Book ID: CBB000830732

Searchers, Seers, and Shakers: Masters of Social Science (2007)

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Schellenberg, James A. (Author)


Transaction Publishers


Publication Date: 2007
Physical Details: viii + 178 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Intellectual portraits of 11 people: Louis Leakey, Mary Leakey, Margaret Mead, B. F. Skinner, John Dewey, Talcott Parsons, Kenneth Boulding, Gunnar Myrdal, Alva Myrdal, C. Wright Mills, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan.


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Review Solovey, Mark (2007) Review of "Searchers, Seers, and Shakers: Masters of Social Science". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Tribe, Keith
Southern, David W.
Shook, John R.
Pyun, Tuk-Sang
Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey
O'Donohue, William T.
Journals
Science in Context
History Teacher
History of European Ideas
History and Anthropology
Ethnic and Racial Studies
Behaviorology
Publishers
Ohio University
University of Massachusetts Press
University of California Press
Thoemmes Press
Simon & Schuster
Sage Publications
Concepts
Social sciences
Biographies
Social relations; social groups
African races
Sociology
Psychology
People
Skinner, Burrhus Frederic
Myrdal, Gunnar
Myrdal, Alva Reimer
Mead, Margaret
Leakey, Louis Seymore Bazett
Dewey, John
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
Places
United States
Americas
Africa
Institutions
Harvard University
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