Contenidos:Introduction - PART I: THE INTERNALIZATION OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES - The impact of the developing world on U.S. social-science theory and methodology / Kenneth Prewitt -- The limits of development research / Paul Streeten -- Agencies of diffusion: a case study of the Rockefeller Foundation / Laurence D. Stifel, Ralph K. Davidson y James S. Coleman - PART II: THE STATE OF ART: SELECTED REGIONAL SURVEYS - Hybrids in native soil: the social sciences in Southeast Asia / Warren F. Ilchman -- Social
science and the modernization of China / Huan Xiang -- The idea of social science in East Africa: an aspect of the development of higher education / David Court -- Profile of the social sciences in West Africa / Akin L. Mabogunje -- The economic sciences in Latin America /
Eduardo Venezian -- Social sciences in the periphery:
perspectives on the latin american case / Jorge Baldn - PART III: SOCIAL SCIENCES AND PUBLIC POLICY: PROBLEMS IN APPLICATION - Application of the social sciences to public policies: producers, consumers, and mechanisms of mediation / Edgardo Boeninger -- Social-science research and public policy in India / Myron Weiner -- Scholarship
and contract research: the ecology of social science in
Kenya and Tanzania / David Court -- Social sciences in developing areas: an annotated bibliography of selected
periodical literature, 1970-1980 / Elizabeth J. Brooks