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Article: Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Inquiry Fails and How it Can Succeed Again.(Review)
- Article from:
- Australian Journal of Social Issues
- Article date:
- August 1, 2001
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Bent Flyvbjerg, Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Inquiry Fails and How it Can Succeed Again (trans. Steven Sampson), Cambridge, New York, Melbourne & Madrid, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
The editor of the history of science journal Ambix used to have a role that one should not start a review with the word `this'. I've always thought this to be sound advice. So I heed it; but I should like to follow up immediately by saying, `This is a good book.'
For it is. It's interesting, well written (thank you Steven Sampson?), and holds to a cogent philosophical--sociological position. It concludes with a most interesting example of the successful ...