Realizing Social Science Knowledge: The Political Realization of Social Science Knowledge and Research: Toward New Scenarios

✍ Scribed by XY. Holzner, XY. Knorr, XY. Strasser

• Publisher: Physica-Verlag HD
• Year: 1983
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 324
• Series: Institut für Höhere Studien - Institute for Advanced Studies IHS-Studies No. 3
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages 1-8
Introduction (B. Holzner, K. D. Knorr, H. Strasser)....Pages 9-11
In Memoriam Paul F. Lazarsfeld Paul F. Lazarsfeld and the Institutionalization of Empirical Social Research (P. Neurath)....Pages 13-26
Front Matter ....Pages 27-27
Scientific Explanation and Human Emancipation (R. Bhaskar)....Pages 29-51
Objectivity and Endurance: On Some Evaluative Criteria for Social Science Knowledge (R. Reichardt)....Pages 52-63
Some Issues in the Real Use of Science (J. O’Neill)....Pages 64-70
Front Matter ....Pages 71-71
Accounts and Action: The Logic(s) of Social Science and Pragmatic Knowledge (Nico Steht, W. Baldamus)....Pages 73-79
The Emergence of Combat Anthropology in France: A Study in the Production and Utilization of Social Science Knowledge (Michael Hammond)....Pages 79-92
Social Knowledge for Social Policy (Samuel Z. Klausner)....Pages 93-121
Front Matter ....Pages 163-163
Sociology — Decyphering “Zeitgeist”, Creating Consciousness or Cooperating to “Solve Problems”? (Leopold Rosenmayr)....Pages 125-146
Beyond Figure-Ground and Context (Marc T. De Mey)....Pages 147-157
Social Science and Practical Knowledge: Toward New Paradigms (Marina Fischer-Kowalski)....Pages 158-161
Front Matter ....Pages 163-163
Research in the Service of Social Reform: The Politics of Designing Systems of Knowledge Production and Use (Evelyn M. Fisher)....Pages 165-178
Conceptions of Science (J. M. Ziman)....Pages 179-196
Societal Development and Social Research (Hermann Strasser)....Pages 197-198
Front Matter ....Pages 199-199
Three Terms in Search of Reconceptualization: Knowledge, Utilization, and Decision-Making (Carol H. Weiss)....Pages 201-219
Making, Relaying, and Using Knowledge (Robert F. Rich)....Pages 220-235
Construing Knowledge Use (Gerald Zaltman)....Pages 236-251
Front Matter ....Pages 253-253
Knowledge Conversion and Utilization (Nathan Caplan)....Pages 255-264
Implementation Structures: A New Unit of Administrative Analysis (Benny Hjern, David O. Porter)....Pages 265-277
Front Matter ....Pages 279-279
The Dissemination and Use of Educational R & D in the United States: An Analysis of Recent Federal Attempts to Improve Educational Practice (Michael B. Kane, A. Thel Kocher)....Pages 281-294
Use of Social Science Knowledge and Data in Public Policy Making: The Deliberations on the Compensatory Educational Policy by U.S. Congress (Vijai P. Singh)....Pages 295-305
Knowledge Utilization and State Agencies: Some Remarks (Kurt W. Rothschild)....Pages 306-308
Front Matter ....Pages 309-309
The Nature of Information Utilization in Local Organizations (Judith K. Larsen)....Pages 311-326
The Utilization of Social Science Knowledge in Studying Technology and Society: The Case of the Accident at Three Mile Island (David L. Sills)....Pages 327-336
Back Matter ....Pages 337-337

✦ Subjects

Economics; Economics, general