Table of Contents:
  • The pathology of applied research in social science / H. Igor Ansoff
  • Applying psychology or applied psychology / Claude Lévy-Leboyer
  • Three projects involving prediction / Leslie T. Wilkins
  • The misapplication of social science at Unesco / Peter Lengyel
  • A research programme of the utilization of the social sciences / Ansgar Weymann, Ludwig Ellermann and Matthias Wingens
  • Social science and social policy : who uses whom? / Robert H. Haveman
  • The ethics of research in a public enterprise / A.J. Berry [and others]
  • Research as action : an experiment in utilizing the social sciences / John Gill
  • Use and abuse of science / Frank Heller
  • Social research as participative dialogue / Bjørn Gustavsen
  • Research and social policy : political, organizational and cultural constraints / Peter Brannen
  • Facets of 'relevance' in sociological research / John Eldridge
  • Policy research under scrutiny / Albert Cherns
  • Policy research : an analysis of function and structure / Mark van de Vall
  • Research and policy-making : a limited partnership / Carol Hirschon Weiss
  • What's the use of social science? : a review of the literature / Roger S. Karapin.