Behavioral and Social Science Research A National Resource, Part I (1982) / Chapter Skim
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VALUE, SIGNIFICANCE, AND SOCIAL UTILITY Central to the committee's charge is the phrase value, significance, and social utility. Our task was to assess basic research in the behavioral and social 1
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By basic research in the behavioral and social sciences, we mean research that has as its primary aim the understanding and explanation of human behavior and social arrangements. Basic research can be most simply defined as the discovery of new knowledge.
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. Second, the report itself suggests criteria for assessing the value, significance, and social utility of basic research in the behavioral and social sciences and illustrates these criteria with examples drawn from recent research, including the topics reviewed in the papers.
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The most fundamental of these is that basic research in the behavioral and social sciences-like basic research in other disciplines should be regarded as a long-term investment in social capital. The benefits to society of such an investment are significant and lasting, although often not immediate or obvious.
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The BASS report includes a set of individual volumes that assessed the status and needs of particular behavioral and social sciences; its main report not only called for increased federal support for the social and behavioral sciences but also made a number of suggestions for improving the linkages among the various disciplines and between the social science community and the government. This report also proposed the creation of a set of social indicators corresponding to economic indicators.
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THE BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES The behavioral and social sciences are those parts of a number of organized academic and applied disciplines that have as a common objective the explanation of the behavior and social relations of human beings by the application of scientific methods. As distinctive disciplines, the behavioral and social sciences are a development of the late 19th century.
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Basic research in the behavioral and social sciences provides much of the empirical base for the practices and principles promulgated in schools of business, education, urban planning, public health, international affairs, public administration, and social welfare. And research in these fields often contributes to the stock of basic knowledge.
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