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An investigation of 178 Austrian social science research organizations established from before 1945 to 1973, & the types of research projects they carried out between 1970 & 1974 included about 700 projects. The major source of data was a government compilation & the areas included: psychology, pedagogy, sociology, political science, economics, industrial management, town-planning, regional research, or a combination of fields. Both the number & contents of projects are analyzed to test several propositions. Social science research in Austria today is the expression of a certain type of state intervention policy which seeks legitimacy by claiming to be a policy of liberal reform. It is thus not directly concerned with serving the interests of capital, as other forms of research are, but its main use is to solve the government's problems & legitimize its action. This has brought about a substantial increase in the direction of research toward specific aims & its orientation toward practical problem-solving, partly at the expense of purely descriptive-analytical work. The distribution of projects among different types of institutes (ie, U, public, & private) is dictated by various factors, including differences in the importance placed upon problem-solving as compared with legitimation on the part of clients. Since a policy of stability has taken over from the liberal reformist policy owing to increasing difficulties in the full use of capital, the increased need for legitimation can no longer be satisfied by research possessing liberal traits, which is being relegated to the background by the very practical needs of control. 6 Tables. Modified Author's Summary.

Excerpts from their forthcoming book of the same title.

The result of our digression is, incidentally, that the production of the means of communication, of the physical conditions of circulation, is put into the category of the production of fixed capital, and hence does not constitute a special case. Meanwhile, and incidentally, there opened up for us the prospect, which cannot be sharply defined yet at this point, of a specific relation of capital to the communal, general conditions of social production, as distinct from the conditions of a particular capital and its particular production process (Marx, edn 1973, 533).