Shaky foundations the politics-patronage-social science nexus in Cold War America /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Solovey, Mark, 1964-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2013.
Series:Studies in modern science, technology, and the environment
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of 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.