International Network for Integrated Social Science

2000 ◽  
pp. 340-356
Author(s):  
William Sims Bainbridge
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
International Network ◽  
The Social ◽  
National Science ◽  
Research And Education

Computer-related developments across the social sciences are converging on an entirely new kind of infrastructure that integrates across methodologies, disciplines, and nations. This chapter examines the potential outlined by a number of conference reports, special grant competitions, and recent research awards supported by the National Science Foundation. Together, these sources describe an Internet-based network of collaboratories combining survey, experimental, and geographic methodologies to serve research and education in all of the social sciences.

scholarly journals The Impossible Dream: Scientism as Strategy against Distrust of Social Science at the U.S. National Science Foundation, 1945–1980

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-238
Author(s):  
Mark Solovey
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Relevance ◽  
Deep Roots ◽  
Nuclear Age ◽  
The Social ◽  
National Science ◽  
Science And Culture ◽  
Different Sources ◽  
The U.S

Distrust of the social sciences has deep roots in American politics, science, and culture. This article examines how distrust became a serious issue in the nuclear age by focusing on the U.S. National Science Foundation’s involvement with the social sciences from 1945 to 1980. I propose, first, that in this context distrust of NSF’s social science activities came in two forms, which rested on two different sources of doubt. Epistemological Distrust stemmed from doubts about the scientific status of the social sciences. Social Distrust involved worries about the social relevance and policy uses of the social sciences. Second, I propose that efforts to address and contain these two types of distrust played a major role in NSF’s elaboration of a view of the social sciences and corresponding strategy for funding them that I will refer to as Scientism, which assumed a unified scientific framework that took an idealized conception of the natural sciences as the gold standard.

scholarly journals Assessing Outcomes of National Science Foundation Grants in the Social Sciences

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle Kopko ◽  
Ashley Edwards ◽  
Erin Krause ◽  
Vincent James McGonigle
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
The Social ◽  
National Science

Undergraduate and Graduate Design Projects

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilbert B. Devey
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Review Process ◽  
Peer Review Process ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
Biochemical Engineering ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
National Science ◽  
Design Projects ◽  
Research And Education

Abstract The National Science Foundation (MSF) was established in 1950 as an Independent Agency of the Federal Government with the broad mission to promote and advance scientific progress in the U.S. This is accomplished primarily by supporting research and education in all disciplines of the natural and social sciences, mathematics, and engineering. Support is provided principally in the form of grants awarded on a competitive basis under a rigorous peer review process; NSF does not conduct research itself. In 1992, NSF defined a project eligible for support as bioengineering research as one “...with diagnosis or treatment-related goals, that applies engineering principles to problems in biology and medicine while advancing engineering knowledge is eligible for support. Bioengineering research to aid persons with disabilities is also eligible”.1 Bioengineering at NSF has two defined programs: 1 - “Biochemical Engineering”, and 2 - a two-component activity “Biomedical Engineering” (BME) and “Research to Aid Persons with Disabilities” (RAPD). Undergraduate and Graduate Design Projects is part of the RAPD component of the program.

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