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The use and usefulness of the social sciences : achievements, disappointments, and promise / special editors of this volume, Robert W. Pearson [and] Lawrence W. Sherman.
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science ; v. 600.
- The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 0002-7162 ; v. 600
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social sciences--United States--History.
- Social sciences.
- Social scientists.
- Political planning.
- Methodology.
- History.
- United States.
- Social sciences--Methodology.
- Political planning--United States--History.
- Political planning--Methodology.
- Social scientists--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 188 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE Publications, [2005]
- Contents:
- Preface : the achievements, frustrations, and promise of the social sciences / Robert W. Pearson and Lawrence W. Sherman
- Political ideas and a political science for policy / Kenneth Prewitt
- Toward an anthropology of public policy / Janine R. Wedel...[et. al.]
- The current state of economics : needs lots of work / Barbara R. Bergmann
- The return of the repressed : recovering the public face of U.S. sociology, one hundred years on / Michael Burawoy
- Nature and nurture : genetic and environmental influences on behavior / Robert Plomin and Kathryn Asbury
- The uses and usefulness of psychology / Mitchell G. Ash
- The use and usefulness of criminology, 1751-2005 ; enlightened justice and its failures / Lawrence W. Sherman
- International relations as a social science : rigor and relevance / Jeffry A. Frieden and David A. Lake
- Book review essay : the uneasy partnership between social science and public policy / Robert W. Pearson
- Quick read synopsis : The use and usefulness of the social sciences : achievements, disappointments, and promise.
- Notes:
- "July 2005."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1412926564
- 1412926556
- OCLC:
- 60756631
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