Systemic Perspectivism
A New Basis for Evaluative Research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11344389 |
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| Authors | Richard A Ball (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 1978-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0191-5096 • E-ISSN: 0191-5096 |
| Publisher | WMU Department of Occupational Therapy (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.15453/0191-5096.1288 |
| OpenAlex | W2740500216 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
Evaluative research has not kept pace with developments in the theory of social planning and the philosophy of science. If evaluation is to contribute to social planning, evaluators must recognize that planning is a political process. The method of systemic perspectivism may be able to provide a means of combining the virtues of general systems theory with a perspectivistic view of objectivity, allowing for a transactive planning which involves the public
Economics · Epistemology · Knowledge management · Management science · Objectivity (philosophy · Pace · Perspectivism · Sociology · Transactive memory · Complex Systems and Decision Making · Computer Science · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Philosophy · Psychology
The Discovery of Grounded Theory
The structure of scientific revolutions
Sociology and modern systems theory.
Methodology for Social Research
The Discovery of Grounded Theory
The Sociologist as Detective
The Sociological Imagination
Economic and Social Development
Equitable Evaluation through Investigative Sociology
The Evaluation of Broad-Aim Programs
The sociological imagination
Evaluating social programs
Introduction to Systems Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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