Journal of social issues.  Vol. 69, No. 4,  Impact validity as a framework for advocacy-based research / 
 Impact validity as a framework for advocacy-based research 
issue editors Sean G. Massey and Ricardo E. Barreras 
 - Hoboken, NJ :  Wiley Subscription Services, Inc.,  [2013] 
 - p. 615-803 :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
 - Journal of social issues,  vol. 69, no. 4  0022-4537 ; .
 - Journal of social issues ;  vol. 69, no. 4 .
<br/><br/> Journal of Social Issues is published quarterly on behalf of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues  Cover title 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references 
<br/><br/> 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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781118890608 1118890604 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social psychology--Periodicals<br/>Social change--Research--Periodicals