Ideology, Social Science, and Destiny: Modernization and the Kennedy-Era Alliance for Progress

Latham, Michael

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“…Like notions of gender, race, and poverty, conceptions of modernization, as Michael Latham and Nick Cullather were among the first to demonstrate, helped to structure the Weltanschauung of policymakers during the Cold War. 73 Modernization theory is particularly interesting because its historians have explored its resonance on all three levels of the cultural turn. Thus, 'modernization ' was not only a normative vocabulary for Cold War policymakers ; it was a cultural good that could be exported in the form of economic aid, technology, and expertise.…”

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The Human Sciences in Cold War America

Isaac

2007

Hist. J.

103

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The last fifteen years have witnessed an explosion of interest in the history of the Cold War. Historical attention has focused not only on the diplomatic and military aspects of the conflict, but also, increasingly, on its cultural, intellectual, and technological dimensions. One of the fruits of this widening of scope in Cold War studies is a burgeoning literature on the development of the post-Second World War American human sciences. Studies of the Cold War career of the human sciences, however, have often been inflected by moralistic, and sometimes tendentious, claims about the relationship between the state and the academy. This article seeks to explain the chief characteristics of the historiography of the human sciences in Cold War America by describing its formation in the interstices of three distinct lines of inquiry: the history of science, the cultural turn in Cold War studies, and the history of the birth of the human science professions in the United States. It argues that historians of the post-war American human sciences have absorbed some features of these literatures, whilst neglecting others that offer more nuanced perspectives on the relationship between scientific research and its patrons during the Cold War era. Moreover, it suggests that the best prospects for the future maturation of the field lie in the recovery of ‘middle-range contextualizations’ that link post-war trends in the human sciences to interwar and turn-of-the-century developments, thereby making the Cold War context less all-encompassing than it has sometimes appeared.

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The Human Sciences in Cold War America

Isaac

2007

Hist. J.

103

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“…Secondly, a growing number of former colonies including Latin America, India and Pakistan (Alger, 1972;Latham, 1998) were evaluating the ideological systems vying for their support in the Cold War context. There was no guarantee that former colonies would self-associate with US economic values and thus 'contain' the spread of Soviet influence (Grant, 1979).…”

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The discourses of marketing and development: towards ‘critical transformative marketing research’

Tadajewski

Chelekis

DeBerry‐Spence

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Journal of Marketing Management

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In order to understand the connection between development, marketing and transformative consumer research (TCR), with its attendant interest in promoting human well-being, this article begins by charting the links between US 'exceptionalism', 'Manifest Destiny' and modernisation theory, demonstrating the confluence of US perspectives and experiences in articulations and understandings of the contributions of marketing practice and consumer research to society. Our narrative subsequently engages with the rise of social marketing (1960s-) and finally TCR (2006-). We move beyond calls for an appreciation of paradigm plurality to encourage TCR scholars to adopt a multiple paradigmatic approach as part of a three-pronged strategy that encompasses an initial 'provisional moral agnosticism'. As part of this stance, we argue that scholars should value the insights provided by multiple paradigms, turning each paradigmatic lens sequentially on to the issue of the relationship between marketing, development and consumer well-being. After having scrutinised these issues using multiple perspectives, scholars can then decide whether to pursue TCR-led activism. The final strategy that we identify is termed 'critical intolerance'.

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“…They also provided a conduit for a technocratic ethos suiting modernizing national elites in the periphery. As a result, modernization theory accommodated many political constraints of the time: it studied social change but placed the emphasis on overall stability; contributed to exporting the Western sequence of societal development, projected as a universal process of "modernization"; and sought to recast modern Western society as a post-ideological social order (Latham, 1998;Gilman, 2003).…”

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Toward a transnational history of the social sciences

Heilbron

Guilhot

Jeanpierre³

2008

J History Behavioral Science

146

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Historical accounts of the social sciences have too often accepted local or national institutions as a self-evident framework of analysis, instead of considering them as being embedded in transnational relations of various kinds. Evolving patterns of transnational mobility and exchange cut through the neat distinction between the local, the national, and the inter-national, and thus represent an essential component in the dynamics of the social sciences, as well as a fruitful perspective for rethinking their historical development. In this programmatic outline, it is argued that a transnational history of the social sciences may be fruitfully understood on the basis of three general mechanisms, which have structured the transnational flows of people and ideas in decisive ways: (a) the functioning of international scholarly institutions, (b) the transnational mobility of scholars, and (c) the politics of trans-national exchange of nonacademic institutions. The article subsequently examines and illustrates each of these mechanisms.

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Ideology, Social Science, and Destiny: Modernization and the Kennedy-Era Alliance for Progress

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The Human Sciences in Cold War America

The discourses of marketing and development: towards ‘critical transformative marketing research’

Toward a transnational history of the social sciences

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