The Social Science Research Program of the National Science Foundation

1957 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 582 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Alpert
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Research Program ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
National Science

The Politics of Social Research: Institutionalizing Public Funding Regimes in the United States and Britain

1998 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 415-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
DESMOND KING
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Science ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Social ◽  
National Science

In the twenty years after 1945 both the United States and Britain created public funding regimes for social science, through the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) respectively. The historical and political contexts in which these institutions were founded differed, but the assumptions about social science concurred. This article uses archival sources to explain this comparative pattern. It is argued that the political context in both countries played a key role in the development of the two research agencies. In each country the need politically to stress the neutrality of social research – though for different reasons in each case – produced a bias towards positivist scientific methodology, untempered by ideology. This propensity created the trajectory upon which each country's public funding regime rests.

Franciscan Missions and Chiriguano Workers: Colonization, Acculturation and Indian Labor in Southeastern Bolivia

1987 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erick D. Langer
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Franciscan Missions ◽  
American Foundation ◽  
Science Research Council

An earlier version of this essay was presented at the Symposium “Bolivia: Formation and Development of a Labor Force, 1600 to the Present,” organized by Ann Zulawski and Lesley Gill for the 45th International Congress of Americanists, Bogotá, Colombia, 1985. The author wishes to thank Robert H. Jackson, Brooke Larson, and Nils Jacobsen for their comments on the paper. Research funds were provided by the Social Science Research Council, Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Research Program, and the Inter-American Foundation.

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