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call for papers: nonprofit management for social change

ASPA's Section on Nonprofit Management has issued a call for papers for a symposium to explore how nonprofit and philanthropic research and practice might embrace its interdisciplinarity by developing theories and methodological approaches to challenge traditional ways of understanding and address wicked problems facing communities today. We invite you to submit original manuscripts on methodological approaches to nonprofit and philanthropic studies that embrace interdisciplinarity in a number of ways. Please see the attached for more details.

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Book Review

PAQ, Vol. 26 No. 1, (2002)

Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Inquiry Fails
and How it Can Succeed Again. Bent Flyvbjerg: Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 205 Pages.
ABSTRACT
This book is a thoughtful antidote to the simple views that see social
science as a science like any other—positivistic science. It begins with
a well-grounded empirical case of the development and application of
expert knowledge, then moves through consideration of context and
values, the centrality of power, and a reconsideration of the Greek roots
of modern knowledge. It concludes with some salient observations
based on the author’s own feedback and research practice.

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