Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal. In Intended Consequences, Donald T. Critchlow deftly chronicles how the government s involvement in contraception and abortion evolved into one of the most Zelizer on Critchlow, Intended Consequences: Birth Control .-H-Net Intended Consequences Birth Control Abortion And The Federal. Unintended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal Government in Modern America. by Donald T. Critchlow (New York and Oxford: Oxford Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal. intended consequences birth control abortion and the federal government in modern america. Reading Book Easy. Reading ID 40898a. Reading Book Easy. birth control, abortion, and the federal government in
Paul Erickson’s fascinating history of game theory begins by describing its subject matter not as... more Paul Erickson’s fascinating history of game theory begins by describing its subject matter not as an idea, paradigm, institution, nor even as a ‘theory,’ but as a “great sequence of debates … about the prospects for building a mathematical theory of rational decision-making.” (1) This series of debates is given coherence, both in the minds of the historical actors and in the construction of this book, by the mathematical tradition associated with “rational choice modeling,” a tradition that u...
Before the Second World War, social scientists struggled to define and defend their disciplines. ... more 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 by encounters with the ongoing "organizational revolution" and its revolutionary technologies of communication and control?embraced a new and extremely influential perspective on science and nature, one that conceived of all things in terms of system, structure, function, organization, and process. He also explores how this emerging unified theory of human behavior implied a troubling similarity between humans and machines, with freighted implications for individual liberty and self-direction. These social scientists trained a generation of decision-makers in schools of business and public administration, wrote the basic textbooks from which millions learned how the economy, society, polity, culture, and even the mind worked, and drafted the position papers, books, and articles that helped set the terms of public discourse in a new era of mass media, think tanks, and issue networks. Drawing on close readings of key texts and a broad survey of more than 1,800 journal articles, Heyck follows the dollars?and the dreams?of a generation of scholars that believed in "the system." He maps the broad landscape of changes in the social sciences, focusing especially intently on the ideas and practices associated with modernization theory, rational choice theory, and modeling. A highly accomplished historian, Heyck relays this complicated story with unusual clarity.
This essay argues that a new way of understanding science and nature emerged and flourished in th... more This essay argues that a new way of understanding science and nature emerged and flourished in the human sciences in America between roughly 1920 and 1970. This new outlook was characterized by the prefiguration of all subjects of study as systems defined by their structures, not their components. Further, the essay argues that the rise of this new outlook was closely linked to the Organizational Revolution in American society, which provided new sets of problems, new patrons, and new control technologies as “tools to think with” for researchers in this period. As examples of this new way of thinking and of the multidirectional traffic connecting control technologies, the Organizational Revolution, and the social sciences, the essay looks at Chester Barnard and his book The Functions of the Executive, at Warren Weaver and his essays on communication theory and on science and “organized complexity,” and at the works of J. C. R. Licklider and Robert Taylor on human/computer symbiosis through computer-based communications.
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