{"product_id":"shaky-foundations-mark-solovey-9780813571287","title":"Shaky Foundations: The Politics-Patronage-Social Science Nexus in Cold War America","description":"\u003cp\u003eNumerous popular and scholarly accounts have exposed the deep impact of patrons on the production of scientific knowledge and its applications. \u003ci\u003eShaky Foundations\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBased on extensive archival research, \u003ci\u003eShaky Foundations\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Solovey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813571286\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813571287\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d","brand":"Mark Solovey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44254739693823,"sku":"9780813571287","price":41.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1b6d1b06-24e5-4944-8c54-14e83ecf8d4c.jpg?v=1694614101","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shaky-foundations-mark-solovey-9780813571287","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}