Inquiry and change : the troubled attempt to understand and shape society /

Lindblom examines how ordinary citizens in a democratic society go about gathering facts and grapple with social and political problems. He contends that ignorance, peer pressure, illiteracy and the use of media for propaganda purposes deter most citizens from the kinds of inquiry necessary for rati...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lindblom, Charles E., 1917-2018
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©1990.
Temas:
Social problems.
Social sciences > Methodology.
Social scientists.
Social Problems
Problèmes sociaux.
Sciences sociales > Méthodologie.
Spécialistes des sciences sociales.
social issues.
social scientists.
71.60 social problems and social conflicts: general.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Soziale Probleme
Sozialwissenschaften
Sociale problemen.
Probleemoplossing.
Gesellschaft
Sozialer Konflikt
Soziologie
Theorie
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Knowledge and social problems
  • Volitions
  • Probing
  • Inquiry, imposition, and partisanship
  • Impaired probing
  • Elite and other advantaged sources of impairing influences
  • Contemporary elites
  • Convergences as evidence of impairment
  • What can social scientists do?
  • Professional dependence on lay probing
  • Professional help for lay probing
  • Professional impairment
  • Scientific society and self-guiding society
  • Multiplism, pluralism, and mutual adjustment
  • Some questions about professional inquiry for a self-guiding society
  • Reducing impairment.

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