Shaky foundations
Solovey, Mark, 1964-
Shaky foundations the politics-patronage-social science nexus in Cold War America / [electronic resource] : Mark Solovey. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2013. - x, 253 p. : ill. - Studies in modern science, technology, and the environment .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Social sciences--Research--History--United States--20th century.
Endowment of research--Political aspects--History--United States--20th century.
Cold War--Social aspects.
World politics--1945-1989.
Electronic books.
H62.5.U5 / S65 2013eb
300.72/073
Shaky foundations the politics-patronage-social science nexus in Cold War America / [electronic resource] : Mark Solovey. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2013. - x, 253 p. : ill. - Studies in modern science, technology, and the environment .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Social sciences--Research--History--United States--20th century.
Endowment of research--Political aspects--History--United States--20th century.
Cold War--Social aspects.
World politics--1945-1989.
Electronic books.
H62.5.U5 / S65 2013eb
300.72/073