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

by Mark Solovey and Professor Mark Solovey

Book Overview

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.

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• 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"