Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Charles Frankel
  • The autonomy of the social sciences / Charles Frankel
  • The role of values in social sciences research / Nicholas Rescher
  • The reward system of the social sciences / Jonathan R. Cole and Stephen Cole
  • The ideal of objectivity among American social scientists in the era of professionalization, 1876-1916 / Hugh Hawkins
  • Max Weber and the roots of academic freedom / Robert Nisbet
  • Five decades of public controversy over mental testing / Lee J. Cronbach
  • The Jensen controversy : a study in the ethics and politics of knowledge in democracy / Yaron Ezrahi
  • Scholars as public adversaries : the case of economics / Harry G. Johnson
  • Science advising and the ABM debate / Paul Doty
  • Scholarly rights and political morality / Kenneth E. Boulding
  • Federal-academic relations in social science research / H. Field Haviland
  • The federal government and the autonomy of scholarship / Harvey Brooks
  • How good was the answer? How good was the question? / Adam Yarmoninsky
  • Legitimating the social sciences : meeting the challenges to objectivity and integrity / Edward Shils.