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Particular universality: Science, culture, and nationalism in Australia, Canada, and the United States, 1915--1960.

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Title/Author:	Particular universality: Science, culture, and nationalism in Australia, Canada, and the United States, 1915--1960.
Author:	Ferney, Christian Paul.
Description:	259 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-03, Section: A, page: 1058.
Notes:	Adviser: Suzanne Shanahan.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International70-03A.
Subject:	Sociology, Theory and Methods.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3350478
ISBN:	9781109085204

Particular universality: Science, culture, and nationalism in Australia, Canada, and the United States, 1915--1960.
Ferney, Christian Paul.

Particular universality: Science, culture, and nationalism in Australia, Canada, and the United States, 1915--1960. - 259 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-03, Section: A, page: 1058.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Duke University, 2009.

This dissertation examines offers a corrective to the world polity theory of globalization, which posits increasing convergence on a single global cultural frame. In contrast, I suggest that national culture limits the adoption of "world culture" by actors and institutions. Instead of adopting world cultural models wholesale, they are adapted through a process I call translated global diffusion. In order to assess my theory, I follow the creation and development of organizations founded by Australia, Canada, and the United States to foster scientific development within their borders. All three national organizations were initiated around 1915, part of an international wave of state science that prima facie appears to support the world polity thesis.

ISBN: 9781109085204Subjects--Topical Terms:

212588
Sociology, Theory and Methods.

Particular universality: Science, culture, and nationalism in Australia, Canada, and the United States, 1915--1960.
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520 $a Through a comparative historical analysis that combines archival material and secondary histories from each case, I demonstrate that concerns tied to national identity mediate the incorporation of models sanctioned as part of a "world cultural canopy" of institutional scripts. More specifically, federal legislatures circumscribe new organizations to fit preexisting ideas of proper government. Secondly, the scientists effectively running state science organizations negotiate often conflicting nationalistic and professional impulses. Finally, the national news media report about science in a selective and nationally filtered way. The result is a kind of particular universality, science layered with national import only fully visible from within the nation-state.
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