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Author : Mark A. Abramson
Publisher : National Academies
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UCAL:B4450624
Author : Assembly of Behavioral and Social Sciences (U.S.). Study Project on Social Research and Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCR:31210002920369
Author : Charles Camic,Neil Gross,Michèle Lamont
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226092096
Over the past quarter century, researchers have successfully explored the inner workings of the physical and biological sciences using a variety of social and historical lenses. Inspired by these advances, the contributors to Social Knowledge in the Making turn their attention to the social sciences, broadly construed. The result is the first comprehensive effort to study and understand the day-to-day activities involved in the creation of social-scientific and related forms of knowledge about the social world. The essays collected here tackle a range of previously unexplored questions about the practices involved in the production, assessment, and use of diverse forms of social knowledge. A stellar cast of multidisciplinary scholars addresses topics such as the changing practices of historical research, anthropological data collection, library usage, peer review, and institutional review boards. Turning to the world beyond the academy, other essays focus on global banks, survey research organizations, and national security and economic policy makers. Social Knowledge in the Making is a landmark volume for a new field of inquiry, and the bold new research agenda it proposes will be welcomed in the social science, the humanities, and a broad range of nonacademic settings.
Author : Michael Gibbons
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1994-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803977948
In this provocative and broad-ranging work, the authors argue that the ways in which knowledge - scientific, social and cultural - is produced are undergoing fundamental changes at the end of the twentieth century. They claim that these changes mark a distinct shift into a new mode of knowledge production which is replacing or reforming established institutions, disciplines, practices and policies. Identifying features of the new mode of knowledge production - reflexivity, transdisciplinarity, heterogeneity - the authors show how these features connect with the changing role of knowledge in social relations. While the knowledge produced by research and development in science and technology is accorded central concern, the
Author : Aldo Geuna
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015047604122
Of particular concern to Geuna (science and technology policy, U. of Sussex) is how the changing structure of university research funding is influencing research behavior. He considers the relationship between the allocation of funds and university scientific research productivity, and examines different aspects of European Union funding of university research. He presents empirical evidence supporting the hypothesis that tighter linkages between university and industry, which aim to increase the transfer of knowledge, may produce unintended negative effects. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Assembly of Behavioral and Social Sciences (U.S.). Study Project on Social Research and Development
Publisher : National Academies
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0309029309
Interviews with 180 federal agencies that conduct social research and development (R&D) were conducted and documents were examined to determine: (1) what types of social R&D are supported, and what levels of support are provided; (2) who defines the problems to be researched, who decides the level of support to be provided, and how investigators are selected and monitored; and (3) how potential users are involved in research decision making, and how the research results are disseminated. Major emphasis was on social R&D in the major policy areas of income security, health, early childhood, and the living environment (i.e., policy area that encompasses the patterns of growth and change in agricultural, urban, and metropolitan areas). One central insight revealed in the agency studies, all of which are summarized in this report, is that there is an enormous diversity of practices in all areas studied. In the concluding sections of the report, key conclusions, generally critical of current practices, are discussed, and a framework in which to analyze the actions of the social R&D managers is developed. (RM)
Author : HHS Evaluation Documentation Center (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000103821165
Evaluated programs conducted under HHS. Arranged according to agency hierarchy. Entries give agency sponsor, project title, report title, performer, abstract, descriptors, status, availability, and other identifying information. Subject,sponsor, program indexes.
Author : Moulio Moungbakou,Nanche Billa
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781942876915
This book addresses the epistemological, ethical and methodological challenges faced by African scholars in their research practices. The epistemological domain addresses three interrelated topics: how African university students ethnocentric choice of research topics hampers the production of knowledge; researchers adaptation of their research methods to improve validity; and the challenge of knowledge production on community museums plagued by gross inertia, irregularities, uncooperative gatekeepers and inadequate funding. The methodological domain foregrounds issues around scientific rigour, the criteria for what counts as quality research, and reporting standards. Contributors contend that the use of mixed methods provides the best scope for the effective study and evaluation of social issues. They also detail how better-funded projects tend to improve the respect of ethical standards especially as they pertain to the protection of subjects confidentiality. Self-financed researchers on the other hand tend to be less compliant, a challenge that afflict especially younger and inexperienced researchers. This volume thus contributes not only to a critical understanding of the challenges faced by social scientists in contemporary Africa, but also the prospects and mechanisms on how to improve knowledge production processes.
