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1 online resource |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Social sciences -- Study and teaching.
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Social values.
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Social Values
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Methodology.
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Social sciences -- Study and teaching
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Social values
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781780931784 |
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1780931786 |
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9781472545121 |
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1472545125 |
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9781780935225 |
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1780935226 |
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9781780931746 |
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1780931743 |
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9781780931777 |
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1780931778 |
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