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Pursuing truth, exercising power social science and public policy in the twenty-first century

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York Columbia University Press 2003Description: xi ,158 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780231126076
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320/.6AND
Summary: The conditions that shaped the rise and expansion of American social science are rapidly changing, and with them, the terms of its relationship with power and policy. As globalization has diminished the role of the state as the locus of public policy in favor of NGOs, multinational corporations and other private entities, it has raised important questions about the future of the social sciences and their universalist pretensions.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-143) and index.

The conditions that shaped the rise and expansion of American social science are rapidly changing, and with them, the terms of its relationship with power and policy. As globalization has diminished the role of the state as the locus of public policy in favor of NGOs, multinational corporations and other private entities, it has raised important questions about the future of the social sciences and their universalist pretensions.

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