Real Social Science: Applied Phronesis

by Sanford Schram, Bent Flyvbjerg, Todd Landman

Book Overview

Real Social Science presents a new, hands-on approach to social inquiry. The theoretical and methodological ideas behind the book, inspired by Aristotelian phronesis, represent an original perspective within the social sciences, and this volume gives readers for the first time a set of studies exemplifying what applied phronesis looks like in practice. The reflexive analysis of values and power gives new meaning to the impact of research on policy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00BG74KXO
• ISBN13: 9780521168205
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"