{"id":1958,"date":"2017-06-27T16:18:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T14:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kritische-organisationsforschung.de\/?p=1958"},"modified":"2017-06-27T16:18:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T14:18:18","slug":"return-to-meaning-a-social-science-with-something-to-say-new-book-by-mats-alvesson-yiannis-gabriel-and-roland-paulsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kritische-organisationsforschung.de\/?p=1958","title":{"rendered":"Return to Meaning &#8211; A Social Science with Something to Say. New Book by Mats Alvesson, Yiannis Gabriel and Roland Paulsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds like an interesting and relevant piece of work &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8222;The\u00a0 explosion\u00a0 of\u00a0 published\u00a0 outputs,\u00a0 at\u00a0 least<br \/>\nin\u00a0 social\u00a0 science,\u00a0 creates\u00a0 a\u00a0 noisy,\u00a0 cluttered<br \/>\nenvironment which makes meaningful research<br \/>\ndifficult, as different voices compete to capture<br \/>\nthe limelight even briefly.\u00a0 Publishing comes to<br \/>\nbe seen as a game of hits and misses, devoid<br \/>\nof intrinsic meaning and value, and of no wider<br \/>\nsocial uses whatsoever. Academics do research<br \/>\nin order to get published, not to say something<br \/>\nsocially\u00a0 meaningful.\u00a0 This\u00a0 is\u00a0 what\u00a0 we\u00a0 view\u00a0 as<br \/>\nthe\u00a0 rise\u00a0 of\u00a0 nonsense\u00a0 in\u00a0 academic\u00a0 research,<br \/>\nwhich\u00a0 represents\u00a0 a\u00a0 serious\u00a0 social\u00a0 problem.\u00a0 It<br \/>\nundermines the very point of social science.<br \/>\nThis\u00a0 book\u00a0 argues\u00a0 that\u00a0 we\u00a0 are\u00a0 currently<br \/>\nwitnessing not merely a decline in the quality<br \/>\nof social science research, but the proliferation<br \/>\nof meaningless research, of no value to society,<br \/>\nand\u00a0 modest\u00a0 value\u00a0 to\u00a0 its\u00a0 authors\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 apart\u00a0 from<br \/>\nsecuring employment and promotion&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More information at Oxford University Press: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oup.com\">www.oup.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds like an interesting and relevant piece of work &#8230; &#8222;The\u00a0 explosion\u00a0 of\u00a0 published\u00a0 outputs,\u00a0 at\u00a0 least in\u00a0 social\u00a0 science,\u00a0 creates\u00a0 a\u00a0 noisy,\u00a0 cluttered environment which makes meaningful research difficult, as different voices compete&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[92,56,30],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.4.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Return to Meaning - A Social Science with Something to Say. 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