EPSY 505

Credit: 4 hours.

Examines how practitioners and policy makers come to interpret sources of evidence; how the use of data, information, and evidence are shaped by organizational structures, routines, and cultures; how technical infrastructures have emerged to enable the collection, distribution, consolidation, and use of data, information, and evidence; the political economy of generated and using evidence (e.g., university research, think tanks, advocacy organizations, etc.). This multidisciplinary course is situated against the broad backdrop of the social science literature on social scientific knowledge production and use, and the relationship between science and society.