Journal articles: 'Sociology Social sciences Social sciences'

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Watanuki, Joji. "Social Sciences (Particularly Sociology)." TRENDS IN THE SCIENCES 2, no. 1 (1997): 46–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.5363/tits.2.46.

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Masters, Roger D. "Biological Perspectives in the Social Sciences." Politics and the Life Sciences 13, no. 1 (February 1994): 125–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0730938400022401.

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From July 31 to August 6, 1993, the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research and the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences at Dartmouth College cosponsored a Faculty Seminar on “Biological Perspectives in the Social Sciences” at Dartmouth. Participants included scholars and graduate students from anthropology, communications, economics, political science, psychology, and sociology, as well as representatives from business and the public sector.

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de Sierra, Gerónimo. "Social sciences in Uruguay." Social Science Information 44, no. 2-3 (June 2005): 473–520. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0539018405053295.

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In Uruguay, the development and institutionalization of the social sciences have been relatively delayed compared to other countries of the region. This fact contrasts with the socio-economic and sociopolitical development of the country, as well as with that of the professional branches of university education. The so-called formal foundational process of the social sciences effectively began in the 1970s, especially in history, economics and sociology. Political science and anthropology began to take shape only after the return to democracy in 1985. The military coup (1973-85) caused an interruption in the institutional status of the social sciences but did not entirely dismantle them. These sciences continued to develop in independent research centers, often receiving external funds. The exchange with foreign academic centers, especially the CLACSO and FLACSO nets, was germane to the process. With the return of democracy, the institutionalization process of the social sciences resumed and the link between the pre-dictatorship and post-dictatorship generations in these fields became more apparent. Simultaneously, the labor market for social scientists broadened and diversified.

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Benton, Ted, and Roget Trigg. "Understanding Social Science: A philosophical Introduction to the Social Sciences." Contemporary Sociology 16, no. 1 (January 1987): 95. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2071237.

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Muttaqin, Husnul. "MENUJU SOSIOLOGI PROFETIK." Jurnal Sosiologi Reflektif 10, no. 1 (September 9, 2016): 219. http://dx.doi.org/10.14421/jsr.v10i1.1147.

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Modern social sciences, including sociology, believe that religion is outside the world of science. The growth of the sciences is characterized by their secular perspectives. On the other side, the idea of islamization of social sciences is trapped in the dichotomy between secular social sciences and Islamic social sciences. In this article, the writer discuss an alternative paradigm of the integration between social science (Sociology) and religion. Based on the idea of Prophetic Social Science proposed by Kuntowijoyo, the writer states the importance of an alternative paradigm to develop sociology, called Prophetic Sociology. Prophetic Sociology is constructed based on three fundamental and integral pillars: humanization, liberation and transcendence.

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Klein, Herbert S. "The “Historical Turn” in the Social Sciences." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 48, no. 3 (November 2017): 295–312. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jinh_a_01159.

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The first professional societies in the United States, from the 1880s to the 1910s, understood history to be closely associated with the other social sciences. Even in the mid-twentieth century, history was still grouped with the other social sciences, along with economics, sociology, political science, and anthropology. But in the past few decades, history and anthropology in the United States (though not necessarily in other countries) have moved away from the social sciences to ally themselves with the humanities—paradoxically, just when the other social sciences are becoming more committed to historical research.

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House, James S. "The Culminating Crisis of American Sociology and Its Role in Social Science and Public Policy: An Autobiographical, Multimethod, Reflexive Perspective." Annual Review of Sociology 45, no. 1 (July 30, 2019): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-073117-041052.

