Research Catalog

Title

Science and culture : a study of cohesive and disjunctive forces / edited by Gerald Holton.

Publication

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1965.

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Details

Additional Authors

Holton, Gerald James

Description

xxxiii, 348 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

The Daedalus library ; [v. 4]

Uniform Title

• Daedalus (Boston, Mass.)
• Daedalus library ; v. 4.

Subject

• Science and civilization
• Wetenschap
• Cultuur
• Krachten
• Science > Social aspects

Note

• Most of these essays, several in somewhat different form, were originally published in the winter 1965 issue of Daedalus.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

[1.] Definitions: Semantics of culture / Harry Levin -- On Scientia / James S. Ackerman -- Culture and social cohesion: an anthropologist's view / Edmund R. Leach -- Unity and diversity in the modern intellectual disciplines: the role of the social sciences / Talcott Parsons -- [2.] On coherences and transformations: Scientific concepts and cultural change / Harvey Brooks -- The thematic imagination in science / Gerald Holton -- The established dissenters / Don K. Price -- The visual arts and the science: a proposal for collaboration / Gyorgy Kepes -- The future as the basis for establishing a shared culture / Margaret Mead -- [3.] On disjunction and alienation: Science and technology in popular culture / Oscar Handlin -- Science in modern culture / Eric Weil -- Remarks on a redefinition of culture / Herbert Marcuse -- The disjunction of culture and social structure: some notes on the meaning of social reality / Daniel Bell -- Science and man's nature / René Dubos -- Toward a common scale of measurement / Robert S. Morison -- The integrity of science / a report by the American Association for the Advancement of Science Committee on science in the promotion of human welfare.

LCCN

65019315

OCLC

• ocm00965419
• 965419
• SCSB-387014

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library