We who concern ourselves with researching... have not succeeded in demonstrating to policymakers the relevance of what we do, or even in communicating it to them in anything approaching a usable form.
John Lewis Gaddis
Applied Social Science: Use of social science knowledge for practical action Sociology of Knowledge Application: Sociology of knowledge turned on its head. Concerned not with the production, but the social consequences of knowledge
Robert Merton; Burkart Holzner
