Science in context
Social intervention in Curaçao: Using behavioral science technologies for social and economic development, 1969-1971.
Lukas Held
Published: 202510.1017/S0269889725100732
Abstract
This article examines how the American psychologist David McClelland advocated a quasi-colonial interventionist view to social science, shaped by his understanding of scientific progress, economic development, and social change. In the 1960s, he saw…
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