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SHAKY FOUNDATIONS
THE POLITICS-PATRONAGE-SOCIAL SCIENCE NEXUS IN COLD WAR AMERICA |
| By: |
Mark Solovey |
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Hardback |
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£134.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0813554659 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780813554655 |
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| Publisher: |
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 January, 2013 |
| Pages: |
280 |
| Description: |
Provides the first extensive examination of a new patronage system for the social sciences that emerged in the US in the early Cold War years. Focusing on the defense department, the Ford Foundation, and the National Science Foundation, it explores the struggles of these funders to define what counted as legitimate social science and how their policies and programmes helped to shape the goals, subject matter, methodologies, and social implications of academic social research in the nuclear age. |
| Synopsis: |
Numerous popular and scholarly accounts have exposed the deep impact of patrons on the production of scientific knowledge and its applications. 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, a period of enormous expansion in American social science. By focusing on the military, the Ford Foundation, and the National Science Foundation, Mark Solovey shows how this patronage system presented social scientists and other interested parties, including natural scientists and politicians, with new opportunities to work out the scientific identity, social implications, and public policy uses of academic social research. Solovey also examines significant criticisms of the new patronage system, which contributed to widespread efforts to rethink and reshape the politics-patronage-social science nexus starting in the mid-1960s. Based on extensive archival research, Shaky Foundations addresses fundamental questions about the intellectual foundations of the social sciences, their relationships with the natural sciences and the humanities, and the political and ideological import of academic social inquiry.|Numerous popular and scholarly accounts have exposed the deep impact of patrons on the production of scientific knowledge and its applications. 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, a period of enormous expansion in American social science. By focusing on the military, the Ford Foundation, and the National Science Foundation, Mark Solovey shows how this patronage system presented social scientists and other interested parties, including natural scientists and politicians, with new opportunities to work out the scientific identity, social implications, and public policy uses of academic social research. Solovey also examines significant criticisms of the new patronage system, which contributed to widespread efforts to rethink and reshape the politics-patronage-social science nexus starting in the mid-1960s. Based on extensive archival research, Shaky Foundations addresses fundamental questions about the intellectual foundations of the social sciences, their relationships with the natural sciences and the humanities, and the political and ideological import of academic social inquiry. |
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10 illustrations |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Rutgers University Press |
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Returnable |
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