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PART I-INTRODUCTION
Introduction: The Social Sciences and Their Philanthropic Mentors, Theresa Richardson and Donald Fisher
Critical and Conventional Images of the Rockefeller Philanthropies in the Sociological Literature, Edward T. Silva
The Rockefeller Boards: The Organization of Philanthropy and the Origins of the Social Sciences, Theresa Richardson
PART II-FROM PERSONALITIES TO PROGRAMS
"The World We Seek as Christians," Mary van Kleeck
Philanthropy and Early Social Science Initiatives, Guy Alchon
A Matter of Trust: Rockefeller Philanthropy and the Creation of the Social Science Research Councils in the United States and Canada, Donald Fisher
Part III-FORMALIZING PERSPECTIVES AND DISCIPLINES
A Few Good Men: The Rockefeller Approach to Population, 1911-1936, Jennifer Gunn
The World as Laboratory: Strategies of Field Research Developed by Mental Hygiene Psychologists in Toronto, 1920-1940, Hans Pols
The Yale Connection in American Psychology: Philanthropy, War and the Emergence of an Academic Elite, James J. Capshew
PART IV-APPLYING AND DISSEMINATING SOCIAL SCIENCE
Applying the New Psychology: Parent Education and Philanthropy, Judith Sealander
Reaching Human Minds: Rockefeller Philanthropy and Communications, 1935-1939, William J. Buxton
Rockefeller Philanthropy and the Social Sciences: International Perspectives, Edward H. Berman
Does Funding Produce Its Effects? The Rockefeller Case, Stephen P. Turner
References
About the Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index
About the author
THERESA RICHARDSON is Assistant Professor in the Psychological and Social Foundations Department at the University of South Florida. She has recent publications in
Paedagogica Historia and sits on the editorial board for the
History of Education Quarterly.
DONALD FISHER is Professor of Sociology of Education in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia, and Assistant Director of the Center for Policy Studies. He has numerous articles in
Minerva,
History of Education,
Sociology Review and
Sociology as well as chapters in books on boundary work in the development of the social sciences is Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
