TWO YEARS AFTER THE COLLEGE DEGREE: WORK AND FURTHER STUDY PATTERNS. By Laure M. Sharp, project director. Washington, D. C.: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1963. Prepared by the Bureau of Social Science Research, Inc. for the National Science Foundation. 335 pp. $1.75. Paper

Social Forces ◽  
1964 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-294
Author(s):  
D. P. Irish
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Government Printing ◽  
College Degree ◽  
Project Director ◽  
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.

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