| |
| |
| |
Centre for Policy on Ageing | |
 | |
|
| Expanding the domain of policy-relevant scholarship in the social sciences | | Author(s) | William Julius Wilson |
| Corporate Author | ESRC Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion - CASE, Suntory-Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines - STICERD, London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Publisher | STICERD, London, 2002 |
| Pages | 10 pp (CASEpaper 52) |
| Source | Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. |
| Keywords | Sociology, Social Science ; Social policy ; Methodology ; Research Reviews. |
| Annotation | The author argues that social scientists need to do more to provide policy-relevant research, and suggests two ways of expanding such research. First, social scientists should be more flexible abut the kinds of data they use and the ways they use them. Preliminary data can suggest new hypotheses, which can widen debate, and ethnographic and other qualitative methods can uncover patterns of behaviour invisible in quantitative sources. Second, social theories, concepts and ideas should play a greater role in the policy arena, shaping the way policy-makers think about how the world works. This paper was submitted as a contribution to the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) review of work undertaken by the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE). (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020325205 B |
| Classmark | S: TM2: 3D: 3A:6KC |
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing |
|
| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
| |
|
|