The Scientist's Role in Society: A Comparative Study.
Social ForcesPublished 1 December 1972
Nicholas C. Mullins, Joseph Ben‐David
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Abstract
gence of the role of the scientist and the factors affecting the growth of science within a comparative, historical framework, using material from ancient Greece, Renaissance Italy, France, Britain, Germany and modern America. The weakest chapter of the book is the one on modern America, which becomes very like a micro-sociology of American higher education, an approach BenDavid has tried to avoid in the rest of the book. Traditional societies like ancient
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Decision Sciences