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The Social sciences, their nature and uses : papers presented at the 50th anniversary of the Social Science Research Building, the University of Chicago, December 16-18, 1979 / William H. Kruskal, editor. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1982. - xv, 166 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Are social problems problems that social science can solve? / Herbert A. Simon -- Effects of credentials, connections and competence on income / Paul E. Peterson -- Individual experience and cultural order / Marshall D. Sahlins -- Choice in eh spending of time / Mary Jean Bowman -- Prudent aspirations for social inquiry / Lee J. Cronbach -- Response to lecture by Professor Cronbach / Philip E. Converse -- Policy, research, and political theory / James S. Coleman -- The citizen and the scholar / Barry D. Karl -- Distortions of economic research / Theodore W. Schultz -- Federal support in the social sciences / Richard C. Atkinson -- Discrepancies between concepts and their measurements / Norman M. Bradburn -- The impact of the polls on national leadership / Philip E. Converse.

ISBN: 0226454991 :

LCCN: 81016263

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Social sciences--Congresses.

LC Class. No.: H22 / .S73 1982

Dewey Class. No.: 300 / KRS 1982