Realizing Social Science Knowledge: The Political Realization of Social Science Knowledge and Research: Toward New Scenarios

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Front Matter ....Pages 1-8 Introduction (B. Holzner, K. D. Knorr, H. Strasser)....Pages 9-11 In Memoriam Paul F. Lazarsfeld Paul F. Lazarsfeld and the Institutionalization of Empirical Social Research (P. Neurath)....Pages 13-26 Front Matter ....Pages 27-27 Scientific Explanation and Human Emancipation (R. Bhaskar)....Pages 29-51 Objectivity and Endurance: On Some Evaluative Criteria for Social Science Knowledge (R. Reichardt)....Pages 52-63 Some Issues in the Real Use of Science (J. O’Neill)....Pages 64-70 Front Matter ....Pages 71-71 Accounts and Action: The Logic(s) of Social Science and Pragmatic Knowledge (Nico Steht, W. Baldamus)....Pages 73-79 The Emergence of Combat Anthropology in France: A Study in the Production and Utilization of Social Science Knowledge (Michael Hammond)....Pages 79-92 Social Knowledge for Social Policy (Samuel Z. Klausner)....Pages 93-121 Front Matter ....Pages 163-163 Sociology — Decyphering “Zeitgeist”, Creating Consciousness or Cooperating to “Solve Problems”? (Leopold Rosenmayr)....Pages 125-146 Beyond Figure-Ground and Context (Marc T. De Mey)....Pages 147-157 Social Science and Practical Knowledge: Toward New Paradigms (Marina Fischer-Kowalski)....Pages 158-161 Front Matter ....Pages 163-163 Research in the Service of Social Reform: The Politics of Designing Systems of Knowledge Production and Use (Evelyn M. Fisher)....Pages 165-178 Conceptions of Science (J. M. Ziman)....Pages 179-196 Societal Development and Social Research (Hermann Strasser)....Pages 197-198 Front Matter ....Pages 199-199 Three Terms in Search of Reconceptualization: Knowledge, Utilization, and Decision-Making (Carol H. Weiss)....Pages 201-219 Making, Relaying, and Using Knowledge (Robert F. Rich)....Pages 220-235 Construing Knowledge Use (Gerald Zaltman)....Pages 236-251 Front Matter ....Pages 253-253 Knowledge Conversion and Utilization (Nathan Caplan)....Pages 255-264 Implementation Structures: A New Unit of Administrative Analysis (Benny Hjern, David O. Porter)....Pages 265-277 Front Matter ....Pages 279-279 The Dissemination and Use of Educational R & D in the United States: An Analysis of Recent Federal Attempts to Improve Educational Practice (Michael B. Kane, A. Thel Kocher)....Pages 281-294 Use of Social Science Knowledge and Data in Public Policy Making: The Deliberations on the Compensatory Educational Policy by U.S. Congress (Vijai P. Singh)....Pages 295-305 Knowledge Utilization and State Agencies: Some Remarks (Kurt W. Rothschild)....Pages 306-308 Front Matter ....Pages 309-309 The Nature of Information Utilization in Local Organizations (Judith K. Larsen)....Pages 311-326 The Utilization of Social Science Knowledge in Studying Technology and Society: The Case of the Accident at Three Mile Island (David L. Sills)....Pages 327-336 Back Matter ....Pages 337-337