In complex contemporary societies social science has become
increasingly interwoven into the whole fabric of governance. At the
same time there is an increasing recognition that attempts to
understand the social world which seek to mimic the linear
approaches of the conventional 'hard sciences' are mostly useless
given the complex systems character of society in all its aspects.
This book draws on a synthesis of critical realism and complexity
theory to examine how social science is applied now and how it
might be applied in the future in relation to social transformation
in a time of crisis. A central argument is that there is no such
thing as a 'pure' science of the social and that a recognition of
the inevitability of application imposes obligations on social
scientists wherever they work which challenge the passivity of most
in the face of inequality and injustice.
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