The public value of the social sciences an interpretive essay
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 marketizat...
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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic
2013.
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Colección: | Bloomsbury OA ebooks.
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Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b45536995*spi |
Sumario: | 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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 recurso electrónico |
Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
Bibliografía: | Incluye índice y referencias bibliográficas. |
ISBN: | 9781780931784 9781472545121 9781780935225 9781780931746 9781780931777 |