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

Publication Info. Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE Publications, [2005]
©2005

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Description 188 pages ; 24 cm.
Series The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 0002-7162 ; v. 600
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science ; v. 600.
Note "July 2005."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Subject Social sciences -- United States -- History.
Social sciences.
United States.
History.
Social sciences -- Methodology.
Social sciences -- Methodology.
Political planning -- United States -- History.
Political planning.
Political planning -- Methodology.
Methodology.
Social scientists -- United States.
Social scientists.
Added Author Pearson, R. W. (Robert W.)
Sherman, Lawrence W.
American Academy of Political and Social Science.
ISBN 1412926564 paper
1412926556 cloth