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

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...

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Language:English
Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2020
Series:The MIT Press
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