The use and usefulness of the social sciences
Subtitle: achievements, disappointments, and promise
By: special editors of this volume, James Jennings [and] Lawrence W. Sherman
Contributors: Pearson, R. W.; Sherman, Lawrence W; American Academy of Political and Social Science
Series: The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science -- v. 600; Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science -- v. 600
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Social sciences -- United States -- History; Social sciences -- Methodology; Political planning -- United States -- History; Political planning -- Methodology; Social scientists -- United States
Notes: "July 2005."

Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: Preface : the achievements, frustrations, and promise of the social sciences / Robert W. Pearson and Lawrence W. Sherman; title: Political ideas and a political science for policy / Kenneth Prewitt; title: Toward an anthropology of public policy / Janine R. Wedel...[et. al.]; title: The current state of economics : needs lots of work / Barbara R. Bergmann; title: The return of the repressed : recovering the public face of U.S. sociology, one hundred years on / Michael Burawoy; title: Nature and nurture : genetic and environmental influences on behavior / Robert Plomin and Kathryn Asbury; title: The uses and usefulness of psychology / Mitchell G. Ash; title: The use and usefulness of criminology, 1751-2005 ; enlightened justice and its failures / Lawrence W. Sherman; title: International relations as a social science : rigor and relevance / Jeffry A. Frieden and David A. Lake; title: Book review essay : the uneasy partnership between social science and public policy / Robert W. Pearson; title: Quick read synopsis : The use and usefulness of the social sciences : achievements, disappointments, and promise