Return to Meaning: A Social Science with Something to Say

by Mats Alvesson, Yiannis Gabriel, Roland Paulsen

This book argues that we are currently witnessing not merely a decline in the quality of social science research, but the proliferation of meaningless research, of no value to society, and modest value to its authors - apart from securing employment and promotion.

The explosion of published outputs, at least in social science, creates a noisy, cluttered environment which makes meaningful research difficult, as different voices compete to capture...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019878709X
• ISBN13: 9780198787099
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"