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Inquiry and Change

Name: Inquiry and Change
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Author: Lindblom, Charles E.
ISBN: 9780300056679

by Lindblom, Charles E.

ISBN13:
9780300056679
ISBN10:
0300056672
eBook ISBN(s):
9780300159523
Additional ISBN(s):
9780300159523
Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 1992-08-01
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
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Summary

How do ordinary citizens, officials, opinion leaders, social scientists, and other experts try to solve our social problems? In this prize-winning book, a distinguished social scientist analyzes our attempts--and our many failures--to understand society well enough to reshape it.

Preface

vii

(4)

Acknowledgments

1 Knowledge and Social Problems

(16)

Part I Probing Volitions

(42)

2 Volitions

(12)

3 Probing

(16)

4 Inquiry, Imposition, and Partisanship

(14)

Part II Impaired Inquiry

(76)

5 Impaired Probing

(19)

6 Elite and Other Advantaged Sources of Impairing Influences

(22)

7 Contemporary Elites

100

(18)

8 Convergences as Evidence of Impairment

118

(17)

Part III The Social Science Contribution

135

(78)

9 What Can Social Scientists Do?

135

(22)

10 Professional Dependence on Lay Probing

157

(18)

11 Professional Help for Lay Probing

175

(17)

12 Professional Impairment

192

(21)

Part IV Toward Prescription

213

(90)

13 Scientific Society and Self-Guiding Society

213

(18)

14 Multiplism, Pluralism, and Mutual Adjustment

231

(26)

15 Some Questions about Professional Inquiry for a Self-Guiding Society

257

(27)

16 Reducing Impairment

284

(19)

Index

303

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