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

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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 took more definite shape during the 1950s and early 1960s. Focusing on the defense department, the Ford Foundation, and the National Science Found...

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Autor principal: Solovey, Mark, 1964- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
World politics.
Social sciences > Research.
Social aspects.
SCIENCE > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Research.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Methodology.
Politique mondiale > 1945-1989.
Guerre froide > Aspect social.
Fondations de recherche > Aspect politique > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Sciences sociales > Recherche > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
World politics > 1945-1989.
Cold War > Social aspects.
Endowment of research > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Social sciences > Research > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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: toward 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
  • Conclusion.

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