ArgumentMost social scientists today think of data sharing as an ethical imperative essential to making social science more transparent, verifiable, and replicable. But what moved the architects of some of the U.S.’s first university-based social scientific research institutions, the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research (ISR), and its spin-off, the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), to share their data? Relying primarily on archived records, unpublished personal papers, and oral histories, I show that Angus Campbell, Warren Miller, Philip Converse, and others understood sharing data not as an ethical imperative intrinsic to social science but as a useful means to the diverse ends of financial stability, scholarly and institutional autonomy, and epistemological reproduction. I conclude that data sharing must be evaluated not only on the basis of the scientific ideals its supporters affirm, but also on the professional objectives it serves.

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他们为什么分享：恢复分享社会科学数据的早期论据

论点当今，大多数社会科学家认为数据共享是使社会科学更加透明、可验证和可复制的必要道德要求。但是，是什么让美国首批以大学为基础的社会科学研究机构——密歇根大学社会研究所 (ISR) 及其衍生机构——大学间政治与社会研究联盟 (ICPSR) 的建筑师们感动了，分享他们的数据？主要依靠存档记录、未发表的个人论文和口述历史，我表明安格斯·坎贝尔、沃伦·米勒、菲利普·康弗斯和其他人认为共享数据不是社会科学固有的道德要求，而是实现不同目的的有用手段。金融稳定、学术和机构自主权以及认识论再生产。