"The research needed for social practice can best be characterized as research for social management or social engineering. It is a type of action research, a comparative research of the conditions and effects of various forms of social action, and research leading to social action."
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Kurt Lewin (1946) "Action research and minority problems". J Soc. Issues 2(4): p. 35.
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