Knowledge for What: The Place of Social Science in American Culture

Robert Staughton Lynd

Published by Princeton University Press 1939

Knowledge for What

The Place of Social Science in American Culture

Robert Staughton Lynd

Volume 1319 in the series Princeton Legacy Library

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400872282

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Contents: Foreword ix; I. Social Science in Crisis 1; II. The Concept of "Culture" 11; III. The Pattern of American Culture 54; IV. The Social Sciences as Tools 114; V. Values and the Social Sciences 180; VI. Some Outrageous Hypotheses 202; Index 251

Originally published in 1939.

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