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The Production of Knowledge - Enhancing Progress in Social Science (Hardcover)
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The Production of Knowledge - Enhancing Progress in Social Science (Hardcover)
Series: Strategies for Social Inquiry
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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?
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