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- Title
Whatever Happened to Action Research?
- Authors
Sanford, Nevitt
- Abstract
This article questions the status of the action research program of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI). Researchers in the organization are enthusiastic about their work, believing as they did that they could demonstrate its usefulness to the university. The contrast with the milestones in action research in the previous decades of the 1940s and the 1950s highlighted the differences of goals and achievements in the field as it approaches the 1970s. Furthermore, action research has strong advocates in high places of the academic community. Experts such as Martin Deutsch said that the need for knowledge of the effects of experiences upon development as a basis for changes in policies and organizations clearly points to an emphasis on action programs and action research as fundamental tools of the social scientist.
- Publication
Journal of Social Issues, 1970, Vol 26, Issue 4, p3
- ISSN
0022-4537
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-4560.1970.tb01740.x