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For over 50 years I have been, and remain, an interdisciplinary social scientist seeking to develop and apply social science to improve the well-being of human individuals and social life. Sociology has been my disciplinary home for 48 of these years. As a researcher/scholar, teacher, administrator, and member of review panels in both sociology and interdisciplinary organizations that include and/or intersect with sociology, I have sought to improve the quality and quantity of sociolog ists and sociolog y. This article offers my assessment as a participant observer of what (largely American) sociology has been over the course of my lifetime, which is virtually coterminous with the history of modern (post–World War II) sociology, and what it might become. I supplement my participant observations with those of others with similarly broad perspectives, and with broader literature and quantitative indicators on the state of sociology, social science, and society over this period. I entered sociology and social science at a time (the 1960s and early 1970s) when they were arguably their most dynamic and impactful, both within themselves and also with respect to intersections with other disciplines and the larger society. Whereas the third quarter of the twentieth century was a golden age of growth and development for sociology and the social sciences, the last quarter of that century saw sociology and much of social science—excepting economics and, to some extent, psychology—decline in size, coherence, and extradisciplinary connections and impact, not returning until the beginning of the twenty-first century, if at all, to levels reached in the early 1970s. Over this latter period, I and numerous other observers have bemoaned sociology's lack of intellectual unity (i.e., coherence and cohesion), along with attendant dissension and problems within the discipline and in its relation to the other social sciences and public policy. The twenty-first century has seen much of the discipline, and its American Sociological Association (ASA), turn toward public and critical sociology, yet this shift has come with no clear indicators of improvement of the state of the discipline and some suggestions of further decline. The reasons for and implications of all of this are complex, reflecting changes within the discipline and in its academic, scientific, and societal environments. This article can only offer initial thoughts and directions for future discussion, research, and action. I do, however, believe that sociology's problems are serious, arguably a crisis, and have been going on for almost a half-century, at the outset of which the future looked much brighter. It is unclear whether the discipline as now constituted can effectively confront, much less resolve, these problems. Sociolog ists continue to do excellent work, arguably in spite of rather than because of their location within the current discipline of sociolog y. They might realize the brighter future that appeared in the offing as of the early 1970s for sociology and its impact on other disciplines and society if they assumed new organizational and/or disciplinary forms, as has been increasingly occurring in other social sciences, the natural sciences, and even the humanities. Society needs more and better sociology. The question is how can we deliver it.

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Smelser, Neil J. "Social Sciences and Social Problems." International Sociology 11, no. 3 (September 1996): 275–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/026858096011003001.

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Wilson, Everett K., David L. Sills, and Robert K. Merton. "International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences: Vol. 19: Social Science Quotations." Contemporary Sociology 20, no. 4 (July 1991): 642. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2071888.

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Rezaev, Andrey, and Natalia Trgubova. "The Sociology of Social Intercourse in the Social Sciences." Sotsiologicheskoe Obozrenie / Russian Sociological Review 16, no. 2 (2017): 133–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.17323/1728-192x-2017-2-133-162.

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King, Gary. "Restructuring the Social Sciences: Reflections from Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science." PS: Political Science & Politics 47, no. 01 (December 29, 2013): 165–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049096513001534.

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AbstractThe social sciences are undergoing a dramatic transformation from studying problems to solving them; from making do with a small number of sparse data sets to analyzing increasing quantities of diverse, highly informative data; from isolated scholars toiling away on their own to larger scale, collaborative, interdisciplinary, lab-style research teams; and from a purely academic pursuit focused inward to having a major impact on public policy, commerce and industry, other academic fields, and some of the major problems that affect individuals and societies. In the midst of all this productive chaos, we have been building the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard, a new type of center intended to help foster and respond to these broader developments. We offer here some suggestions from our experiences for the increasing number of other universities that have begun to build similar institutions and for how we might work together to advance social science more generally.

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Brun, Eric. "Interdisciplinarity in French Social Sciences Scientific Journals." Dados 60, no. 3 (September 2017): 867–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/001152582017137.

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ABSTRACT Taking France as its example, the following article examines the relations between the disciplines of social sciences discovered during the arduous task of classifying French social sciences journals according to more specific disciplines (sociology, political science and anthropology, etc.). Based on a study of the journals’ own methods of self-labeling and the methods used to classify these journals by a French assessment body (AERES), as well as the forming of journal executive committees, the article highlights the fact that the journals frequently cover a range of disciplines, without this implying the disappearance of disciplinary structures. In fact, the article instead reveals that the connections made by the journals between the various disciplines of social sciences are unlikely and disproportionately represented.

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Sismondo, Sergio. "Bourdieu’s Rationalist Science of Science: Some Promises and Limitations." Cultural Sociology 5, no. 1 (January 31, 2011): 83–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1749975510389728.

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At several points over his career, Pierre Bourdieu articulated a framework for a sociology of science, derived mostly from a priori reasoning about scientific actors in competition for capital. This article offers a brief overview of Bourdieu’s framework, placing it in the context of dominant trends in Science and Technology Studies. Bourdieu provides an excellent justification for the project of the sociology of science, and some starting points for analysis. However, his framework suffers from his commitment to a vague evolutionary epistemology, and from his correlative and surprising neglect of science’s habituses, with their particular practices, boundaries, and political economies. To be productive, Bourdieu’s sociology of science would have to abandon its narrow rationalism and embrace the material complexity of the sciences.

