Impact Validity as a Framework for Advocacy-Based Research (Journal of Social Issues (JOSI))

By Ricardo E. Barreras

This issue introduces a new framework for thinking about research from the standpoint of usable knowledge. Impact Validity is the extent to which research has the potential to play a role in social and political change or is useful as a tool for advocacy or activism. A series of articles have been collected for this issue that exemplify the intersection of science, activism / advocacy, and social change. These articles highlight the ways in which others have strategically grounded their research in the advocacy needs of the social/political issue they are trying to influence, and the various decisions throughout the research process that have had a bearing on its potential to be useful in addressing social problems. These decisions, which rarely receive systematic attention, take central stage.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1118890604
• ISBN13: 9781118890608
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.9" x 0.4" x 5.9"