A distinguished scientific field? Pursuing resources and building institutions for engineering research in Sweden, 1890–1945

The perennial issue of the relations between science and technology and society is a backdrop to this study of material, symbolic and economic foundations of engineering science in Sweden. It analyzes three cases of institutional reform from the first half of the twentieth century that were essential to the formation of engineering research as a distinct and respected scientific field. Taking the intersection of institutional and linguistic analysis as a starting point, two intertwined processes are followed: the drawing of boundaries by different actors that delineated the new kind of research, and the struggle over resources for the institutions that could enable this research. The institutional reforms are placed in context, relating arguments by the proponents of engineering research to the politicians and university academics who were in control of various resources. It is suggested that an institutionalist perspective enunciated in terms of form and content is a productive interpretive possibility.     

文史考辨与史实求真--以苏雪林与胡适交往二则史实考证为例

在当今史界,有关现代人物研究的章大量引用口述史料或回忆性资料已较普遍,因疏于考证而出现史实失真的现象也不鲜见。本以苏雪林与胡适交往的二则史实考证为例,旨在强调研究使用回忆录性质材料时,应当注意到回忆记忆的准确度。学术研究类的论,更应建立在经过考实后的史料基础上。