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Podcast: New Books in Public Policy
Episode: Mark Solovey, "Social Science for What?: Battles over Public Funding for the 'Other Sciences' at the National Science Foundation" (MIT Press, 2020)
Description: This is part one of a two part interview."The social sciences have prospered best in the federal government where they have been included under broad umbrella classifications of the scientific disciplines. … In close company with scientific areas which enjoy the prestige and status of biological or physical sciences, the social sciences have enjoyed a protection and nourishment which they normally do not have when they are identified as such and stand exposed, 'naked and alone.'"— Harry Alpert, sociologist and first social science policy architect, 1960 (Solovey: Ch. 1 lead-in)In the early Cold War...