The Uses of Social Research (Routledge Revivals)

The growth and health of the social sciences owe a good deal to the generally held belief that they are socially useful, but is this really so? In The Uses of Social Research, first published in 1982, Martin Bulmer answers this and other questions concerning the uses of empirical social science in the policy-making process, and provides an extended analysis of the main issues. This book will be of interest to students of the social sciences.