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714 Eric Trist<br />

UNITED STATES. Federal obligations for <strong>research</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>social</strong> sciences (1967) (<strong>in</strong> f<br />

thous<strong>and</strong>s)<br />

Agency Basic Applied Total<br />

<strong>research</strong> <strong>research</strong><br />

Health, Education <strong>and</strong> Welfare<br />

Office <strong>of</strong> Economic Opportunity<br />

Agriculture<br />

National Science Foundation<br />

Commerce<br />

Defense<br />

Labor<br />

Interior<br />

Smithsonian Institution<br />

State Department<br />

Aeronautics <strong>and</strong> Space Adm<strong>in</strong>istration<br />

Army Control <strong>and</strong> Disarmament<br />

Peace Corps<br />

Tennessee Valley Authority<br />

Small Bus<strong>in</strong>ess Adm<strong>in</strong>istration<br />

Federal Trade Commission<br />

Veterans’ Adm<strong>in</strong>istration<br />

Federal Home Loan Bank Board<br />

Hous<strong>in</strong>g <strong>and</strong> Urban Development<br />

Civil Service Commission<br />

Civil Aeronautics Board<br />

Inter-Governmental Relations<br />

Post Office<br />

Office <strong>of</strong> Emergency Plann<strong>in</strong>g<br />

Federal Aviation Agency<br />

Total<br />

54,042<br />

1,200<br />

6,448<br />

20,235<br />

3,239<br />

8,531<br />

2,187<br />

2,587<br />

2,953<br />

1,044<br />

527<br />

96<br />

32<br />

103,121<br />

177,130<br />

35,000<br />

27,953<br />

21,052<br />

18,565<br />

15,958<br />

12,201<br />

3,643<br />

2,953<br />

2,925<br />

1,961<br />

1,900<br />

1,400<br />

727<br />

659<br />

310<br />

297<br />

270<br />

233<br />

200<br />

I53<br />

I45<br />

50<br />

40<br />

16<br />

325,741<br />

~~~<br />

SOURCE: Federal Funds for Research Development <strong>and</strong> O<strong>the</strong>r Activities (NSP xv, 66-25),<br />

National Science Foundation.*5<br />

<strong>and</strong> a number <strong>of</strong> laboratories. It also conducts a massive external programme,<br />

award<strong>in</strong>g fellowships as well as grants, some <strong>of</strong> which are made overseas. Its<br />

Career Investigatorships provide one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> few means through which senior<br />

<strong>social</strong> scientists can, over a number <strong>of</strong> years, devote <strong>the</strong>mselves wholly to<br />

<strong>research</strong>. Many <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> projects supported have been <strong>in</strong> fundamental <strong>research</strong><br />

with only <strong>in</strong>direct bear<strong>in</strong>g on medical problems. O<strong>the</strong>rs have been cl<strong>in</strong>ically<br />

oriented: some <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> socio-environmental, o<strong>the</strong>rs <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> psychological, o<strong>the</strong>rs<br />

aga<strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> neuro-physiological field. Though <strong>the</strong> recent concern <strong>of</strong> NSF with<br />

<strong>the</strong> <strong>social</strong> sciences has begun to relieve <strong>the</strong> necessity, an agency such as NIMH<br />

has, faute de mieux, taken on <strong>in</strong> a partial way <strong>the</strong> role <strong>of</strong> a <strong>social</strong> science <strong>research</strong><br />

council. A similar partial role has also been carried by <strong>the</strong> Office <strong>of</strong> Naval<br />

Research (ONR) which throughout <strong>the</strong> post-war period has fostered fundamental<br />

<strong>and</strong> long-range problem-oriented <strong>research</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>social</strong> sciences. Some <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

most significant basic projects <strong>in</strong> psychology <strong>in</strong> particular would never have<br />

come to fruition without its support.

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