The Production of Knowledge - Enhancing Progress in Social Science (Paperback)

Whilst a great deal of progress has been made in recent decades, concerns persist about the course of the social sciences. Progress in these disciplines is hard to assess and core scientific goals such as discovery, transparency, reproducibility, and cumulation remain frustratingly out of reach. Despite having technical acumen and an array tools at their disposal, today's social scientists may be only slightly better equipped to vanquish error and construct an edifice of truth than their forbears - who conducted analyses with slide rules and wrote up results with typewriters. This volume considers the challenges facing the social sciences, as well as possible solutions. In doing so, we adopt a systemic view of the subject matter. What are the rules and norms governing behavior in the social sciences? What kinds of research, and which sorts of researcher, succeed and fail under the current system? In what ways does this incentive structure serve, or subvert, the goal of scientific progress?

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Strategies for Social Inquiry
Release date:	March 2020
Editors:	Colin Elman • John Gerring • James Mahoney
Dimensions:	246 x 174 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	566
ISBN-13:	978-1-108-70828-9
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Data analysis Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Research methods Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Information theory > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Decision theory > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social research & statistics > General Promotions
LSN:	1-108-70828-5
Barcode:	9781108708289

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