Cold War Social Science: Knowledge Production, Liberal Democracy, and Human Nature

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Cold War Social Science: Specter, Reality, or Useful Concept?....Pages 1-22
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
The Rise and Fall of Wartime Social Science: Harvard’s Refugee Interview Project, 1950–1954....Pages 25-43
Futures Studies: A New Social Science Rooted in Cold War Strategic Thinking....Pages 45-62
“It Was All Connected”: Computers and Linguistics in Early Cold War America....Pages 63-78
Epistemic Design: Theory and Data in Harvard’s Department of Social Relations....Pages 79-95
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
Producing Reason....Pages 99-116
Column Right, March! Nationalism, Scientific Positivism, and the Conservative Turn of the American Social Sciences in the Cold War Era....Pages 117-135
From Expert Democracy to Beltway Banditry: How the Antiwar Movement Expanded the Military-Academic-Industrial Complex....Pages 137-153
Neo-Evolutionist Anthropology, the Cold War, and the Beginnings of the World Turn in U.S. Scholarship....Pages 155-172
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
Maintaining Humans....Pages 175-195
Psychology, Psychologists, and the Creativity Movement: The Lives of Method Inside and Outside the Cold War....Pages 197-214
An Anthropologist on TV: Ashley Montagu and the Biological Basis of Human Nature, 1945–1960....Pages 215-232
Cold War Emotions: Mother Love and the War over Human Nature....Pages 233-249
Back Matter....Pages 251-270