Usable Social Science

Usable Social Science
ISBN-10
0520273567
ISBN-13
9780520273566
Category
Education
Pages
423
Language
English
Published
2012
Publisher
Univ of California Press
Authors
Neil J. Smelser, John Shepard Reed

Description

"Usable Social Science represents a remarkable collaboration between Neil J. Smelser, one of America's most distinguished sociologists, and John Reed, a highly successful member of corporate America. Together, they accomplish an even more remarkable feat of making accumulated social science knowledge accessible to non-academics while, at the same time, making an academic contribution to the social sciences by reviewing the history, accumulated findings, and conceptual approaches in key areas of specialization in sociology and elsewhere in the social sciences."--Jonathan H. Turner, University Professor & Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of California, Riverside. "This book is an ambitious project to provide the public with a review of the available and practicable knowledge for decision-making people (and who is not that today?) that the social sciences have produced over the last 250 years or so. Typically, such efforts are bound to fail. But this project is a full success, keeping its promise to present knowledge in an understandable and exciting way. The language is charming and the elegant prose is the product of a fluent, transparent style. In short: a must read!"--Hans-Peter Mueller, Professor of sociology, Humboldt-University Berlin.

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