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What are the social sciences? What do they do? How are they practised in Australia? The Poor Relation examines the place of the social sciences - from economics and psychology to history, law and philosophy - in the teaching and research conducted by Australian universities. Across sixty years, The Poor Relation charts the changing circumstances of the social sciences, and measures their contribution to public policy. In doing so it also relates the arrangements made to support them and explains why they are so persistently treated as the poor relation of science and technology.

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Author:   Stuart Macintyre
Publisher:   Melbourne University Press
Imprint:   Melbourne University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.536kg
ISBN:  

9780522857757

ISBN 10:   0522857752
Pages:   402
Publication Date:   01 July 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Unspecified
Availability:   In Print  
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"Stuart Macintyre is the Ernest Scott Professor of History at the University of Melbourne and the author of ""The History Wars."" He is a former president of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and a current member of the Advisory Council of the Australian Research Council."

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