Description: David Paul Haney outlines the development of sociology as a discipline and why, given its focus of study, it failed to develop into a force in the intellectual currents of the United States.
Review Quotes:
"The Americanization of Social Science is written so beautifully, so engagingly, and Haney is so widely read in the sociology and context of the 1950s, that this is both a wonderful social history of the discipline and, at the same time, an astute sociological analysis of the field's consolidation....This [book] is sure to further stimulate the debate about public sociology."-- Michael Burawoy, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley