Development of the Social Sciences in the United States and Canada

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.

• 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