The Price of Success: Sociologist Harry Alpert, the NSF's First Social Science Policy Architect.
Harry Alpert (1912-1977), the US sociologist, is best-known for his directorship of the National Science Foundation's social science programme in the 1950s. This study extends our understanding of Alpert in two main ways: first, by examining the earlier development of his views and career. Beginning...
| Publicado en: | Annals of Science Vol. 68; no. 2; pp. 229 - 261 |
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