Notes on Social Science Policy

Steindl, Josef

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Document type:: Works

Collection:: Josef Steindl Collection

Title:: Notes on Social Science Policy

Author:: Steindl, Josef

Scope:: Typoskript, 14 Blätter, handschriftliche Notiz auf der Rückseite von Blatt 11

Year of publication:: ohne Datum

Language:: English

Description:: Development of knowledge, social sciences, alienation, moral responsibility for scientific creation, integrated science policy.

Note:: Unveröffentlichtes Typoskript.

Topic:: Economic history,economic theory,current developments

JEL Classification:: A12 [Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines] A13 [Relation of Economics to Social Values]

Shelfmark:: S/M.44.4

Access:: Free access

II Further relevant to the environmental problem is the question how far man is adaptable and how far he is rigid, invariant as it were. This obviously is one of the great questions of mankind. We have come to realize that the "conquest of nature" is a wrong concept. We have to look for our place in the world now, and this is by far the more difficult problem. It is clearly relevant to the formulation of new aims for society. This again demands a major cooperation of science and the social sciences. The integration of the social sciences in a general science pol icy will have to take into account the following facts and arguments: 1) Social Science can help to understand the process which we are trying to steer or to influence by science policy: The diffusion of inventions, the taking up or rejection of ideas by the practical man in positions of power, the eco nomics of research. 2) Social sciences and natural science have to cooperate in the formulation of environmental policies, and in the studies preceding it. 3) In particular, the formulation of the aims of the environ mental policy requires the cooperation of social sciences, in view of their traditional role as purveyors of utopias. 4) The "innovation in the social sector", including government administration offers, of course, a parallel to innovation

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