Shaky Foundations : The Politics-Patronage-Social Science Nexus in Cold War America

Mark Solovey

ISBN 10: 0813571286 / ISBN 13: 9780813571287

Verlag: Rutgers University Press Mai 2015, 2015

Beschreibung

Neuware - 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, methodologies, and social implications of academic social research in the nuclear age.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780813571287

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Shaky Foundations : The Politics-Patronage-Social Science Nexus in Cold War America
• Verlag: Rutgers University Press Mai 2015
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0813571286
• ISBN-13: 9780813571287
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 226B x 151 H x 17 T Millimeter Breite: 226 mm, Höhe: 151 mm, Tiefe: 17 mm
• Gewicht: 390 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

MARK SOLOVEY is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto’s Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. He is the coeditor of Cold War Social Science: Knowledge Production, Liberal Democracy, and Human Nature.