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Di Bernardo, Giuliano. "Explanation in the social sciences." EPISTEMOLOGIA, no. 2 (November 2012): 197–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/epis2012-002002.

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This paper treats a classical topic of scientific epistemology from a new point of view. It considers biology to be a science intermediate between physics and sociology, and the transition from physics to biology as proceeding upwards. As a consequence, any type of reductionism will be avoided. The foundation of sociology can now be viewed as an extension of physics and biology. Indeed social reality is built by means of constitutive rules that create those social facts that have been denominated ‘institutional' (such as governments and all state institutions, marriage, and money). Having argued for the connection among values and norms (ought-to-be) and actions (is), the problem is that of justifying this connection. Can values and norms be reasons that explain action? Can reasons be understood as causes? In this paper the thesis is advocated that reasons are not sufficient for causally explaining actions. Taking up the classical analysis of ‘practical inference', I want to point out that, if from the reasons for action (understood as causes) logically followed the action itself, the reasons would be sufficient causes of the action: indeed, this would eliminate free will. For this reason, we must examine the problem of free will. My conclusion is in favor of the position of B. Libet, who has demonstrated free will experimentally, and therefore the nondeterministic nature of the practical-inferential model.

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Conrad, Jobst. "Climate Research and Climate Change: Reconsidering Social Science Perspectives." Nature and Culture 4, no. 2 (June 1, 2009): 113–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/nc.2009.040201.

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The article provides a general overview of social sciences perspectives to analyze and theorize climate research, climate discourse, and climate policy. First, referring to the basic paradigm of sociology, it points out the feasible scope and necessary methodology of environmental sociology as a social science concerning the analysis of physical nature. Second, it illustrates this epistemological conception by few examples, summarizing main results of corresponding climate-related social science investigations dealing with the development dynamics of climate research, the role of scientific (climate impact) assessments in politics, varying features and changes of climate discourses, climate policy formation, and knowledge diffusion from climate science. The receptivity of climate discourse and climate policy to the results of problem-oriented climate research is strongly shaped and limited by its multifarious character as well as by their own (internal) logics. The article shows that social sciences contribute their specific (conceptual) competences to problem-oriented research by addressing climate change and corresponding adaptation and mitigation strategies.

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Simonyan, Renald H. "Social Philosophy, Social Studies or Generality: the Problem of the Crisis of Sociology." Voprosy Filosofii, no. 3 (2021): 29–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.21146/0042-8744-2021-3-29-40.

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In recent decades, the crisis of sociology has been increasingly discussed in the social science discourse. Many well-known Russian and foreign sociologists have already spoken out on this issue. Discussions about the theoretical decline, the decline in the social status of sociological science, its transformation from fundamental to applied knowledge are reproduced at congresses and conferences, in numerous publications. The bibliography devoted to the crisis of sociology has dozens of sources, and this stream does not decrease. In line with this popular topic, the author substantiates his approach to the analysis of the crisis problem in sociology, which is based on epistemological contradictions laid down in the creation of the specialized science of society in the middle of the 19th century – during the rise of positivism, which denies classical philosophy and focuses on an empirical approach, demonstrated high efficiency in the natural sciences, yielding positive results. The article substantiates that the rejection of abstract thinking, the narrowing of the boundaries of knowledge to the framework of empirical knowledge, the reduction of cognitive activity to practical experience, the primacy of methodology over theory are the birth traumas of sociology that brought it to its current position.

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Alexander, Jeffrey C. "WHAT SOCIAL SCIENCE MUST LEARN FROM THE HUMANITIES." Sociologia & Antropologia 9, no. 1 (April 2019): 43–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2238-38752019v912.

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Abstract Identifying a shift away from a more humanistic approach in the sociology and political science practiced in the United States since the 1950s, Jeffrey Alexander seeks to recuperate an intellectual tradition of the social sciences that places the cultural meanings and subjective dimensions of social actions at the very centre of analysis, while simultaneously considering the structure nature of social life. Opposing the ‘great divide’ between social sciences and humanities, therefore, Alexander proposes, via his strong program of cultural sociology, a conception of sociology that considers social facts not as ‘things’ but as ‘texts,’ analysing how cultural meanings are socially rooted and structure social life.

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Sansone, Livio. "Eduardo Mondlane and the social sciences." Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology 10, no. 2 (December 2013): 73–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s1809-43412013000200003.

