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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Solovey, Mark, 1964-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
World politics > 1945-1989.
Cold War > Social aspects.
Endowment of research > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Social sciences > Research > United States > History > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.