The Social reality of scientific myth
Subtitle: science and social change.
By: Edited by Kalman H. Silvert. Contributors: E. A. Bayne [and others]
Contributors: Silvert, Kalman H., ed.; Bayne, E. A.; American Universities Field Staff.
Publisher: American Universities Field Staff
Published: 1969
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Science and civilization; Science and state
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword, by K. H. Silvert.; title: Postulations: Science and institutional change, by C. H. Hamburg. War, science, and social change, by L. Morton. Language rationalization and scientific progress, by C. F. Gallagher.; title: Case studies: Science and politics in Brazil; background of the 1967 debate on nuclear energy policy, by J. W. Rowe. Some problems of science education in the developing countries of Africa, by N. DeWitt. Technological growth and scientific lag;   Iran, by E. A. Bayne. Prerequisites, receptivity, and change; government and the development of science in Japan, by F. R. Lockheimer. The policy of Russia and Soviet science; a century of continuity and change, by N.  DeWitt. Science and social change; politics and the organization of science, by C. H. G. Oldham.; title: Conclusions, by K. H. Silvert.