00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000002815 10743/MKRI-P/XI-2008 20221013081351 0010-0520002815 221013################|##########|#eng## 1402073216 eng 300 300/STE/T Steuer, Max The Scientific Study of Society Boston : Routledge, 2003 464 : xix, 464 p.; 25 cm ; 25 cm Indeks : p. 445 - 461 p. 425 - 443 This book presents an abstract discussion of social science, in a period when science in all forms is under attack, does little to inform the debate on its role and progress. There is a strong and growing tendency for work that is far from scientific to go under the label of social sciences. This book undertakes the novel approach of reviewing the journal literature on six different topics by each of the five social sciences, and so highlights the contrasting approaches of each of the disciplines. Recent work by anthropologists, economists, political scientists, social psychologists and sociologists on crime, migration, the family, housing, money and religion is examined. The topics are of concern to policy makers and the book argues that policy makers should make wider use of scientific knowledge in addressing these and other social issues. Social Condition Social Sciences -- Methodology 10743/MKRI-P/XI-2008