The social reality of scientific myth : science and social change.

Foreword, by K.H. Silvert

Postulations : Science and institutional change, by C.H. Hamburg. War, science, and social change, by L. Morton. Language rationalization and scientific progress, by C.F. Gallagher

Case studies : Science and politics in Brazil; background of the 1967 debate on nuclear energy policy, by J.W. Rowe. Some problems of science education in the developing countries of Africa, by N. DeWitt. Technological growth and scientific lag; Iran, by E.A. Bayne. Prerequisites, receptivity, and change; government and the development of science in Japan, by F.R. Lockheimer. The policy of Russia and Soviet science; a century of continuity and change, by N. DeWitt. Science and social change; politics and the organization of science, by C.H.G. Oldham

Conclusions, by K.H. Silvert