Excerpt from The Noble Experiment: Social Scientists in Engineering One important set of factors which affected the social scientists in their bid to become legitimate members of the department was anchored in the institutional context of this particular university and school of engineering at this time in history. This section describes that set of factors, beginning with the broad societal context of America in the 1960's and early 1970's, and progressing organizationally inward from the governmental, university, and school levels to the departmental levels of analysis. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.