Making Social Science Matter
- Making Social Science Matter
Making Social Science Matter: Why social inquiry fails and how it can succeed again ISBN 052177568X is a book written in 2001 (Cambridge University Press) by a Danish planning and development researcher Bent Flyvbjerg. The book describes Phronetic social science.
ee also
*Flyvbjerg Debate
External links
* [http://flyvbjerg.plan.aau.dk/mssmexcerpt.php Excerpts from the book]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=yVBXPf50EV0C&dq=%22Making+social+science+matter%22&pg=PP1&ots=7tQCla5abn&sig=5eXLjQMzBmLRHziW4Z-v2eHq9wU&hl=no&prev=http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Making+social+science+matter%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.debian:nb-NO:unofficial&client=iceweasel-a&sa=X&oi=print&ct=result&cd=1&cad=legacy Google Books]
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