Social Science for What?: Philanthropy and the Social Question in a World Turned Rightside Up

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INDEX Boldface numbers refer to figures and tables. 169 academe. See universities academic culture wars, 136–37 academic freedom cases, 57 ADC (Aid to Dependent Children), 106 Addams, J., 27 advertising industry, 65 advocacy tanks, 147n8 AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children), 106, 108, 109–11, 114 affirmative action, 137 African Americans: academics, 50, 70; Myrdal’s research, 50, 66–70, 91–92, 95 Agnew, S., 113 Aid to Dependent Children (ADC), 106 Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), 106, 108, 109–11, 114 American Association for Labor Legislation, 50 American Conservative Union, 113 American Creed, 67, 68, 70, 95 An American Dilemma (Myrdal), 50, 66–70, 91–92, 95 American Enterprise Institute, 129, 134, 135 American Sociological Review, 26 An American Soldier, 92 Anderson, M., 115 Andrews, F. Emerson, 152n13 behavioral science, 92 Bell, D., 79–80, 89, 94 Bennett, W., 120, 137, 153n42 blacks. See African Americans Block, F., 147n10 Bloom, A., 6, 135, 136, 137 bookbinding industry, 42 Bradley Foundation, 119, 133 Brandeis briefs, 43 Brookings Institution, 49, 87–88 Brown v. Board of Education, 92 Buckley, W., 90, 101 The Burden of Bad Ideas (MacDonald ), 151n4 business: alliance with conservatives , 121–22, 128, 130; conservative activism of, 118; Wormser’s appeal to, 94 Business Week, 86 Butler, E. Beardsley, 29, 34–36 Byington, M., 29, 30–32 California’s Blue Print for National Welfare Reform, 104, 105, 106–17 capitalism: conservative approaches , 7, 95, 96–100, 129; “creative destruction” of, 98; “people’s capitalism,” 82; capitalism (continued) Great Depression as crisis of, 63; liberal approaches, 80, 82, 83, 88 Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (Schumpeter), 153n38 Capitalism and Freedom (Friedman), 99 Carnegie, A., 36 Carnegie Corporation: Myrdal’s An American Dilemma, 66, 67, 70, 95; red-baiting campaign against, 90; as target for conservative criticism, 91; value-laden vision of social science, 48 The Case for Freedom (Fisher), 97 casework techniques, 41 Catholic conservatives, 128–29 Cato Institute, 73 Center for Advance Studies in Behavioral Sciences, 85 Chamber of Commerce, 113, 114, 126, 130 Charities Publication Committee, 27 Charities and the Commons, 27 Cheney, L., 137 class, and welfare reform, 113–14 classical economics, 96–97, 98 The Closing of the American Mind (Bloom), 6, 135, 136, 137 coal mining, 32–34, 46 Cold War, 83, 84 colleges. See universities Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, 44, 53 “color line,” 1 Columbia University, 48, 60 The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology , 149n7 Commission on Industrial Relations , 52–53, 91 Committee on Social Thought, 98 Commons, J., 28, 50 communism, 2 community action, 77 community-based initiatives, 9 Community Work Experience Programs , 117 congressional hearings, 90–91 conservative organizations: effectiveness of, 119–20; examples of, 119; influence of, 8–9; John M. Olin Foundation’s impact, 119, 132, 133–38; research methodology , 7–8; rise of, 3–4, 78, 120–23; tactics of, 132–33. See also specific organizations conservatives and conservatism: beliefs and ideas of, 5–7, 95–101; Bell’s depiction of, 89; and business , 118, 121–22, 128, 130; capitalism , 7, 95, 96–100; Catholics, 128–29; counterrevolution of, 73–79, 89–101, 102; dominance of, 74, 139; and empirical approach , 8, 99, 119; ideology of, 6, 74, 95, 128; intellectuals, 73, 76, 95, 118, 120–21, 127–30; knowledge , 7–8, 75–76, 99–100; McCarthy era attacks on social science , 90–95; mobilization of, 124–32; neoconservatives, 98–99, 120–21, 128–30; opposition to New Deal and postwar liberalism , 75, 76–77, 95, 110; policy issues , 74; political influence, 74; postwar liberals’ lack of acknowledgment of, 89; and social question, 6, 124; welfare reform, 102–5, 109–14 consumer credit, 38–40 Index 170 Consumer Credit and Economic Stability (Nugent), 40 Consumers’ National Federation, 62 contract research industry, 86 Contract with America, 104 Coors Foundation, 119 Cornell University, 133 corporate foundations, funding of controversial social research, 53–54 corporate liberalism, 53–54 corporate philanthropy, 131 corporations. See business Council of Economic Advisers, 84, 88 counterintelligentsia, 73, 95, 127–28 counterrevolution, of conservatives , 73–79, 89–101, 102 Cox, E., 91 crisis, 21 cultural lag, 56, 57 cultural relativism, 7 data, role in social policy, 147n11 data collection: as basis for neutrality , 54–55; Pittsburgh Survey, 28 day laborers, 31 Decter, M., 120 de Forest, R., 27 democracy: liberal consensus, 80–81; and systems analysis, 87; and value-neutrality debate, 51, 63, 64–65 democratic planning...