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Title:
Usable social science
Author:
Smelser, Neil J.
ISBN:
9780520954144

9786613958839

9781283646338
Publication Information:
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (ix, 423 pages)
Abstract:
"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."-- Provided by publisher.
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