The Perestroikan Challenge to Social Science.

Presents a challenge to the call of Bent Flyvberg, a commentator on urban planning and popular participation in social planning, for a phronetic as opposed to an epistemic discipline in social science. Analysis of his book 'Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Inquiry Falls and How It Can Succeed Again'; Discussion on phronesis at work; Contributions that phronesis makes in scientific explanation.