Program

Research Programs: Humanities, Science, and Technology

Period of Performance

7/1/1976 - 6/30/1977

Funding Totals

$6,500.00 (approved)
$6,500.00 (awarded)


Effects of Cultural Values Upon Social Sciences Research About Women as Workers

FAIN: RH-10044-76

Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center (Waltham, MA 02452-6332)
Dorothy C. Wertz (Project Director: July 1976 to present)

To produce a book for the educated general reader describing the relations between social and cultural values and social science research on a value-laden subject on women's work outside the home in an industrial society involving the effects of values on the goals, methods and results of social science research; the effects of research on values, and, biographical investigations of researchers to delineate the various social nexes from which their values emerged.