In Problem-Solving Sociology, Monica Prasad uses the traditions of sociological research to solve real-world problems, and uses the attempt to grapple with real-world problems as a way to reformulate understandings of society and renew or reinvent those traditions.
In Problem-Solving Sociology, Monica Prasad uses the traditions of sociological research to solve real-world problems, and uses the attempt to grapple with real-world problems as a way to reformulate understandings of society and renew or reinvent those traditions.
Monica Prasad Professor of Sociology and Faculty Fellow in the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. She has written three award-winning books: Starving the Beast: Ronald Reagan and the Tax Cut Revolution, The Land of Too Much: American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty, and The Politics of Free Markets: The Rise of Neoliberal Economic Policies in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States. Her scholarship has received the Fulbright award, the National Science Foundation Early Career Development Award, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and several other grants and awards. For more on problem-solving sociology see: problemsolvingsociology.com
Inhaltsangabe
1. The Thought Machine 2. But is it Objective? 3. Victims and Villains 4. A Magic Trick: Research Design for Problem-Solving 5. The View from Mars 6. Decision Points and Exercises (1): Finding Your Project 7. Decision Points and Exercises (2): Troubling Your Assumptions 8. Decision Points and Exercises (3): Clarifying and Defending Your Argument 9. The Place of Problem Solving in American Sociology 10. An Orrery of Objections 11. When to Stop Problem Solving 12. Building Your Own Boat Acknowledgments Endnotes Index
1. The Thought Machine 2. But is it Objective? 3. Victims and Villains 4. A Magic Trick: Research Design for Problem-Solving 5. The View from Mars 6. Decision Points and Exercises (1): Finding Your Project 7. Decision Points and Exercises (2): Troubling Your Assumptions 8. Decision Points and Exercises (3): Clarifying and Defending Your Argument 9. The Place of Problem Solving in American Sociology 10. An Orrery of Objections 11. When to Stop Problem Solving 12. Building Your Own Boat Acknowledgments Endnotes Index
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