What is the purpose of social science? How can social science make itself relevant to the intractable problems facing humanity in the twenty-first century?
The social sciences are under threat from two main sources. One is external, reflected in a global university crisis that imposes the marketization of higher education on the ancient practice of scholarship. The other, internal threat is social science's withdrawal from publicly-engaged...
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