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A Study on Korea’s Acceptance of American Political Science between the 1950s and the 1960s - With Much Focus on Behavioralism in Political Science -

  • Journal of Humanities
  • 2019, (73), pp.361-402
  • DOI : 10.31310/HUM.073.11
  • Publisher : Institute for Humanities
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : April 5, 2019
  • Accepted : May 13, 2019
  • Published : May 31, 2019

Jeongwan Hong 1

1연세대학교

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ABSTRACT

American political science represented by behavioralism was actively introduced to Korean political scientists in the late 1950s. Their attraction to behavioralism was premised on their observation that the idea would make it possible to diagnose, manage and adjust pathological ‘political activities’ by analyzing psychological and statistical resources related to the political behaviors that constitute politics and political systems. These political scientists emphasized the imbalance and instability of political systems in underdeveloped countries, as compared to those in the United States and Great Britain, and contended that political problems in the former nations could be gradually overcome through political education. But some Korean political scientists found it critical that behavioralism had shown a tendency to marginalize the question of ‘ideology’ and ‘value,’ and thus argued that behavioralism was not applicable to ‘underdeveloped societies’ since it focuses on the quantification of super-ficial political situations.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.