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Conservative Protestants are mentioned repeatedly in the ongoing
conversation about social capital, individualism, and community in
the United States. As John Wilson notes in his introduction,
evangelicals are frequently discussed either as a threat to civil
society or as apparent counterexamples to the prevailing view of
American society's fragmentation. The essays in this volume take
another look at the role of evangelicals in American civic life.
The prominent contributors examine evangelicals' beliefs and
activity on topics ranging from bioethics to race relations and
welfare reform to international human rights. Taken together, the
essays show that, contrary to what critics have proclaimed, the
social commitment of evangelicals extends considerably beyond
family-related issues, and that their activity in the public sphere
makes an essential contribution to the public good. Clearly written
and persuasively argued, A Public Faith: Evangelicals and Civic
Engagement is a powerful correction to the misconceptions about
evangelicals that abound in the current civil-society debate.
Co-published with the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
Undeniably, the amount of "human information" in our culture has
increased by leaps and bounds. How that information is used has
profound implications on the way we live as a society. At the same
time, the discussion of values, norms, and purpose is often missing
from the discourse of social research especially by those who work
within the positivist framework. Authors James Bradley and Kurt
Schaefer develop principles to guide the use of data and models in
the human sciences. Writing as scholars who are at home with
empirical and mathematical social science, yet taking seriously the
critiques of this heritage, the authors propose ways of developing
norms without becoming radically subjective. The Uses and Misuses
of Data and Models argues eloquently that norms, values, and
purpose need to become part of the common discourse of researchers,
with more ethical and socially responsible research the result. The
Uses and Misuses of Data and Models is an intriguing and
thought-provoking book that will be of great interest to anyone
involved in the enterprise of social research.
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