Shaky Foundations: The Politics-Patronage-Social Science Nexus in Cold War America
(Part of the Studies in Modern Science, Technology, and the Environment Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0813571286
ISBN13:9780813571287
Release Date:May 2015
Publisher:Rutgers University Press
Length:266 Pages
Weight:0.80 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Grade Range:Postsecondary
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