The Public Value of the Social Sciences
An Interpretative Essay
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7104871 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John D Brewer (0000-0002-4213-5830, corresponding author), Bloomsbury Bloomsbury |
| Year | 2013 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | The Public Value of the Social Sciences (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing plc (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.5040/9781472545121 |
| OpenAlex | W33679023 |
| Open Library | OL29134096M |
| ISBN | 9781472545121 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 35 |
What is the purpose of social science? How can social science make itself relevant to the intractable problems facing humanity in the twenty-first century? The social sciences are under threat from two main sources. One is external, reflected in a global university crisis that imposes the marketization of higher education on the ancient practice of scholarship. The other, internal threat is social science's withdrawal from publicly–engaged teaching and research into the protective bunker of disciplinarity. In articulating a vision for the public role of social science in the twenty-first century, John Brewer argues that these threats also constitute an opportunity for a new public social science to emerge, confident in its public value and fully engaged with the future of humanity in its teaching, research and civic responsibilities, while also remaining committed to science. The argument is presented in the form of an interpretive essay: thought-provoking, forward-looking, and challenging to intellectual orthodoxy. It should be read and debated by all researchers and teachers in the social science disciplines who are concerned by the future of higher education and the relevance of their subjects to the future of humankind
Argument (complex analysis · Environmental ethics · Humanity · Orthodoxy · Outline of social science · Pedagogy · Political science · Scholarship · Science education · Social science · Social science education · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Law · Medicine · Political Science Research and Education · Social sciences, study and teaching
The Question of Relevance
Introduction
Monotheism and Peacebuilding
Strategizing public value
The University as Troublemaker
Attracting new users or business as usual? A case study of converting academic subscription-based journals to open access
The Sociology of Compromise after Conflict
Society as a Vocation
A Study of Ghanaian Inclusive Basic School Teachers’ Perspectives and Uses of Research Evidence in Pedagogical Practice
Social models as dynamic theories
The politics of research impact
From performativity to normativity
Cultural value, measurement and policy making
Impact’, ‘value’ and ‘bad economics’
In defence of utility
The frontiers of participatory public engagement
Sports tribes and academic identity
Understanding the research-policy relationship in ESE
Re-imagining the rural
Coordinating localism and cosmopolitanism in social science studies
Equity in the Classroom and the Clinic
Always Relevant? Finding a Place for the Social Sciences in the Technical University and the Business School
Public sociology, social justice and struggles in the era of austerity-and-crises
Towards purposeful business schools
The case for reinvigorating quality of working life research
Assessing the value of political science in the era of relevance and impact
Leaping the Abyss
Gender, Migration and Development
Debating animal agriculture in contemporary India
Boundary spanning in higher education leadership
The ethics of ethical debates in peace and conflict research
Neoliberalism, the University, Public Goods and Agricultural Innovation
Re-making 'quality' within the social sciences
Making Global Sociology in the Context of Neoliberal Domination
Global Sociology' from a Comparative Perspective
| Unique citing works | 35 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,92 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 35 |