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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This w...

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Eugene J. Meehan's normatively driven approach for social inquiry is essential equipment for policy makers, critics, and administrators. Meehan appends illustrations and applications to education and housing, It is useful for methodology courses for graduate or advanced undergraduate students.

This text provides a generalized framework for understanding how knowledge is developed, acquired, tested, and applied to human affairs, enabling the reader to evaluate and criticize the thinking process.

?This work is ... a set of ideas to guide the thinking by which social science researchers conceptualize their work. ... The author concisely presents a theory of knowledge in order to develop the need for greater precision in description, classification, forecasts, theories, choice, and argument. ... The approach thoroughout is critical.... Each statement is clear, each idea is cogently argued, and one is led gently but relentlessly to percei...

The author presents a sustained argument in favour of a particular perspective on the relationship between normative judgements or arguments and policymaking. The author approaches his complex subject by developing the intellectual requirements for directing actions.

?Meehan presents a picture of the social sciences and their methods which emphasizes its immediate instrumental value in solving social problems and policy issues. Beginning with the meta-theory of the fact-value dichotomy, he guides us step by step through the scientific process, from inception to presentation of findings, pausing when necessary to warn us of pitfalls or instruct us on the proper interpretation of an issue. The reviewer will ...

The author's purpose in this study is to explain the essentials of a promising new approach to measuring and improving cognitive performance, and to summarize the results obtained thus far from years of experimental applications in the USA and elsewhere.

Aims to provide an analytic framework, a theory of knowledge that identifies the kinds of structures and processes required for directing human action and the criteria for evaluating them. It is intended for political and social scientists and graduate students.