Practical Knowledge: Applying the Social Sciences

by Nico Stehr

The status of the social sciences as knowledge presents two fundamental problems. The first is epistemological: in what sense is the subject of the social sciences known and knowable? The second is pragmatic: can knowledge generated by the social sciences be applied, and with what consequences?

In this book, Nico Stehr offers a major reassessment of the latter question of the utility of social science knowledge, including economics. Arguing for a reconception of the ways in which social scientific knowledge can be and is applied, this book will be of interest to a broad range of social scientists.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803986998
• ISBN13: 9780803986992
• Release Date: July 1992
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 208 Pages