Inquiry and Change: The Troubled Attempt to Understand and Shape Society

by Charles E. Lindblom

Book Overview

How do ordinary citizens, government officials, opinion leaders, or social scientists attempt to solve social problems? How competent are we at defining the problems, seeking information, and finding answers? In this important and controversial book, a distinguished social scientist meticulously analyzes our attempt to understand society so that we can reshape it. In so doing, he largely bypasses both epistemology and contemporary highly abstract...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300056672
• ISBN13: 9780300056679
• Release Date: July 1992
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.2"