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Focusing on his life and academic production, especially the long eleven years that he spent in the United States, in this text I explore the complex relation between the first President of the Mozambique Liberation Front Eduardo Mondlane and the social sciences - the academic world of sociology and anthropology. I do so through an analysis of the correspondence between Mondlane and several social scientists, especially Melville Herskovits, the mentor for his master's and doctoral degrees in sociology, and Marvin Harris, who followed his famous study of race relations in Brazil with research in Lourenço Marques in 1958 on the system of social and race relations produced under Portuguese colonialism. My main argument is that his academic training bore on Mondlane's political style more than normally assumed in most biographical accounts.

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Mills, David. "'Internationalisation' and the Social Sciences." Learning and Teaching 1, no. 1 (March 1, 2008): 8–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/175522708783113505.

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We hear ever more about the internationalisation of higher education. As U.K. universities become increasingly exposed to the vagaries of international student demand, administrators are scrambling to develop ‘internationalisation’ strategies, whilst academics are being encouraged to incorporate ‘international perspectives’ into their curricula. Even the U.K.’s Centre for Learning and Teaching Sociology, Anthropology and Politics (C-SAP) has a strategic aim to promote ‘best practice in the internationalisation of the student learning experience’. It sounds impressive, but what does it mean in practice? Internationalisation has become a buzzword that everyone can use without having to agree on what they mean. The word’s descriptive malleability is its analytical downfall.

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Scott, Bernard. "Cybernetics for the Social Sciences." Brill Research Perspectives in Sociocybernetics and Complexity 1, no. 2 (April 15, 2021): 1–128. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/25900587-12340002.

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Abstract This publication meets a long-felt need to show the relevance of cybernetics for the social sciences (including psychology, sociology, and anthropology). User-friendly descriptions of the core concepts of cybernetics are provided, with examples of how they can be used in the social sciences. It is explained how cybernetics functions as a transdiscipline that unifies other disciplines and a metadiscipline that provides insights about how other disciplines function. An account of how cybernetics emerged as a distinct field is provided, following interdisciplinary meetings in the 1940s, convened to explore feedback and circular causality in biological and social systems. How encountering cybernetics transformed the author’s thinking and his understanding of life in general, is also recounted.

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Wrede, Sirpa. "Dictionary of Social Sciences." Sociological Research Online 7, no. 4 (November 2002): 83–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/136078040200700405.

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Trindade, Hélgio. "Social sciences in Brazil in perspective: foundation, consolidation and diversification." Social Science Information 44, no. 2-3 (June 2005): 283–357. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0539018405053291.

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The article analyzes the development of social sciences in Brazil from a historical-sociological standpoint as seen through the construction of three disciplines: sociology, anthropology and political science. Beginning with the political and cultural context and the pre-sociology “essayism” phase, the author outlines the initial foundation and institutionalization of the social sciences (1934-64), which started with the foundation of the University of São Paulo and ended with the military coup d’état in 1964. He then goes on to analyze the crisis of the “Populist Republic” and the impact of the ideological radicalization on the social sciences, with an emphasis on the paradox of their simultaneous professionalization and consolidation through research and teaching under the military dictatorship (1965-83). Finally, the author turns to the democratic transition that ended in the “New Republic” (1984-2003), stressing the nationalization of the social sciences and the parallel diversification and split between teaching and research. The analysis of the three historical periods addresses the dynamics of the social sciences and their relationship with the central and the federal states, the hierarchy of disciplines, the dominant topics and international exchange. In conclusion, the author raises the question that is fundamental for the future, that of the crisis of national and international funding for the social sciences.

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Kosiewicz, Jerzy. "Social Sciences and Common Perceptions of Sport." Physical Culture and Sport. Studies and Research 60, no. 1 (December 1, 2013): 64–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/pcssr-2013-0027.

