Contents
Preface
Foreword by Donald R. Young
Chapter I: Knowledge and Government
Chapter II: The Shaping of Social Science
Before and During World War I
The 1920's: Institutes for Social Science
The Social Science Research Council
The Research Committee on Social Trends
Chapter III: The New Deal
Programs and Administration
National Planning
Knowledge for What?
Chapter IV: The Second World War
Economic Mobilization
Central Scientific Organization
Program Research
Foreign Operations
The Demobilization of Social Science
Chapter V: The Common Defense
The National Science Foundation
The Military Services
The Department of Defense
Systems Analysis
Project Camelot
Chapter VI. Foreign Affairs
Foreign Area Research
The Department of State
The Military Operators
The Civilian Operators
Direction and Coordination
Chapter VII: Social Change
Economic Policies
Social Programs
Tools of Analysis
Central Organization
Chapter VIII: Federal Policy for Social Science
The Growth of Support
The Quest for Recognition
A Foundation for the Social Sciences
The Report of the National Academy of Sciences
The Past as Prologue
Appendix I. Extracts from "A Review of Findings by the President's Research Committee on Social Trends," in Recent Social Trends in the United States, Report of the President's Research Committee on Social Trends, 1933
Appendix II. "Summary of Memoranda on the Research of the Federal Government in the Social Sciences," by Charles H. Judd, in Research - A National Resource, Report of the Science Committee to the National Resources Committee, 1938
Appendix III. Strengthening the Behavioral Sciences, Statement by the Behavioral Sciences Subpanel, The Life Sciences Panel, President's Science Advisory Committee, 1962
Appendix IV. "Summary and Recommendations," in The Behavioral Sciences and the Federal Government, Report of the Advisory Committee on Government Programs in the Behavioral Sciences, National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, 1968
Index