Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction / Charles Frankel
The Autonomy of the Social Sciences / Charles Frankel
The Role of Values in Social Science Research / Nicholas Rescher
The Reward System of the Social Sciences / Jonathan R. Cole and Stephen Cole
The Ideal of Objectivity among American Social Scientists in the Era of Professionalization, 1876-1916 / Hugh Hawkins
Max Weber and the Roots of Academic Freedom / Robert Nisbet
Five Decades of Public Controversy Over Mental Testing / Lee J. Cronbach
The Jensen Controversy: A Study in the Ethics and Politics of Knowledge in Democracy / Yaron Ezrahi
Scholars as Public Adversaries: The Case of Economics / Harry G. Johnson
Science Advising and the ABM Debate / Paul Doty
Scholarly Rights and Political Morality / Kenneth E. Boulding
Federal-Academic Relations in Social Science Research / H. Field Haviland
The Federal Government and the Autonomy of Scholarship / Harvey Brooks
How Good Was the Answer? How Good Was the Question? / Adam Yarmolinsky
Legitimating the Social Sciences: Meeting the Challenges to Objectivity and Integrity / Edward Shils
Index