The Resource Shaky foundations : the politics-patronage-social science nexus in Cold War America, Mark Solovey
Shaky foundations : the politics-patronage-social science nexus in Cold War America, Mark Solovey
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- Summary
- 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. Focusing on the defense department, the Ford Foundation, and the National Science Foundation, Mark Solovey explores the struggles of these various funders to define what counted as legitimate social science and how their policies and programs helped to shape the goals, subject matter
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xii, 254 pages).
- Contents
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- 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: toward 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
- Conclusion
- Isbn
- 9780813554662
- Label
- Shaky foundations : the politics-patronage-social science nexus in Cold War America
- Title
- Shaky foundations
- Title remainder
- the politics-patronage-social science nexus in Cold War America
- Statement of responsibility
- Mark Solovey
- Subject
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- Cold War -- Social aspects
- Electronic books
- Endowment of research -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- History
- SCIENCE -- History
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Methodology
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Research
- Social aspects
- Social sciences -- Research
- Social sciences -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- United States
- World politics
- World politics -- 1945-1989
- 1900-1999
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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. Focusing on the defense department, the Ford Foundation, and the National Science Foundation, Mark Solovey explores the struggles of these various funders to define what counted as legitimate social science and how their policies and programs helped to shape the goals, subject matter
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1964-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Solovey, Mark
- Dewey number
- 300.72/073
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- H62.5.U5
- LC item number
- S65 2013eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Studies in Modern Science, Technology, and the Environment
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Social sciences
- Endowment of research
- Cold War
- World politics
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- SCIENCE
- Social aspects
- Social sciences
- World politics
- United States
- Label
- Shaky foundations : the politics-patronage-social science nexus in Cold War America, Mark Solovey
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- online resource
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- multicolored
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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: toward 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 -- Conclusion
- Control code
- 824698498
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xii, 254 pages).
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780813554662
- Lccn
- 2012012098
- Level of compression
- unknown
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- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- c
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- 22573/ctt4jvds6
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- not applicable
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- unknown
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- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)824698498
- Label
- Shaky foundations : the politics-patronage-social science nexus in Cold War America, Mark Solovey
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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: toward 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 -- Conclusion
- Control code
- 824698498
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xii, 254 pages).
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780813554662
- Lccn
- 2012012098
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt4jvds6
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)824698498
Subject
- Cold War -- Social aspects
- Electronic books
- Endowment of research -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- History
- SCIENCE -- History
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Methodology
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Research
- Social aspects
- Social sciences -- Research
- Social sciences -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- United States
- World politics
- World politics -- 1945-1989
- 1900-1999
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