Shaky Foundations : : The Politics-Patronage-Social Science Nexus in Cold War America /

Shaky Foundations : : The Politics-Patronage-Social Science Nexus in Cold War America / / Mark Solovey.

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Numerous popular and scholarly accounts have exposed the deep impact of patrons on the production of scientific knowledge and its applications. Shaky Foundations provides the first extensive examination of a new patronage system for the social sciences that emerged in the early Cold War years and to...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Solovey, Mark,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Studies in Modern Science, Technology, and the Environment
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Physical Description:1 online resource (266 p.) :; 10 illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION. Social Scientists and Their Patrons in a Remarkable Era
  • 1. Social Science on the Endless (and End- less?) Frontier: The Postwar NSF Debate
  • 2. Defense and Offense in the Military Science Establishment: Toward a Technology of Human Behavior
  • 3. Vision, Analysis, or Subversion? The Rocky Story of the Behavioral Sciences at the Ford Foundation
  • 4. Cultivating Hard- Core Social Research at the NSF: Protective Coloration and Official Negroes
  • CONCLUSION
  • NOTES
  • INDEX
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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