Journal of social issues. Vol. 69, No. 4, Impact validity as a framework for advocacy-based research / issue editors Sean G. Massey and Ricardo E. Barreras

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TextSeries: Journal of social issues ; vol. 69, no. 4Publication details: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., [2013]Description: p. 615-803 : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:

9781118890608
1118890604

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Impact validity as a framework for advocacy-based research

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Summary: 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

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Open Shelf	UMPLIB PEKAN	HM1001 .J68 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		0000088439

Journal of Social Issues is published quarterly on behalf of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues

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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