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Shaky foundations : the politics-patronage-social science nexus in Cold War America / Mark Solovey.
LIBRA H62.5.U5 S65 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Solovey, Mark, 1964-
- Series:
- Studies in modern science, technology, and the environment
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social sciences--Research--United States--History--20th century.
- Social sciences.
- Endowment of research--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Endowment of research.
- Cold War--Social aspects.
- Cold War.
- World politics--1945-1989.
- World politics.
- Social aspects.
- History.
- Social sciences--Research.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- x, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2013]
- Summary:
- Shaky Foundations is the first extensive examination of a new patronage system for the social sciences that emerged in the early Cold War years and took more definite shape during the 1950s and early 1960s, a period of enormous expansion in American social science.
- Mark Solovey focuses on the military, the Ford Foundation, and the National Science Foundation to show how this patronage system presented social scientists and other interested parties, including natural scientists and politicians, with new opportunities to work out the scientific identity, social implications, and public policy uses of academic social research. He also examines significant criticisms of the new patronage system, which contributed to widespread efforts to rethink and reshape the politics-patronage-social science nexus starting in the mid-1960s.
- Based on extensive archival research, Shaky Foundations addresses fundamental questions about the intellectual foundations of the social sciences, their relationships with the natural sciences and the humanities, and the political and ideological import of academic social inquiry. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: social scientists and their patrons in a remarkable era
- Social science on the endless (and end-less?) frontier: the postwar NSF debate
- Defense and offense in the military science establishment: towards a technology of human behavior
- Vision, analysis, or subversion?: the rocky story of the behavioral sciences at the Ford Foundation
- Cultivating hard-core social research at the NSF: protective coloration and official Negroes.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813554655
- 0813554659
- 9780813554662
- 0813554667
- OCLC:
- 788264232
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