Engineering Society

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Scientization of the Social in Comparative Perspective

Chapter 2 Embedding the Human and Social Sciences in Western Societies, 1880–1980: Reflections on Trends and Methods of Current Research

Chapter 3 Contesting Risk: Specialist Knowledge and Workplace Accidents in Britain, Germany, and Italy, 1870–1920

Chapter 4 Politics Through the Back Door: Expert Knowledge in International Welfare Organizations

Chapter 5 Rationalizing the Individual – Engineering Society: The Case of Sweden

Chapter 6 The Neurosciences and Criminology: How New Experts Have Moved into Public Policy and Debate

Chapter 7 The Psychological Sciences and the ‘Scientization’ and ‘Engineering’ of Society in Twentieth-Century Britain

Chapter 8 Mental Health as Civic Virtue: Psychological Definitions of Citizenship in the Netherlands, 1900–1985

Chapter 9 Human Sciences, Child Reform, and Politics in Spain, 1890–1936

Chapter 10 Narcissism: Social Critique in Me-Decade America

Chapter 11 Hearing the Masses: The Modern Science of Opinion in the United States

Chapter 12 Observing the Sovereign: Opinion Polls and the Restructuring of the Body Politic in West Germany, 1945–1990

Chapter 13 Consumers, Markets, and Research: The Role of Political Rhetoric and the Social Sciences in the Engineering of British and American Consumer Society, 1920–1960

Chapter 14 Business Organizations, Foundations, and the State as Promoters of Applied Social Sciences in the United States and Switzerland, 1890–1960

Chapter 15 Catholic Church Reform and Organizations Research in the Netherlands and Germany, 1945–1980