Knowledge and the Social Sciences: Theory, Method, Practice looks at the role of the social sciences in explaining and exploring what has been called the explos

Knowledge Discovery in the Social Sciences helps readers find valid, meaningful, and useful information. It is written for researchers and data analysts as well

For the past fifty years anxiety over naturalism has driven debates in social theory. One side sees social science as another kind of natural science, while the

A wide-ranging discussion of factors that impede the cumulation of knowledge in the social sciences, including problems of transparency, replication, and reliab

"The central premise of this book is that the demand for social science knowledge is derived from the demand for institutional change." --pref.