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The use and usefulness of the social sciences : achievements, disappointments, and promise / special editors of this volume, Robert W. Pearson [and] Lawrence W. Sherman

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Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE Publications, [2005]
Copyright Date
©2005
Physical Description
188 pages ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators
Pearson, R. W. (Robert W.), Sherman, Lawrence W., and American Academy of Political and Social Science

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Contents
Preface : the achievements, frustrations, 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...[et. al.] -- 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 Burawoy -- Nature and nurture : genetic and environmental influences on behavior / Robert Plomin and Kathryn Asbury -- The uses and usefulness of psychology / Mitchell G. Ash -- The use and usefulness of criminology, 1751-2005 ; enlightened justice and its failures / Lawrence W. Sherman -- International relations as a social science : rigor and relevance / Jeffry A. Frieden and David A. Lake -- Book review essay : the uneasy partnership between social science and public policy / Robert W. Pearson -- Quick read synopsis : The use and usefulness of the social sciences : achievements, disappointments, and promise.
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1412926564 (paper)
1412926556 (cloth)
Note
"July 2005."
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Includes bibliographical references.
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