Inquiry & Change - The Troubled Attempt to Understand & Shape Society (Paper)

Preface vii(4) Acknowledgments xi 1 Knowledge and Social Problems 1(16) Part I Probing Volitions 17(42) 2 Volitions 17(12) 3 Probing 29(16) 4 Inquiry, Imposition, and Partisanship 45(14) Part II Impaired Inquiry 59(76) 5 Impaired Probing 59(19) 6 Elite and Other Advantaged Sources of Impairing Influences 78(22) 7 Contemporary Elites 100(18) 8 Convergences as Evidence of Impairment 118(17) Part III The Social Science Contribution 135(78) 9 What Can Social Scientists Do? 135(22) 10 Professional Dependence on Lay Probing 157(18) 11 Professional Help for Lay Probing 175(17) 12 Professional Impairment 192(21) Part IV Toward Prescription 213(90) 13 Scientific Society and Self-Guiding Society 213(18) 14 Multiplism, Pluralism, and Mutual Adjustment 231(26) 15 Some Questions about Professional Inquiry for a Self-Guiding Society 257(27) 16 Reducing Impairment 284(19) Index 303