内容简介
The Report reaffirms UNESCO’s commitment to the social sciences, and our desire to set a new global agenda to
promote them as an invaluable tool for the advancement of the internationally agreed development goals. UNESCO,
with its emphasis on the management of social transformation, is concerned that the social sciences should be put to use
to improve human well-being and to respond to global challenges. As long ago as 1974, UNESCO’s General Conference
adopted a Recommendation on the Status of Scientific Researchers which emphasized ’the need to apply science and
technology in a great variety of specific fields of wider than national concern: namely such vast and complex problems as
the preservation of international peace and the elimination of want’.
In 1999, UNESCO published the first World Social
Science Report. Ten years later, UNESCO asked the
International Social Science Council (ISSC) to prepare
this second edition, which is published in 2010. The
main goal of this new Report is to present an overview
of the social sciences in the different areas of the world.
