Social Science for What? Battles over Public Funding for the "Other Sciences" at the National Science Foundation

• Huvudskapare: Solovey, Mark (auth)
• Materialtyp: Elektronisk Bokavsnitt
• Språk: engelska
• Publicerad: Cambridge The MIT Press 2020
• Serie: The MIT Press
• Ämnen: Science funding & policy; History of science; History of the Americas; Central / national / federal government policies
• Länkar: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

How the NSF became an important yet controversial patron for the social sciences, influencing debates over their scientific status and social relevance. In the early Cold War years, the U.S. government established the National Science Foundation (NSF), a civilian agency that soon became widely known...