Author: Matt Grossmann
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197518974
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
In How Social Science Got Better, Matt Grossmann provides a robust defense of the current state of the social sciences. He focuses in particular on the salutary innovations in research methods and the broadening of subject matter that academics deem worthy of inquiry. He offers a wide-ranging account of current research trends that will necessarily force the academy's many critics to rethink their lazy critiques and instead acknowledge the path- breakingadvances in knowledge occurring in the social sciences today.
Author: Matt Grossmann
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197518974
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
In How Social Science Got Better, Matt Grossmann provides a robust defense of the current state of the social sciences. He focuses in particular on the salutary innovations in research methods and the broadening of subject matter that academics deem worthy of inquiry. He offers a wide-ranging account of current research trends that will necessarily force the academy's many critics to rethink their lazy critiques and instead acknowledge the path- breakingadvances in knowledge occurring in the social sciences today.
Author: Matt Grossmann
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197518990
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
It seems like most of what we read about the academic social sciences in the mainstream media is negative. The field is facing mounting criticism, as canonical studies fail to replicate, questionable research practices abound, and researcher social and political biases come under fire. In response to these criticisms, Matt Grossmann, in How Social Science Got Better, provides a robust defense of the current state of the social sciences. Applying insights from the philosophy, history, and sociology of science and providing new data on research trends and scholarly views, he argues that, far from crisis, social science is undergoing an unparalleled renaissance of ever-broader understanding and application. According to Grossmann, social science research today has never been more relevant, rigorous, or self-reflective because scholars have a much better idea of their blind spots and biases. He highlights how scholars now closely analyze the impact of racial, gender, geographic, methodological, political, and ideological differences on research questions; how the incentives of academia influence our research practices; and how universal human desires to avoid uncomfortable truths and easily solve problems affect our conclusions. Though misaligned incentive structures of course remain, a messy, collective deliberation across the research community has shifted us into an unprecedented age of theoretical diversity, open and connected data, and public scholarship. Grossmann's wide-ranging account of current trends will necessarily force the academy's many critics to rethink their lazy critiques and instead acknowledge the path-breaking advances occurring in the social sciences today.
Author: Associate Professor of Political Science Matt Grossmann
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780197519004
Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
"Social science research is facing mounting criticism, as canonical studies fail to replicate, questionable research practices abound, and researcher social and political biases come under fire. Far from crisis, however, social science is undergoing an unparalleled renaissance of ever-broader and deeper understanding and application-made possible by close attention to criticism of our biases and open public engagement. Wars between scientists and their humanist critics, methodological disputes over statistical practice and qualitative research, and disciplinary battles over grand theories of human nature have all quietly died down as new generations of scholars have integrated the insights of multiple sides. Rather than deny that researcher biases affect results, scholars now closely analyze how our racial, gender, geographic, methodological, political, and ideological differences impact our research questions, how the incentives of academia influence our research practices, and how universal human desires to avoid uncomfortable truths and easily solve problems affect our conclusions. To be sure, misaligned incentive structures remain, but a messy, collective deliberation across the research community is boosting self-knowledge and improving practice. Ours is an unprecedented age of theoretical diversity, open and connected data, and public scholarship. How Social Science Got Better documents and explains recent transformations, crediting both internal and public critics for strengthening social science. Applying insights from the philosophy, history, and sociology of science and providing new data on trends in social science research and scholarly views, it demonstrates that social science has never been more relevant, rigorous, or self-reflective"--
Author: Harry F. Dahms
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1849505381
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Highlights the problematic nature of mainstream perspectives, and the growing need to reaffirm how the specific kind of critique the early Frankfurt School theorists advocated is not less, but far more important today. This book also includes chapters that offer a broad and diverse look at social science and critical theory.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Government Research
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 809
Book Description
Author: Fred R. Harris
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412834452
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Author: Byrne, David
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1847424503
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Social research is certainly engaged in the construction of evidence, but it also plays a crucial role in a range of other governance processes. All of these processes are dealt with in this book.
Author: National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The volume for 1886 contains the proceedings of the "Conference on temperance legislation, London, 1886."
Author: Adam F. Simon
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1442209348
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Today's politics features a wealth of public opinion polling, but at the cost of suspicion and skepticism. Using recent, hot-button issues as case studies, Adam Simon discusses the science of polling in today's politics, laying the fundamentals of public opinion research, and advocating that poll results meet the standard for mass informed consent and should play a larger role. Mass Informed Consent will be of special interest to students of public opinion, political behavior, media and politics, interest group politics, and political communication
Author: David M. Levy
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472089055
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A shocking account of how economics became known as the dismal science