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Abstract This paper provides a discussion on various aspects and features of the concept of the social sciences of sport. The concept originated recently and was formulated in 2007 during the preparations for the establishment of the International Society for the Social Sciences of Sport. The Society, however, was not formed until the beginning of 2009. Among other things, the concept includes such academic disciplines and fields as sport sociology, sport philosophy, sport psychology, sport pedagogy, the history of physical fitness, sport and Olympism, sport politics and the international conditions of sport, sport economics, sport organizations and management, the social and cultural foundations of tourism and recreation, the social relations regarding training and sport tactics, as well as the humanistic theory of martial arts. The author presents a growth in interest of different social aspects and issues of sport at the beginning of the twentieth century. He indicates the significant development of sport during the second half of the last century, especially towards its end and at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The social sciences of sport was also underlined as the reason for the creation of a new, dynamically developing cognitive paradigm. According to the Author, it is mainly connected with the institutional and functional, organizational and methodological conditions of the social science of sport which specifically complemented the educational and research standards for the academic community around the globe. The Author emphasizes the social sciences of sport’s distinctive and autonomous part in sport science due to its specific and detailed merit-related issues and methodological foundations. He also stresses that not only does natural science (particularly biological science) play an important role in sport science, but also that the social science of sport has a vital and fundamental value in it. In his opinion, natural (biological) science in relation to sport refers mainly to one person’s organism, whereas social science refers, for the most part, to the axiological, cultural, symbolical, esthetic, ethical perception of physical exertion. Moreover, research conducted in this field encompasses the professional, pragmatic, utilitarian, cathartic, escapist, ludic, hedonistic, epistemological and recreational aspects of differently perceived professional sports or sport for all. The Author points out that the amount of available courses - lectures, classes, seminars - in the field of social sciences themselves, as well as in the social science of sport, is being gradually reduced, which undoubtedly lowers not only the knowledge, but also the perception, interpretation, explanation and comprehension of sport in the context of the humanistic approach. Furthermore, he indicates this trend’s influential role in the development of common-sense thinking, which makes opinion-forming and valuable comments on the subject of sport undergo cognitive deformations. He points out its negative influence on the listeners, audience and fans’ consciousness, opinion and attitude, as well as on the interpretative context of the observed events - not only ones associated with sport, but also those happening beyond it, for instance in social, family, peer, professional, political and religious life.

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Eidelson, Roy J. "Complex Adaptive Systems in the Behavioral and Social Sciences." Review of General Psychology 1, no. 1 (March 1997): 42–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/1089-2680.1.1.42.

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This article examines applications of complexity theory within the behavioral and social sciences. Specific attention is given to the fundamental characteristics of complex adaptive systems (CAS)—such as individuals, groups, and societies—including the underlying structure of CAS, the internal dynamics of evolving CAS, and how CAS respond to their environment. Examples drawn from psychology, sociology, economics, and political science include attitude formation, majority–minority relations, social networks, family systems, psychotherapy, norm formation, organizational development, coalition formation, economic instabilities, urban development, the electoral process, political transitions, international relations, social movements, drug policy, and criminal behavior. The discussion also addresses the obstacles to implementing the CAS perspective in the behavioral and social sciences and implications for research methodology.

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Maravelakis, Petros. "The use of statistics in social sciences." Journal of Humanities and Applied Social Sciences 1, no. 2 (November 15, 2019): 87–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jhass-08-2019-0038.

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Purpose The purpose this paper is to review some of the statistical methods used in the field of social sciences. Design/methodology/approach A review of some of the statistical methodologies used in areas like survey methodology, official statistics, sociology, psychology, political science, criminology, public policy, marketing research, demography, education and economics. Findings Several areas are presented such as parametric modeling, nonparametric modeling and multivariate methods. Focus is also given to time series modeling, analysis of categorical data and sampling issues and other useful techniques for the analysis of data in the social sciences. Indicative references are given for all the above methods along with some insights for the application of these techniques. Originality/value This paper reviews some statistical methods that are used in social sciences and the authors draw the attention of researchers on less popular methods. The purpose is not to give technical details and also not to refer to all the existing techniques or to all the possible areas of statistics. The focus is mainly on the applied aspect of the techniques and the authors give insights about techniques that can be used to answer problems in the abovementioned areas of research.

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Titkov, A. S. "Foreword to M. Pournin's “Sociology and Social Sciences”." Sociology of Power 31, no. 4 (December 31, 2019): 210–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.22394/2074-0492-2019-4-210-214.

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Bollen, Kenneth A. "Instrumental Variables in Sociology and the Social Sciences." Annual Review of Sociology 38, no. 1 (August 11, 2012): 37–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-081309-150141.

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Romanovskiy, Nikolay V. "Sociology and Social Sciences: New Contexts of Interaction." Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya, no. 3 (March 2021): 146–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s013216250013848-5.

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Michalon, Jérôme. "Accounting for One Health: Insights from the social sciences." Parasite 27 (2020): 56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2020056.

