How social science got better : overcoming bias with more evidence, diversity, and self-reflection / Matt Grossmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grossmann, Matthew, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Research.

Social sciences.

Social sciences--Methodology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

In How Social Science Got Better, Matt Grossmann provides a robust defense of the current state of the social sciences. He focuses in particular on the salutary innovations in research methods and the broadening of subject matter that academics deem worthy of inquiry. He offers a wide-ranging account of current research trends that will necessarily force the academy's many critics to rethink their lazy critiques and instead acknowledge the path- breaking advances in knowledge occurring in the social sciences today.

Contents:

Social science biases and collective knowledge

Reform and progress

The quiet resolution of the science wars

Me-search all the way down

American academia: the main setting for social science

Opportunities and constraints of the disciplines

Multiple levels of analysis and time scales

All history and policy

Motivations and constraints of a practical orientation

popularization and consilience.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-751899-0

0-19-751900-8

0-19-751898-2

OCLC:

1243261972