From data-rich infographics to 140 character tweets and activist cell phone photos taken at
political protests, 21st century journalism is awash in new ways to report, display, and …

The Open Mind chronicles the development and promulgation of a scientific vision of the
rational, creative, and autonomous self, demonstrating how this self became a defining …

Numerous popular and scholarly accounts have exposed the deep impact of patrons on the
production of scientific knowledge and its applications. Shaky Foundations provides the first …

This paper examines one aspect of early twentieth century debates over the meaning of
scientific methodology and epistemology within the social sciences: the tendency of …

This article explores how linguistic categories affect boundary work in scholarly knowledge
production. Whereas the German language knows the unified concept of Wissenschaft for all …

Organisme fédéral de financement et de recensement de l'activité scientifique étasunienne,
la National Science Foundation est le symbole des transformations de l'organisation …

L'article revient sur la période de l'après-guerre pour éclairer la question du «faire science»
de l'économie à partir de la constitution des critères d'appartenance à cette discipline. Il …

In this paper we start from Mark Solovey's Social Science for What? to analyze the place and
the role of the social sciences in the US National Science Foundation from the mid-1940s to …

The economics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology provides a field
well befitting to study the translation in the discipline of economics of “esoteric research” into …

The goal of this dissertation is to examine grant-proposal writing as a craft and potential
ways to improve grant-proposal writing knowledge and application readiness for students …