« Pepe, regarde ! Les experts arrivent ! » : Porto Rico comme laboratoire des sciences sociales
The United States, as a colonial power and with the support of the Popular Democratic Party (PPD) led by Luis Muñoz Marín, used the social sciences to present Puerto Rico as the perfect setting for thinking modernity and industrialization through public policy. Between 1940-1960 the University of Pu...
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| author | Giselle Avilés-Maldonado |
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| description | The United States, as a colonial power and with the support of the Popular Democratic Party (PPD) led by Luis Muñoz Marín, used the social sciences to present Puerto Rico as the perfect setting for thinking modernity and industrialization through public policy. Between 1940-1960 the University of Puerto Rico and the Centro de Investigaciones Sociales (CIS) will become showcases for the production and legitimation of United States social science. From testimonies gathered of three key researchers of the time, this article proposes to restore the tensions of practicing social science in Puerto Rico within the colonial period. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4bb118f69da043b7a19cb31b923d7e652024-02-13T13:12:47ZengUniversité des AntillesÉtudes Caribéennes1779-09801961-859X3310.4000/etudescaribeennes.8785« Pepe, regarde ! Les experts arrivent ! » : Porto Rico comme laboratoire des sciences socialesGiselle Avilés-MaldonadoThe United States, as a colonial power and with the support of the Popular Democratic Party (PPD) led by Luis Muñoz Marín, used the social sciences to present Puerto Rico as the perfect setting for thinking modernity and industrialization through public policy. Between 1940-1960 the University of Puerto Rico and the Centro de Investigaciones Sociales (CIS) will become showcases for the production and legitimation of United States social science. From testimonies gathered of three key researchers of the time, this article proposes to restore the tensions of practicing social science in Puerto Rico within the colonial period.https://journals.openedition.org/etudescaribeennes/8785colonizationsocial sciences |
| spellingShingle | Giselle Avilés-Maldonado « Pepe, regarde ! Les experts arrivent ! » : Porto Rico comme laboratoire des sciences sociales Études Caribéennes colonization social sciences |
| title | « Pepe, regarde ! Les experts arrivent ! » : Porto Rico comme laboratoire des sciences sociales |
| title_full | « Pepe, regarde ! Les experts arrivent ! » : Porto Rico comme laboratoire des sciences sociales |
| title_fullStr | « Pepe, regarde ! Les experts arrivent ! » : Porto Rico comme laboratoire des sciences sociales |
| title_full_unstemmed | « Pepe, regarde ! Les experts arrivent ! » : Porto Rico comme laboratoire des sciences sociales |
| title_short | « Pepe, regarde ! Les experts arrivent ! » : Porto Rico comme laboratoire des sciences sociales |
| title_sort | pepe regarde les experts arrivent porto rico comme laboratoire des sciences sociales |
| topic | colonization social sciences |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/etudescaribeennes/8785 |
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