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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 | : 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.
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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 | : Mark Solovey |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2020-07-07 |
Genre | : 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 | : 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.
Author | : Carol H. Weiss |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780231046763 |
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.