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First Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
Social science from Western countries continues to have the greatest global influence, but the field is expanding rapidly in Asia and Latin America, particularly in China and Brazil. In sub-Saharan Africa, social scientists from South Africa, Nigeria andKenya produce 75% of academic publications. In South Asia, barring some centres of excellence in India, social sciences as a whole have low priority. These are a few of the findings from World Social Science Report, 2010: Knowledge divides. Produced by the International Social Science Council (ISSC) and co-published with UNESCO, the Report is the first comprehensive overview of the field in over a decade. Hundreds of social scientists from ar...
UNESCO pub. Survey of the social sciences in Asia and Pacific - examines the historical background, the institutional framework of teaching and social research, number of sociologists and their occupational organizations, etc.; considers international cooperation and the role of UNESCO. Bibliography, diagrams, statistical tables.