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“Mapping the New Mental World Created by Radio": Media Messages, Cultural Politics, and Cantril and Allport's The Psychology of Radio
(1998)
During the 1930s a number of interesting critiques of science and society emerged in the social sciences in general, and in psychology in particular. One example of this trend is The Psychology of Radio (1935), authored ...
The exact sciences in Lutheran Germany and Tudor England.
(2005)
The final chapters shift focus to England, where a revival of mathematical education was underway by mid-century. In this section, astronomy is defined broadly to include astronomical navigation, since the potential economic ...
Jean Antoine Nollet and experimental natural philosophy in eighteenth-century France /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1985)
Nollet saw his work as part of a collective process that pre-supposed standardization of instruments and procedures. He thus rejected anything that was controversial or that could not be settled in a cabinet de physique. ...
Popular Science in National and Transnational Perspective: Suggestions from the American Context
(2009-06)
In what ways can the study of science and popular culture in the American context contribute to ongoing debates on popularization and popular science? This essay suggests that, for several reasons, attention to the antebellum ...
“A great mass of incompetent men”: Contested medical frontiers in Oklahoma, 1880-1940
(2022-05-13)
This thesis observes the movement of White aspiring physicians to Indian and Oklahoma Territories in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the racial and professional interactions that ensued. Like other Whites, ...
Architects of the self: Social scientists and the construction of the individual in postwar America.
(2004)
American social science experienced unprecedented institutional growth during and after the Second World War due in part to the increased need for techniques in human resource management. As a result, scientific representations ...
Confessionalized Optics: The Society of Jesus and Early Modern Optics
(2022-05)
This dissertation explores the investigation and explanation of optics among prominent members of the Society of Jesus during the early modern period. In doing so it aims to explain why it was that optics became one of the ...
AIR FORCE IMAGES OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AND THEIR REFLECTIONS IN ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND MANAGEMENT POLICIES.
(The University of Oklahoma., 1976)
Willy Ley, the Science Writers, and the Popular Reenchantment of Science
(2014-05-08)
This dissertation explores the life and career of Willy Ley, a science writer and popularizer of spaceflight technology in Germany and the United States during the twentieth century. By following his various “campaigns” ...