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The public value of the social sciences : an interpretive essay /

What is the purpose of social science? How can social science make itself relevant to the intractable problems facing humanity in the twenty-first century? The social sciences are under threat from two main sources. One is external, reflected in a global university crisis that imposes the marketizat...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brewer, John D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.
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520 |a What is the purpose of social science? How can social science make itself relevant to the intractable problems facing humanity in the twenty-first century? The social sciences are under threat from two main sources. One is external, reflected in a global university crisis that imposes the marketization of higher education on the ancient practice of scholarship. The other, internal threat is social science's withdrawal from publicly-engaged teaching and research into the protective bunker of disciplinarity. 
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505 0 |a Cover-Page -- Half-Title -- Title -- Series -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Author -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Why write this book? -- Why an interpretative essay? -- What is the public value of the social sciences? -- What is the organization of this essay? -- 1 What is Social Science? -- Introduction -- What is 'social' about social science? -- What is 'science' about social science? -- So what is social science? -- Disciplinarity and disciplinary closure in the social sciences -- Conclusion 
505 8 |a 2 What is the Scale and Standing of British Social Science? -- Introduction -- What is the scale of the social sciences in Britain? -- What is the standing of British social science? -- Where have all the giants gone? -- What is the general impact of the social sciences? -- Conclusion -- 3 What is the Threat Faced by the Social Sciences? -- Introduction -- What is the impact of impact? -- The march of the market -- Conclusion -- 4 What is the Public Value of Social Science? -- Introduction -- The feasibility of impact in social science research 
505 8 |a The undesirability of impact in the social sciences -- From the public impact to the public value of social science -- What is value? -- A cautionary note -- So what is the public value of social science? -- Conclusion -- 5 What is the New Public Social Science? -- Introduction -- What is traditional social science? -- So what is the new public social science? -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: A Social Science for the Twenty-First Century? -- Further Reading and Select Bibliography -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- Index 
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