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Policy and Planning Programs as Goals of Scientific Work: interdisciplinary Training for Social Planning as a Case Study in Applied Social Science
Author(s) -
Winthrop Henry
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
american journal of economics and sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1536-7150
pISSN - 0002-9246
DOI - 10.1111/j.1536-7150.1975.tb01182.x
Subject(s) - relation (database) , prejudice (legal term) , field (mathematics) , specialty , sociology , work (physics) , training (meteorology) , engineering ethics , public relations , management science , political science , psychology , social psychology , engineering , computer science , geography , mechanical engineering , mathematics , database , psychiatry , meteorology , pure mathematics
A bstract .Policy and planning have now become the field of a new profession—actually a series of professions—in and out of academic life as each of the specialized social and behavioral sciences is applied to the problems of society by some of its professional practitioners. Specialism , however, tends to make of problems in real life constructs that fit within the borders of one's specialty, constructs which have little relation to reality. To transcend specialism's limitations without prejudice to specialization, interdisciplinary training is proposed and worked out for a single area, social policy and social planning.