General Information

Author/Creator

Lemov, Rebecca M. (Rebecca Maura), author.

Language

English.

Published

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2015.

Physical Description

xii, 354 pages ; 24 cm.

Contents/Summary

Summary

"Just a few years before the dawn of the digital age, Harvard psychologist Bert Kaplan set out to build the largest database of sociological information ever assembled. It was the mid-1950s, and social scientists were entranced by the human insights promised by Rorschach tests and other innovative scientific protocols. Kaplan, along with anthropologist A. I. Hallowell and a team of researchers, sought out a varied range of non-European subjects among remote and largely non-literate peoples around the globe. Recording their dreams, stories, and innermost thoughts in a vast database, Kaplan envisioned future researchers accessing the data through the cutting-edge Readex machine. Almost immediately, however, technological developments and the obsolescence of the theoretical framework rendered the project irrelevant, and eventually it was forgotten."--

Subjects

Subject

Kaplan, Bert, 1919-

Psychology > Data processing > History > 20th century.

Psychology > Research > History > 20th century.

Dreams > Data processing > History > 20th century.

Sociology > Data processing > History > 20th century.

Sociology > Research > History > 20th century.

Big data > History > 20th century.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Rebecca Lemov.

ISBN

9780300209525

0300209525

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	300 LEM		Reference	-

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