| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 218 pages |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Title Page; Comments on this book; Copyright Page; Contents; About the Author; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; Why write this book?; Why an interpretative essay?; What is the public value of the social sciences?; What is the organization of this essay?; Chapter 1 What is Social Science?; Introduction; What is 'social' about social science?; What is 'science' about social science?; So what is social science?; Disciplinarity and disciplinary closure in the social sciences; Conclusion; Chapter 2 What is the Scale and Standing of British Social Science?; Introduction. |
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What is the scale of the social sciences in Britain?What is the standing of British social science?; Where have all the giants gone?; What is the general impact of the social sciences?; Conclusion; Chapter 3 What is the Threat Faced by the Social Sciences?; Introduction; What is the impact of impact?; The march of the market; Conclusion; Chapter 4 What is the Public Value of Social Science?; Introduction; The feasibility of impact in social science research; The undesirability of impact in the social sciences; From the public impact to the public value of social science; What is value? |
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A cautionary noteSo what is the public value of social science?; Conclusion; Chapter 5 What is the New Public Social Science?; Introduction; What is traditional social science?; So what is the new public social science?; Conclusion; Conclusion: A Social Science for the Twenty-First Century?; Further Reading and Select Bibliography; Further reading; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
What is the purpose of social science? How can social science make itself relevant to the intractable problems facing humanity in the twenty-first century? The social sciences are under threat from two main sources. One is external, reflected in a global university crisis that imposes the marketization of higher education on the ancient practice of scholarship. The other, internal threat is social science's withdrawal from publicly-engaged teaching and research into the protective bunker of disciplinarity. In articulating a vision for the public role of social science in the twenty-first centu. |
| Local Note |
Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Open Access |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Social sciences -- Great Britain -- History.
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Social sciences -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain.
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Social sciences. (OCoLC)fst01122877
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Social sciences -- Study and teaching. (OCoLC)fst01123000
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Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| In: |
EBL |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Brewer, John D. Public value of the social sciences. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013 9781780935225 1780935226 |
| ISBN |
1780931786 (electronic book) |
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9781780931784 (electronic book) |
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9781780935225 (hardback) |
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1780935226 (hardback) |
| Standard No. |
99953669807 |
| ISBN |
9781780931746 (paperback) |
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9781472545121 |
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1780931743 (paperback) |
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1472545125 |
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