Book Description
New approach demonstrating how social science can be successful, focusing on context, values, and power.
Author : Bent Flyvbjerg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 26,23 MB
Release : 2001-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521775687
New approach demonstrating how social science can be successful, focusing on context, values, and power.
Author : Steven Yearley
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 31,8 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780803986923
This volume demystifies science studies and bridges the divide between social theory and the sociology of science.
Author : Jon Beckwith
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 48,76 MB
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674020677
In 1969, Jon Beckwith and his colleagues succeeded in isolating a gene from the chromosome of a living organism. Announcing this startling achievement at a press conference, Beckwith took the opportunity to issue a public warning about the dangers of genetic engineering. Jon Beckwith's book, the story of a scientific life on the front line, traces one remarkable man's dual commitment to scientific research and social responsibility over the course of a career spanning most of the postwar history of genetics and molecular biology. A thoroughly engrossing memoir that recounts Beckwith's halting steps toward scientific triumphs--among them, the discovery of the genetic element that turns genes on--as well as his emergence as a world-class political activist, Making Genes, Making Waves is also a compelling history of the major controversies in genetics over the last thirty years. Presenting the science in easily understandable terms, Beckwith describes the dramatic changes that transformed biology between the late 1950s and our day, the growth of the radical science movement in the 1970s, and the personalities involved throughout. He brings to light the differing styles of scientists as well as the different ways in which science is presented within the scientific community and to the public at large. Ranging from the travails of Robert Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb to the Human Genome Project and recent "Science Wars," Beckwith's book provides a sweeping view of science and its social context in the latter half of the twentieth century.
Author : Bent Flyvbjerg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 18,33 MB
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107000254
A new, hands-on approach to social inquiry for social scientists who wish to make a difference to policy and practice.
Author : Charles Camic
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 22,40 MB
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226092100
Over the past quarter century, researchers have successfully explored the inner workings of the physical and biological sciences using a variety of social and historical lenses. Inspired by these advances, the contributors to Social Knowledge in the Making turn their attention to the social sciences, broadly construed. The result is the first comprehensive effort to study and understand the day-to-day activities involved in the creation of social-scientific and related forms of knowledge about the social world. The essays collected here tackle a range of previously unexplored questions about the practices involved in the production, assessment, and use of diverse forms of social knowledge. A stellar cast of multidisciplinary scholars addresses topics such as the changing practices of historical research, anthropological data collection, library usage, peer review, and institutional review boards. Turning to the world beyond the academy, other essays focus on global banks, survey research organizations, and national security and economic policy makers. Social Knowledge in the Making is a landmark volume for a new field of inquiry, and the bold new research agenda it proposes will be welcomed in the social science, the humanities, and a broad range of nonacademic settings.
Author : Serge Moscovici
Publisher : Polity
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 16,12 MB
Release : 2006-10-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN :
This fascinating book makes an important contribution to the history of the social sciences. It tells the largely hidden story of how social psychology became an international social science, vividly documenting the micro-politics of a virtually forgotten committee, the Committee on Transnational Social Psychology, whose work took place against the back-drop of some of the most momentous events of the twentieth century. Overcoming intellectual, institutional and political obstacles, including the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and the military coups in Chile or Argentine, the committee struggled to bring social psychology to global recognition, not as part of a programme of intellectual imperialism, but motivated by a mixture of intellectual philanthropy and self-interest. Few authors could tell this unique story. Serge Moscovici is undoubtedly the best-placed insider to do so, together with Ivana Markova providing a lucid, erudite and carefully documented account of the work of this remarkable group. This book will be an essential resource for any scholar interested in the history of social psychology, as well as upper-level students studying the history of the social sciences.
Author : Mark Solovey
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 32,94 MB
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0262358751
How the NSF became an important yet controversial patron for the social sciences, influencing debates over their scientific status and social relevance. In the early Cold War years, the U.S. government established the National Science Foundation (NSF), a civilian agency that soon became widely known for its dedication to supporting first-rate science. The agency's 1950 enabling legislation made no mention of the social sciences, although it included a vague reference to "other sciences." Nevertheless, as Mark Solovey shows in this book, the NSF also soon became a major--albeit controversial--source of public funding for them.
Author : Matt Grossmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 36,75 MB
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0197518990
It seems like most of what we read about the academic social sciences in the mainstream media is negative. The field is facing mounting criticism, as canonical studies fail to replicate, questionable research practices abound, and researcher social and political biases come under fire. In response to these criticisms, Matt Grossmann, in How Social Science Got Better, provides a robust defense of the current state of the social sciences. Applying insights from the philosophy, history, and sociology of science and providing new data on research trends and scholarly views, he argues that, far from crisis, social science is undergoing an unparalleled renaissance of ever-broader understanding and application. According to Grossmann, social science research today has never been more relevant, rigorous, or self-reflective because scholars have a much better idea of their blind spots and biases. He highlights how scholars now closely analyze the impact of racial, gender, geographic, methodological, political, and ideological differences on research questions; how the incentives of academia influence our research practices; and how universal human desires to avoid uncomfortable truths and easily solve problems affect our conclusions. Though misaligned incentive structures of course remain, a messy, collective deliberation across the research community has shifted us into an unprecedented age of theoretical diversity, open and connected data, and public scholarship. Grossmann's wide-ranging account of current trends will necessarily force the academy's many critics to rethink their lazy critiques and instead acknowledge the path-breaking advances occurring in the social sciences today.
Author : Carol H. Weiss
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 32,34 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231046763
Author : Alex Pentland
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 24,91 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1594205655
A landmark tour of the new science of "idea flow" outlines revolutionary insights into the mysteries of collective intelligence and social influence, explaining the virtually unlimited data sets of today's digital technologies and the considerable accuracy of information from social networks.