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Peer reviewedFord, Thomas R. – Social Forces, 1977
Suggests that as the social science knowledge requirements of real situations are met, the theoretical knowledge has been found to be less useful for such purposes than most social scientists believed it would be. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Policy Formation, Public Policy, Research Utilization
Garrick, John, Ed.; Rhodes, Carl, Ed. – 2000
This book, which contains 15 chapters by various authors, aims to conceptualize new ways that knowledge is being "legitimized" through various formal and informal workplace-based research practices. It examines the new legitimations critically, and analyzes possible directions for future developments in work-based research and…
Descriptors: Action Research, Business, Education Work Relationship, Educational Research
Download full textFreeman, Milton M. R. – 1977
Anthropology research should be relevant to public policy formation. If anthropologists continue to produce research which reflects a "detached observer" perspective, their studies will not enjoy widespread credibility. The use of policy-relevant anthropology (applied anthropology) will depend in large part on the efforts of anthropologists toward…
Descriptors: Accountability, Anthropology, Bias, Data Analysis
