The Courts, Social Science, and School Desegregation - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0878551506 ISBN 13: 9780878551507

Publisher: Routledge, 1977

Synopsis

This book surveys the legal issues confronting courts as they decide school desegregation cases, and the extent to which social science research has been brought to bear on those issues. It examines the relationship between school segregation and residential segregation.

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Review:

“For nearly three decades now the social sciences have been inextricably linked to the courts in the area of school desegregation. . . . [Amidst] this flurry of social science activity vis-à-vis the courts, there are a number of unanswered questions regarding the nature of this relationship. . . . The Courts, Social Science, and School Desegregation is a most important book. It vividly illustrates that the relation of social science to the courts is not merely a matter to be viewed as an interesting epistemological or philosophy of science question. Indeed, there are demonstrable outcomes for the lives of children and adults alike riding on court decrees related to school desegregation. . . . Taken together, the papers represent a singularly significant contribution to our understanding of the complexities and difficulties inherent in linking social science and the judicial process. What is perhaps most compelling about the book is the elucidation of the immense gap between the linguistic, normative, and procedural worlds of law and social science.”

—Ray C. Rist, Contemporary Sociology

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0878551506
• ISBN 13: 9780878551507
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 438
• Editor: Elazar Daniel, Levin Betsy