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Experimental Research and Social Policy: Must It Be Rigor versus Relevance?
Author(s) -
Brewer Marilynn B.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1985.tb01149.x
Subject(s) - relevance (law) , character (mathematics) , psychology , epistemology , positive economics , social psychology , sociology , political science , philosophy , mathematics , economics , law , geometry
… the acquirement of knowledge was interesting and attractive but it could only give clear and exact results in proportion to its inapplicability to the question of life. The less it had to do with these questions, the clearer and more exact it was; the more it took the character of a solution of these questions, the obscurer and less attractive they became….(Tolstoy, 1887, p. 41)