Use And Usefulness of the Social Sciences - Achievements, Disappointments, And Promise

Klappentext Publishing the 600th volume of The Annals is dedicated to reflecting on how selected disciplines and fields of study have promoted their use and usefulness in advancing and informing public policy. With an impressive array of experts in their respective fields, this volume examines how anthropology, behavioral genetics, criminology, economics, international relations, sociology, psychology, and political science have advanced or strayed from that agenda. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: The Achievements, Disappointments, and Promise of the Social Sciences - Robert W. Pearson and Lawrence W. Sherman Political Ideas and a Political Science for Policy - Kenneth Prewitt Toward an Anthropology of Public Policy - Janine R. Wedel, Cris Shore, Gregory Feldman, and Stacy Lathrop The Current State of Economics: Needs Lots of Work - Barbara R. Bergmann The Return of the Repressed: Recovering the Public Face of U.S. Sociology, One Hundred Years On - Michael Burawov Nature and Nurture: Genetic and Evironmental Influences on Behavior - Robert Plomin and Kathryn Asbury The Use and Usefulness of Psychology - Mitchell G. Ash Enlightened Justice and Its Failures: The Use and Usefulness of Criminology, 1751- 2005 - Lawrence W. Sherman International Relations as a Social Science: Rigor and Relevance - Jeff Frieden and David A. Lake Book Review Essay: The Uneasy Partnership Between Social Science and Public Policy - Robert W. Pearson Quick Read Synopsis

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• Authors: Robert W. Pearson, Lawrence W. Sherman, Lawrence W. (EDT)/ Pearson Sherman
• Assisted by: Robert W. Pearson (Editor), Lawrence W. Sherman (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.07.2005
• EAN: 9781412926560
• ISBN: 978-1-4129-2656-0
• No. of pages: 188
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 6 mm
• Series: Annals of the American Academy; Annals of the American Academy
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories