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Author | : Bent Flyvbjerg |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2001-01-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780521775687 |
New approach demonstrating how social science can be successful, focusing on context, values, and power.
Author | : Kathleen Anne Wellman |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780806135021 |
Between 1633 and 1642, the French physician and philanthropist Théophraste Renaudot sponsored a series of public conferences in Paris. These conferences offered an open forum for wide-ranging discussions of a variety of topics, including science, medicine, gender, politics, and ethics. No matter the topic, participants consistently used scientific reasoning as a new standard of evidence. The conferences thus recast the rhetorical traditions of the Renaissance and prefigured the social sciences of the Enlightenment. They provide a candid snapshot of intellectual life at the dawn of the scientific revolution in France. In Making Science Social, Kathleen Wellman uses the published conference proceedings to develop a broadly conceived, revisionist interpretation of the intellectual history of seventeenth-century France and of the roots of modern culture and science. Volume 6 in the Series for Science and Culture
Author | : Steven Yearley |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : 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 |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2009-07-01 |
Genre | : 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 | : Charles Camic |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2012-07-24 |
Genre | : 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 | : Bent Flyvbjerg |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2012-04-19 |
Genre | : 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 | : |
Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : |
Genre | : 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 | : OECD |
Publisher | : OECD Publishing |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2001-01-31 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9264189815 |
This conference proceedings examines the role social sciences can play in developing sound policy.
Author | : Anol Bhattacherjee |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2012-04-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781475146127 |
This book is designed to introduce doctoral and graduate students to the process of conducting scientific research in the social sciences, business, education, public health, and related disciplines. It is a one-stop, comprehensive, and compact source for foundational concepts in behavioral research, and can serve as a stand-alone text or as a supplement to research readings in any doctoral seminar or research methods class. This book is currently used as a research text at universities on six continents and will shortly be available in nine different languages.
Author | : Alex Pentland |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : 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.