The Use of Social Research in Federal Domestic Programs: A Staff Study, Parts 1-4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1967 |
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12.-Organizations receiving Federal add due Administration Agriculture Alfred de Grazia American analysis anthropology approx areas basic research behavioral sciences budget Bureau Center College Committee countries Department of Defense department of education Department of Health department of highways Division due to rounding economic expenditures extramural Federal Aviation Agency federal government Federal social research field fiscal year 1965-Continued Fiscal year 1966 Funds unknown Funds grants Hospital human Labor ment Mental Health million National Institute National Science Foundation natural sciences nomics North Carolina North Dakota Number of projects Office organization Dollars thousands Peace Corps physical sciences problems psychology receiving Federal social research and development research programs School social and behavioral social research funds social science research social sciences social scientists Social Security Administration society sociology statistics studies survey TABLE 12.-Organizations receiving Technology tion type of organi Univ University unknown Funds known Washington Welfare York
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Page 11 - Subpart 1-15.2, is that type of research which is directed toward increase of knowledge in science. In such research, the primary aim of the investigator is a fuller knowledge or understanding of the subject under study, rather than any practical application thereof.
Page 135 - I think by far the most important bill in our whole code, is that for the diffusion of knowledge among the people. No other sure foundation can be devised, for the preservation of freedom and happiness.
Page 5 - What is at stake in our economic decisions today is not some grand warfare of rival ideologies which will sweep the country with passion but the practical management of a modern economy. What we need is not labels and cliches but more basic discussion of the sophisticated and technical questions involved in keeping a great economic machinery moving ahead.
Page 378 - Imagine a society of saints, a perfect cloister of exemplary individuals. Crimes, properly so called, will there be unknown; but faults which appear venial to the layman will create there the same scandal that the ordinary offense does in ordinary consciousnesses. If, then, this society has the power to judge and punish, it will define these acts as criminal and will treat them as such.
Page 149 - To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind ; indeed the necessary effects of the ignorance and levity of the vulgar.
Page vi - The financial cost of white-collar crime is probably several times as great as the financial cost of all the crimes which are customarily regarded as the "crime problem." An officer of a chain grocery store in one year embezzled $600,000, which was six times as much as the annual losses from five hundred burglaries and robberies of the stores in that chain. Public enemies...
Page 140 - For the great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived, and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Page 151 - New frontiers of the mind are before us, and if they are pioneered with the same vision, boldness, and drive with which we have waged this war we can create a fuller and more fruitful employment and a fuller and more fruitful life.
Page 15 - Research" is defined as a systematic study directed toward fuller scientific knowledge or understanding of the subject studied. "Development" is the systematic use of knowledge and understanding gained from research directed toward the production of useful materials, devices, systems, or methods, including design and development of prototypes and processes.
Page 139 - Gaulle occasionally acknowledges America to be the daughter of Europe, so I am pleased to come to Yale, the daughter of Harvard. It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds, a Harvard education and a Yale degree.