Making Making Social Science Matter Matter To Us
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6299767 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Adcock (Department of Political Science, 2115 G St NW, Suite 440B, Washington DC 20052, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 97-112 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Theoretical Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0951-6298 • E-ISSN: 1460-3667 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0951629808097285 |
| OpenAlex | W2031394815 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 12 |
This article pursues two line of inquiry in response to Bent Flyvbjerg's advocacy of a phronetic social science in Making Social Science Matter (2001). First, I explore how Flyvbjerg's manifesto relates to the approach employed in his earlier empirical work, Rationality & Power (1998). There are, I argue, notable disjunctions between the practice of Rationality & Power and the preaching of Making Social Science Matter. Second, I explicate and rework Flyvbjerg's contrast between epistemic and phronetic social science with an eye to its reception by a specific disciplinary audience: American political scientists. In doing so, I build on several contributions to Sanford Schram and Brian Caterino's edited volume Making Political Science Matter (2006). My aspiration is, however, rather different from that of the volume: I strive to make epistemic and phronetic into accessible categories of reformist reflection, not provocative banners under which to marshal revolutionary opposition to our disciplinary mainstream(s
Discipline · Epistemology · Mainstream · Manifesto · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Rationality · Social science · Sociology · Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration · Law · Philosophy · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Science and Policy Research
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| Citations per year | 0.18 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2015 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |