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Usable Social Science by Smelser, Neil J.; Reed, John Shepard is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Usable Social Science about?

"This volume is a one-of-a-kind contribution to applied social science and the product of a long collaboration between an established, interdisciplinary sociologist and a successful banking executive. Together, Neil Smelser and John Reed use a straightforward approach to presenting substantive social science knowledge and indicate its relevance and applicability to decision-making, problem-solving and policy-making. Among the areas presented are space-and-time coordinates of social life; cognition and bias; group and network effects; the role of sanctions; organizational dynamics; and macro-changes associated with economic development. Finally, the authors look at the big picture of why society at large demands and needs social-science knowledge, and how the academy actually supplies relevant knowledge."-- Read more... Abstract: Presenting substantive social science knowledge and indicating its relevance and applicability to decision-making, problem-solving and policy-making, this title looks at the big picture of why society at large demands and needs social-science knowledge, and how the academy actually supplies relevant knowledge.

Who reads Usable Social Science?

Author

Smelser, Neil J.; Reed, John Shepard

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520954144

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Education, Science, Sociology