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Author | : Neil J. Smelser |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2012-10-15 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0520273567 |
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"Usable Social Science represents a remarkable collaboration between Neil J. Smelser, one of America’s most distinguished sociologists, and John Reed, a highly successful member of corporate America. Together, they accomplish an even more remarkable feat of making accumulated social science knowledge accessible to non-academics while, at the same time, making an academic contribution to the social sciences by reviewing the history, accumulated findings, and conceptual approaches in key areas of specialization in sociology and elsewhere in the social sciences."—Jonathan H. Turner, University Professor & Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of California, Riverside. “This book is an ambitious project to provide the public with a review of the available and practicable knowledge for decision-making people (and who is not that today?) that the social sciences have produced over the last 250 years or so. Typically, such efforts are bound to fail. But this project is a full success, keeping its promise to present knowledge in an understandable and exciting way. The language is charming and the elegant prose is the product of a fluent, transparent style. In short: a must read!”—Hans-Peter Mueller, Professor of sociology, Humboldt-University of Berlin.
Author | : Sterling Professor of Economics and Political Science Charles E Lindblom |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1979-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780300023367 |
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The problem that gives rise to this book is dissatisfaction with social science and social research as instruments of social problem solving. Policy makers and other practical problem solvers frequently voice disappointment with what they are offered. And many social scientists and social researchers think they should be more drawn upon, more useful, and more influential. Out of the discontent have come numerous diagnoses and prescriptions. This thoughtful contribution to the discussion provides an agenda of basic questions that should be asked and answered by those who are concerned about the impact of social science and research on real life problems. In general, Cohen and Lindblom believe that social scientists are crippled by a misunderstanding of their own trade, and they suggest that the tools of their trade be applied to the trade itself. Social scientists do not always fully appreciate that professional social inquiry is only one of several ways of solving a problem. They are also often engaged in a mistaken pursuit of authoritativeness, not recognizing that their contribution can never be more than a partial one. Cohen and Lindblom suggest that they reexamine their criteria for selecting subjects for research, study their tactics as compared to those of policy makers, and consider more carefully their role in relation to other routes to problem solving. To stimulate further inquiry into these fundamental issues, they also provide a comprehensive bibliography.
Author | : Dietrich Rueschemeyer |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2009-08-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1400830672 |
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The project of twentieth-century sociology and political science--to create predictive scientific theory--resulted in few full-scale theories that can be taken off the shelf and successfully applied to empirical puzzles. Yet focused "theory frames" that formulate problems and point to relevant causal factors and conditions have produced vibrant, insightful, and analytically oriented empirical research. While theory frames alone cannot offer explanation or prediction, they guide empirical theory formation and give direction to inferences from empirical evidence. They are also responsible for much of the progress in the social sciences. In Usable Theory, distinguished sociologist Dietrich Rueschemeyer shows graduate students and researchers how to construct theory frames and use them to develop valid empirical hypotheses in the course of empirical social and political research. Combining new ideas as well as analytic tools derived from classic and recent theoretical traditions, the book enlarges the rationalist model of action by focusing on knowledge, norms, preferences, and emotions, and it discusses larger social formations that shape elementary forms of action. Throughout, Usable Theory seeks to mobilize the implicit theoretical social knowledge used in everyday life. Offers tools for theory building in social and political research Complements the rationalist model of action with discussions of knowledge, norms, preferences, and emotions Relates theoretical ideas to problems of methodology Situates elementary forms of action in relation to larger formations Combines new ideas with themes from classic and more recent theories
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Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : National parks and reserves |
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Author | : Baldwin Lee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Social problems |
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Author | : Irving Louis Horowitz |
Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 776 |
Release | : 1981-07-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780803913158 |
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Author | : Jorge Frascara |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2002-04-25 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0203301307 |
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The social sciences have a distinctive contribution to make to the understanding and handling of design issues, both in product and systems design and in the design of the built environment. The role of cognitive psychology, particularly ergonomics, to the design process has traditionally been well appreciated. Because it provides important insight
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Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Conservation of natural resources |
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Author | : Granville Stanley Hall |
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Total Pages | : 638 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Psychology |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Homeland Security |
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Total Pages | : 930 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : National security |
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