Realizing Social Science Knowledge The Political Realization of Soci
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Institut ftir Hohere Studien -Institute for Advanced Studies IRS-Studies No. 3
realizing social science knowledge Th.e Political Realization of Social Science Knowledge and Research: Toward New Scenarios
A Symposium in Memoriam Paul F. Lazarsfeld
Edited by B. Holzner, K.D. Knorr, and H. Strasser
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH 1983
CIP-Kurztitelaufnahme der Deutschen Bibliothek Realizing social science knowledge : the polit. realization of social science knowledge and research: toward new scenarios I a Symposium in Memoriam Paul F. Lazarsfeld. Hrsg. von B. Holzner ... - Wien ; Wiirzburg : Physica-Verlag, 1983. (IHS studies ; No. 3) NE: Holzner, Burkart [Hrsg.); Symposium in Memoriam Paul F. Lazarsfeld ; Institut fUr Hohere Studien und Wissenschaftliche Forschung : IHS studies
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Preface
This book is the outcome of an International Conference on "The Political Realization of Social Science Knowledge" organized by the editors of this volume at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, June 18-20, 1980. The original idea of holding the conference was suggested by Paul F. Lazarsfeld, who in his role as a scientific advisor and almost permanent visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies has urged us to bring together scholars from Europe and North America to confront the problem which was perhaps foremost on his scholarly mind: the theoretical, methodological, and empirical problem of the applicability and the actual application of the social sciences. His initial activities in market research in his Vienna years of the late 1920's and early 1930's provide as much testimony as his last book published in 1975: An Introduction to Applied Sociology [Lazarsfeld, P.F., and J.F. Reitz. With the collaboration of A.K. Pasanella. New York 1975]. As a consequence, when the Institute for Advanced Studies decided to fmance the conference in memoriam PFL, the meeting was designed to assess the present state of political realization of social science knowledge and to advance our theoretical understanding of the problems and processes involved in knowledge utilization. As the number of original papers presented at the conference suggests, the response was enthusiastic and the interest in this subject was great. Although the Conference Proceedings do not include all papers for the simple reason of space limitations imposed by the publisher, they reflect the structure of the meeting in which several theoretically
