Shaky foundations [electronic resource] : the politics-patronage-social science nexus in Cold War America / Mark Solovey.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in modern science, technology, and the environmentPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2013.Description: x, 253 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 300.72/073 23
LOC classification:
  • H62.5.U5 S65 2013eb
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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.
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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.

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