POLITICAL SCIENCE
"Political Scientists
Are Lousy Forecasters." New York Times. Jacqueline Stevens
June 23, 2012. Link
A list of rebuttals to Stevens' argument by
John Sides at themonkeycage.org can be found here.
Expert
Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? Philip E. Tetlock. Princeton
University Press, 2006.
(A short
article by Tetlock on the same research is How Accurate Are Your Pet Pundits?)
Why International Relations
has Failed as an Intellectual Project and What to do About it. Millennium - Journal
of International Studies. January 2001 30: 19-39. Barry Buzan and Richard
Little. Abstract
"The recent events in
Egypt remind us how hard it is to predict crucial events, and even to fully
understand them as they unfold before our very eyes. This is an interesting
test case for the social sciences in a very complex world. After Marta Dassù
opened the debate with the following
article, which appeared in La Stampa in Italian on January 31, 2011 [PDF],
Aspenia online continues the discussion on why political scientists and
analysts have such a hard time predicting major change."
HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
"Academic War over the Field of Geography": The Elimination of Geography at Harvard, 1947-1951. Neil Smith. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 77, No. 2 (Jun., 1987), pp. 155-172.
Markusen, Anne. 1999. Fuzzy Concepts, Scanty Evidence, Policy Distance: The Case for Rigour and Policy Relevance in Critical Regional Studies. Regional Studies 33: 869-884. Link (PDF download. My browser says this is a dangerous file for some reason, but it is just a PDF from the journal Regional Studies.)
Markusen, Anne. 1999. Fuzzy Concepts, Scanty Evidence, Policy Distance: The Case for Rigour and Policy Relevance in Critical Regional Studies. Regional Studies 33: 869-884. Link (PDF download. My browser says this is a dangerous file for some reason, but it is just a PDF from the journal Regional Studies.)
Hamnett, Chris. 2003.
Contemporary Human Geography: Fiddling While Rome Burns? Geoforum 34:
1-3.
SOCIOLOGY
Goertzel, Ted. 2002.
‘Econometric Modeling as Junk Science’ unpublished manuscript, Department
of Sociology, Rutgers University. (A simplified version without graphs is
published as ‘Myths of Murder and Multiple Regression’, The Skeptical
Inquirer. 26(1): 19-23; the graphs, however, are important.)
Goertzel, Ted and Benjamin
Goertzel, 2008. Capital Punishment and Homicide Rates: Sociological Realities and Econometric
Distortions. Critical Sociology 34(2). 239-254.
Towards a Respectable,
Reflexive, Scientific Sociology: A Note on the Reformation Required. Joseph M.
Bryant. Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie,
17: 3. (Summer, 1992), pp. 322-331. Jstor/1st page
'Use of the word "crisis" to
characterize the state of our discipline has been overworked almost to the point of cliche, but certainly the vital signs
in the last few years are not promising. (p. 322)
Gouldner, A.W. 1971. The Coming Crisis
of Western Sociology. New York: Equinox Books.
Sigurd Skirbekk. "'Crisis of sociology' – and consequences for an
adequate understanding of contemporary cultural conflicts." Journal
of Sociology. (Sosiologisk Tidsskrift) Universitetsforlaget, Oslo.
No. 3, 2008, pp. 281-291. Link
"I am accusing a broad range of
sociologists for not living up to their professional
program."
Sociology has identity
crisis, 26 March 2004, Alison Utley, Times Higher Education
Supplement. Link
MISCELLANEOUS
Franco Archibugi. Planning Theory:
Reconstruction or Requiem for Planning? European
Planning Studies, Vol. 12, No. 3, April 2004. Link
“In spite of the geometric
progression in the quantity of scholars who have devoted themselves - more
or less totally - to theoretical reflections about planning, both as a practice
and as an academic discipline (to the point of founding a new strand or discipline
of study, Planning Theory), I think that a diffuse, creeping uneasiness
has pervaded all the participants of this discipline.”
Social Sciences as Sorcery. Stanislav
Andreski. 1972.
Sokal, Alan D. and Bricmont,
Jean. Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science.
Picador USA: New York, 1998.
“Impenetrable writing layered
with jargon and a near-xenophobic attitude towards lay people has given us all
the impression that academics in the arts, humanities and social sciences are
utterly irrelevant...
Edward C. Banfield.
"Policy Science as Metaphysical Madness "
Unintelligible Management Research and Academic Prestige . Interfaces, Vol. 10, No. 2, April 1980, p. 80-86.
J. Scott Armstrong Link
Naftulin, Donald H., Ware, J.E., Jr., and Donnelly, F. A., 1973, "The Doctor Fox Lecture: A
Paradigm of Educational Seduction," Journal of Medical Education 48, pp. 630-635.
Naftulin, Donald H., Ware, J.E., Jr., and Donnelly, F. A., 1973, "The Doctor Fox Lecture: A
Paradigm of Educational Seduction," Journal of Medical Education 48, pp. 630-635.
What's the Matter With Cultural Studies? The popular discipline
has lost its bearings
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