1st Edition
The Uses of Social Research (Routledge Revivals) Social Investigation in Public Policy-Making
By Martin Bulmer
Copyright 1982
198 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
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The growth and health of the social sciences owe a good deal to the generally held belief that they are socially useful, but is this really so? Do they deliver the goods they promise? In The Uses of Social Research , first published in 1982, Martin Bulmer answers these and other questions concerning the uses of empirical social science in the policy-making process, and provides an extended... Read more
Preface; 1. A Historical Perspective upon Applied Social Research in Britain 2. Models of the Relationship between Knowledge and Policy 3. Conceptualising Problems and Designing Research: ‘Deprivation’ and ‘Disadvantage’ 4. Measurement and Explanation: Physical Handicap and Health and Illness 5. The Use of Social Research by Governmental Commissions 6. The Institutional Context of Social Research 7. Patterns of Influence; References; Index
Biography
Martin Bulmer