Author : Wiebke Keim,Ercüment Çelik,Veronika Wöhrer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317127697
An innovative contribution to debates on the internationalization and globalization of the social sciences, this book pays particular attention to their theoretical and epistemological reconfiguration in the light of postcolonial critiques and critiques of Eurocentrism. Bringing together theoretical contributions and empirical case studies from around the world, including India, the Americas, South Africa, Australia and Europe, it engages in debates concerning public sociology and explores South-South research collaborations specific to the social sciences. Contributions transcend established critiques of Eurocentrism to make space for the idea of global social sciences and truly transnational research. Thematically arranged and both international and interdisciplinary in scope, this volume reflects the different theoretical and thematic backgrounds of the contributing authors, who enter into dialogue and debate with one another in the development of a more inclusive, more representative and more theoretically relevant stage for the social sciences. A rigorous critique of the contemporary state of the social sciences as well as an attempt to find another way of doing transnational sociology, Global Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences will appeal to scholars of sociology, political science and social theory with interests in the production of social scientific knowledge, postcolonialism and transnationalism in research.
Author : HHS Policy Information Center (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 956 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Human services
ISBN : WISC:89034898866
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Education
ISBN : PSU:000068696788
Author : James M. Rogers
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1988-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822976486
Government agencies spend billions of dollars each year for policy analysis with the expectation that improved policy will follow. Although civil servants conduct some analysis themselves, more frequently they contract with research organizations to assess the probable consequences of new social policies and to answer other policy questions. Jams M. Rogers develops a theory that explains and predicts the impact of policy analysis. He illustrates his theory through welfare reform, where policy analysis is caught in political warfare and has little chance to improve actual policy. During the 1960s and 1970s over $108 million was spent on four unprecedented social scientific experiments to test the effectiveness of a major proposal to reform the welfare system. Now out of favor, the negative income tax was thn considered to be an appealing alternative to welfare. Starting in New Jersey and Pennsylvania during the Johnson administration, the experimental research continued through Carter's term and helped to keep reform proposal and research organizations alive. This book examines the results of these experiments and their effect on Carter's reform attempt—the Program for Better Jobs and Income. One of the author's main conclusions concerns the role of value conflict. If there is strong disagreement within society over the goals of policy, analysis will seldom change the minds of decision makers or influence policy. Policy analysis is more likely to influence thinking and policy if the issue involves low conflict.
Author : Richard Whitley,Jochen Gläser,Lars Engwall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199590193
Governance of the public sciences has profoundly changed since World War II, especially the funding structures, autonomy, and accountability of public research organizations and universities, and the extent to which research is steered towards societal usefulness. This book examines these developments in several countries.
Author : Ibrahim Bienvenu Mouliom Moungbakou,Robert Nanche Billa
Publisher : Spears Media Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
This book addresses the epistemological, ethical and methodological challenges faced by African scholars in their research practices. The epistemological domain addresses three interrelated topics: how African university students’ ethnocentric choice of research topics hampers the production of knowledge; researchers’ adaptation of their research methods to improve validity; and the challenge of knowledge production on community museums plagued by gross inertia, irregularities, uncooperative gatekeepers and inadequate funding. The methodological domain foregrounds issues around scientific rigour, the criteria for what counts as quality research, and reporting standards. Contributors contend that the use of mixed methods provides the best scope for the effective study and evaluation of social issues. They also detail how better-funded projects tend to improve the respect of ethical standards especially as they pertain to the protection of subjects’ confidentiality. Self-financed researchers on the other hand tend to be less compliant, a challenge that afflict especially younger and inexperienced researchers. This volume thus contributes not only to a critical understanding of the challenges faced by social scientists in contemporary Africa, but also the prospects and mechanisms on how to improve knowledge production processes.
Author : Justin Cruickshank,Ross Abbinnett
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538161418
Higher education exposes a key paradox of neoliberalism. The project of neoliberalism was said to be that of rolling back the state to liberate individuals, by replacing government bureaucracy with the free market. Rather than have the market serve individuals however, individuals were to serve the market. The marketisation ‘reforms’ in higher education, which sought to reshape knowledge production, with students investing in human capital and academics producing ‘transferable’ research, to make higher education of use to the economy, has resulted in extensive government bureaucracy and oppressive managerialist bureaucracy which is inefficient and expensive. Neoliberalism has always had authoritarian aspects and these are now coming to bear on universities. The state does not want critical and informed graduate citizens, but a hollowed out public sphere defined by consumption, willing servitude to the market and deference to state power. Attempts to reshape universities with bureaucracy are now accompanied by a culture war, attacking the production of critical knowledge. The authors in this book explore these issues and the possibilities for resistance and progressive change.