Open AccessFunding Bodies and Late Modern Science
Author(s) -
Noortje Jacobs,
Pieter Huistra
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal for history, culture and modernity
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2666-6529
pISSN - 2213-0624
DOI - 10.18352/hcm.584
Subject(s) - rationalization (economics) , institution , late 19th century , scientific progress , political science , sociology , social science , epistemology , law , aesthetics , art , period (music) , philosophy
Throughout the twentieth century, funding bodies have become a dominant force in scientific practice, influencing the success of certain types of research as well as certain types of researchers. As a late modern institution, they are part of a process of rationalization and planning in science. At the same time, however, funding bodies draw upon resources such as trust and familiarity that are usually identified as premodern.