Traveling Concepts: Anthropological Engagements with Histories of Social Science

BF Van Eekelen - Annual Review of Anthropology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
This article discusses historical and anthropological approaches to the life of social science.
After presenting the thematic of social science concepts that figure as found object in cultural …

“Overtake and Surpass”: Soviet algorithmic thinking as a reinvention of Western theories during the Cold War

E Babintseva - Cold war social science: Transnational entanglements, 2021 - Springer
This chapter examines the role of Cold War exchanges in the human sciences that shaped
Soviet research on programmed instruction during the 1960s and 1970s. Pioneered by …