Armed With Expertise: The Militarization Of American Social Research During The Cold War (American Institutions And Society)

In Armed with Expertise, Joy Rohde traces the optimistic rise, anguished fall, and surprising rebirth of Cold War-era military sponsored social research. As Rhde shows, by the late 1960s, a growing number of scholars and activists condemned Pentagon-funded social scientists as handmaidens of a technocratic warfare state and sought to eliminate military-sponsored research from American intellectual life. In examining the controversies over Cold War social science, Rohde reveals the persistent militarization of American political and intellectual life, a phenomenon that continues to raise grave questions about the relationship between expert knowledge and American democracy--from back cover.

• | Author: Joy Rohde
• | Publisher: Cornell University Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 15, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 224 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1501732641
• | ISBN-13: 9781501732645