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A 2-yr study, sponsored by the Comm on Cross-Cultural Educ of the SSRC, among 38 S's from Norway, Denmark & Sweden, presenting the S's perceptions of various major areas of American society. One of the impressions was that the interviewees all consider Americans rather immature in one respect or another, whether their general attitude toward America is favorable & tolerant, or impatient & antagonistic. They admire 'the warm friendliness & spontaneity of Americans, the informality of dress & address, & the quick acceptance of the stranger into the group & family'. They were critical of what appeared to be over-conformance in US life to the norms of the group or the organization. Students in US U's tend to be oversupervised, & the standards of educ did not impress them. They feel Americans are quite hypocritical about religion, & that churches are too 'money-oriented.' The S's, who considered themselves somewhat to the right of center politically on arrival in the US, indicated a considerable degree of concern that freedom was being curtailed in America. They failed to be impressed by US political behavior. By comparison with other foreign students, the Scandinavian visitors seem to adjust to the US with `remarkable ease'. (See SA 2685, 2734, 2735, 2737, 2738, 2742, 2744, 2745, 2748) P. Widem.

The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study: Adults As Parents And Children At Age 50

Applying an original theoretical framework, an international group of historians and social scientists here explores how class, rather than other social bonds, became central to the ideologies, dispositions, and actions of working people, and how this process was translated into diverse institutional legacies and political outcomes. Focusing principally on France. Germany, and the United States, the contributors examine the historically contingent connections between class, as objectively structured and experienced, and collective perceptions and responses as they develop in work, community, and politics. Following Ira Katznelson's introduction of the analytical concepts, William H. Sewell, Jr., Michelle Perrot, and Alain Cottereau discuss France; Amy Bridges and Martin Shefter, the United States; and Jargen Kocka and Mary Nolan, Germany. The conclusion by Aristide R. Zolberg comments on working-class formation up to World War I, including developments in Great Britain, and challenges conventional wisdom about class and politics in the industrializing West

Nothing has generated more controversy in the social sciences than the turn toward culture, variously known as the linguistic turn, culturalism, or postmodernism. This book examines the impact of the cultural turn on two prominent social science disciplines, history and sociology, and proposes new directions in the theory and practice of historical research

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION. School Building -- PART ONE Blurred Genres: Reflections on Disciplinary Practices -- CHAPTER 1 Political Theory after the Enlightenment Project -- CHAPTER 2 Twenty-five Years of Social Science and Social Change -- CHAPTER 3 Economic History as a Cure for Economics -- CHAPTER 4 Can the "Other" of Philosophy Speak? -- CHAPTER 5 Reflections on Interdisciplinarity -- PART TWO The State of the Art: New Methods and New Questions -- CHAPTER 6 After History? -- CHAPTER 7 The Global Situation -- CHAPTER 8 Modernity and Identity -- CHAPTER 9 The Role of Norms and Law in Economics: An Essay on Political Economy -- CHAPTER 10 Material Culture, Theoretical Culture, and Delocalization -- CHAPTER 11 Science as Alchemy -- PART THREE Thick Description: Field Overviews and Institutional History -- CHAPTER 12 Whatever Happened to the "Social" in Social History? -- CHAPTER 13 Postcolonialism and Its Discontents: History, Anthropology, and Postcolonial Critique -- CHAPTER 14 Structure, Contingency, and Choice: A Comparison of Trends and Tendencies in Political Science -- CHAPTER 15 Interdisciplinarity at New York University -- PART FOUR The World in Pieces: Political Philosophy and World Governance -- CHAPTER 16 Political Theory and Moral Responsibility -- CHAPTER 17 A "Moral Core" Solution to the Prisoners' Dilemma -- CHAPTER 18 Reinterpreting Risk -- CHAPTER 19 Retrotopia: Critical Reason Turns Primitive -- CHAPTER 20 International Society: What Is the Best that We Can Do? -- AUTHOR NOTES