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 : 17,45 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 : 18,4 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 : Sheila Jasanoff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 36,61 MB
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134328338
Notes on contributors Acknowledgements 1. The Idiom of Co-production Sheila Jasanoff 2. Ordering Knowledge, Ordering Society Sheila Jasanoff 3. Climate Science and the Making of a Global Political Order Clark A. Miller 4. Co-producing CITES and the African Elephant Charis Thompson 5. Knowledge and Political Order in the European Environment Agency Claire Waterton and Brian Wynne 6. Plants, Power and Development: Founding the Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies, 1880-1914 William K. Storey 7. Mapping Systems and Moral Order: Constituting property in genome laboratories Stephen Hilgartner 8. Patients and Scientists in French Muscular Dystrophy Research Vololona Rabeharisoa and Michel Callon 9. Circumscribing Expertise: Membership categories in courtroom testimony Michael Lynch 10. The Science of Merit and the Merit of Science: Mental order and social order in early twentieth-century France and America John Carson 11. Mysteries of State, Mysteries of Nature: Authority, knowledge and expertise in the seventeenth century Peter Dear 12. Reconstructing Sociotechnical Order: Vannevar Bush and US science policy Michael Aaron Dennis 13. Science and the Political Imagination in Contemporary Democracies Yaron Ezrah 14. Afterword Sheila Jasanoff References Index
Author : Charles Camic
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 25,56 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 : Isabelle Chambost
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 46,52 MB
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1351016091
Using a variety of theoretical frameworks drawn from the social sciences, the contributions in this edited collection offer a critical perspective on the dominant paradigms used in contemporary financial activities. Through a detailed study of the organisation and functioning of financial intermediaries and institutions, the contributors to this volume analyse ‘finance in the making’, by shedding light on the structuring of banking and financial systems, on their capacity to prescribe action and control, on their modes of regulation and, more generally, on the process of financialisation. Contributions presented in this volume have been written by authors working within the ‘social studies of finance’ tradition, a research programme that emerged twenty years ago, with the aim of addressing a diversity of financial fieldworks and related theoretical questions. This book, therefore, sheds light on different areas that are representative of contemporary financial realities. Specifically, it first studies the work of financial employees: traders, salespeople, investment managers, financial analysts, investment consultants, etc. but also provides an analysis of a range of financial instruments: financial schemes and contracts, financial derivatives, socially responsible investment funds, as well as market rules and regulations. Finally, it puts into perspective the organisations contributing to this financial reality: those developing and selling financial services (retail banks, brokerage houses, asset management firms, private equity firms, etc.), and also those contributing to the regulation of such activities (banking regulators, financial market authorities, credit rating agencies, the State, to name a few). Each text can be read without any specific knowledge of finance; the book is thus addressed to anyone willing to better understand the intricacies of contemporary financial realities.
Author :
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,9 MB
Release :
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781412834469
Robert Rich reports the results of the Continuous National Survey (CNS), an administrative experiment with a two-year lifespan, designed to facilitate the use of research data by public officials in federal agencies.
Author : Serge Moscovici
Publisher : Polity
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 22,34 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 : Carol H. Weiss
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 35,87 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231046763
Author : Stoker, Gerry
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 35,24 MB
Release : 2016-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1447329376
This book gathers an expert group of social scientists to showcase emerging forms of analysis and evaluation for public policy analysis. Each chapter highlights a different method or approach, putting it in context and highlighting its key features before illustrating its application and potential value to policy makers. Aimed at upper-level undergraduates in public policy and social work, it also has much to offer policy makers and practitioners themselves.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 12,80 MB
Release : 2001-01-31
Category :
ISBN : 9264189815
This conference proceedings examines the role social sciences can play in developing sound policy.