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Title:
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USABLE SOCIAL SCIENCE
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Neil J. Smelser, John Shelton Reed |
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Hardback |
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£71.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
0520273567 |
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9780520273566 |
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS |
Pub. date: |
15 October, 2012 |
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416 |
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Presenting substantive social science knowledge and indicating its relevance and applicability to decision-making, problem-solving and policy-making, this title looks at the big picture of why society at large demands and needs social-science knowledge, and how the academy actually supplies relevant knowledge. |
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This volume is a one-of-a-kind contribution to applied social science and the product of a long collaboration between an established, interdisciplinary sociologist and a successful banking executive. Together, Neil Smelser and John Reed use a straightforward approach to presenting substantive social science knowledge and indicate its relevance and applicability to decision-making, problem-solving and policy-making. Among the areas presented are space-and-time coordinates of social life; cognition and bias; group and network effects; the role of sanctions; organizational dynamics; and macro-changes associated with economic development. Finally, the authors look at the big picture of why society at large demands and needs social-science knowledge, and how the academy actually supplies relevant knowledge. |
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US |
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University of California Press |
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