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Shaky Foundations
2013
Overview
Numerous popular and scholarly accounts have exposed the deep impact of patrons on the production of scientific knowledge and its applications.Shaky Foundationsprovides 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 Foundationsaddresses 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.
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Subject
/ america
/ Cold War
/ Endowment of research -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
/ History
/ HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
/ History of Science & Technology
/ HISTORY / Military / Wars & Conflicts (Other)
/ military
/ NSF
/ politics
/ rutgers
/ SCIENCE
/ Social sciences -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century
/ usa
/ war
ISBN
0813554667, 9780813554662, 9780813554655, 0813554659, 0813571286, 9780813571287
