Robert W. Pearson, Lawrence W. Sherman

Use and Usefulness of the Social Science

Accomplishments, Disappointments, and Promise

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Produktbeschreibung

Publishing the 600th volume of The Annals is dedicated to reflecting on how selected disciplines and fields of study have promoted their use and usefulness in advancing and informing public policy. With an impressive array of experts in their respective fields, this volume examines how anthropology, behavioral genetics, criminology, economics, international relations, sociology, psychology, and political science have advanced or strayed from that agenda.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications, Inc
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 284g
• ISBN-13: 9781412926560
• ISBN-10: 1412926564
• Artikelnr.: 21929689

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: The Achievements, Disappointments, and Promise of the Social
Sciences - Robert W. Pearson and Lawrence W. Sherman
Political Ideas and a Political Science for Policy - Kenneth Prewitt
Toward an Anthropology of Public Policy - Janine R. Wedel, Cris Shore,
Gregory Feldman, and Stacy Lathrop
The Current State of Economics: Needs Lots of Work - Barbara R. Bergmann
The Return of the Repressed: Recovering the Public Face of U.S. Sociology,
One Hundred Years On - Michael Burawov
Nature and Nurture: Genetic and Evironmental Influences on Behavior -
Robert Plomin and Kathryn Asbury
The Use and Usefulness of Psychology - Mitchell G. Ash
Enlightened Justice and Its Failures: The Use and Usefulness of
Criminology, 1751- 2005 - Lawrence W. Sherman
International Relations as a Social Science: Rigor and Relevance - Jeff
Frieden and David A. Lake
Book Review Essay: The Uneasy Partnership Between Social Science and Public
Policy - Robert W. Pearson
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