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The rights of research assistants and the rhetoric of political suppression: Morton Grodzins and the University of California Japanese‐American Evacuation and Resettlement Study
Author(s) -
Murray Stephen O.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of the history of the behavioral sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.216
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1520-6696
pISSN - 0022-5061
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6696(199104)27:2<130::aid-jhbs2300270203>3.0.co;2-0
Subject(s) - politics , rhetoric , work (physics) , political science , sociology , world war ii , public administration , social science , law , engineering , mechanical engineering , philosophy , linguistics
This case study of an inter‐university controversy over the publication of research from an interdisciplinary social science project on the forced migration and long‐term internment of West Coast Japanese‐Americans during World War II shows some of the difficulties of maintaining ownership of research materials. In this particular instance the junior employee was able to override his seniors' demand for control of the dissemination of research results by playing on the concerns about even appearing to suppress work for political reasons. The paper discusses conflicting norms of science and rhetorics of justification ranging from proprietary self‐interest through “good science” to “the national interest” and onto “the needs of a free society”.