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This paper discusses the relationship between One Health (OH) and the social sciences. Using a comparison between three narratives of the history of OH, it is argued that OH can be studied as a social phenomenon. The narrative of OH by its promoters (folk narratives) emphasizes two dimensions: OH as a renewal of veterinary medicine and OH as an institutional response to global health crises. Narratives from empirical social science work explore similar dimensions, but make them more complex. For political sociology, OH is the result of negotiations between the three international organisations (WHO, OIE and FAO), in a context of a global health crisis, which led to the reconfiguration of their respective mandates and scope of action: OH is a response to an institutional crisis. For the sociology of science, OH testifies to the evolution of the profession and veterinary science, enabling it to position itself as a promoter of interdisciplinarity, in a context of convergence between research and policy. In the Discussion section, I propose an approach to OH as an “epistemic watchword”: a concept whose objective is to make several actors work together (watchword), in a particular direction, that of the production of knowledge (epistemic).

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Maerk, Johannes. ""Ciência Cover" em ciências humanas e ciências sociais na América Latina." Conhecimento & Diversidade 9, no. 17 (October 4, 2017): 72. http://dx.doi.org/10.18316/rcd.v9i17.3411.

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Este pequeno ensaio trata de analisar o porquê de haver uma longa tradição nas ciências humanas e sociais na América Latina de importar, indiscriminadamente, teorias e conceitos dos países do Norte. Chamamos “Ciência Cover” a atitude de copiar os conceitos estranhos à realidade social latino-americana. Ao mesmo tempo, há esforços importantes de elaboração própria, como a teoria da dependência, a sociologia da exploração e o conceito de "imperialismo interno", que apontam para uma autêntica construção latino-americana de conhecimento.Palavras-chave: Ciência Cover. América Latina. Teoria da independência. Sociologia da exploração. Imperialismo interno."Science Cover" in Humanities and social sciences in Latin AmericaAbstractThis small essay tries to analyze why there is a long tradition in Latin American humanities and social sciences to import theories and concepts from the countries of the North. I call “cover science” an attitude of importing ideas and concepts from other regions and of applying them indiscriminately to local social realities. At the same time, there are important efforts of authentic Latin American knowledge construction such as dependency theory, the sociology of exploitation or the concept of "internal imperialism”.Keywords: Science cover. Latin America. Theory of independence. Sociology of exploration. Internal imperialism.

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López, José. "Enrolling the Social Sciences in Nanotechnoscience." Practicing Anthropology 28, no. 2 (April 1, 2006): 15–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/praa.28.2.t342l122wk60u648.

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This article presents a reflection on the challenges and opportunities associated with the now ubiquitous requests inviting social scientists to participate in ELSI (Ethical, Legal and Social Implications) type frameworks, attached to large science projects such as nanotechnoscience. It elaborates on some ideas presented in a panel discussion titled "On the Social and Ethical Impacts of Nanotechnology" in Winnipeg at the Canadian Sociological and Anthropological Association (CSAA) annual meeting in the spring of 2004. This was the first panel session devoted to nanotechnology in the CSAA. I begin by briefly developing some key ideas from the field of social studies of science in order to draw attention to the fact that scientific activity has always required the mobilisation of a variety of social, political, cultural and economic resources. Nanotechnoscience is no different. What is distinctive, however, is the perceived need to enrol the social sciences in ELSI-type programs as a way securing legitimacy and to contribute to the overall success of these initiatives. I suggest that it is important to attend to the types of discursive spaces and objects of knowledge that are opened up to the social sciences in these ELSI frameworks. In light of work in science studies, the notion that the social implications of the technology can be grasped by simply projecting current trends into the future has to be problematised and treated with great care. I conclude by suggesting that sociology and anthropology's most important contribution might lie not in contributing to the illusion of predictability and control, which nanotechnoscience is currently attempting to foster as a way of securing social, political, ethical and economic legitimacy for its endeavour, but in short-circuiting these processes.

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Monkkonen, Eric. "Introduction: History and the Other Social Sciences, Part 1." Social Science History 15, no. 2 (1991): 199–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0145553200021088.

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In this issue of Social Science History we begin a special series of articles surveying the impact and use of historical research and reasoning in the other social sciences—anthropology, economics, geography, political science, and sociology. The authors of the essays have been asked to analyze their disciplines so that readers will get a sense both of major issues and research directions and of influences. In addition, they have been asked to include in their references older important works as well as more recent ones, so that those in other disciplines may use the essays as bibliographic sources. After the series is completed, we expect to publish an expanded version of it as a separate book.

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George, Stacy Keogh. "Teaching globalisation in the social sciences." Learning and Teaching 10, no. 3 (December 1, 2017): 20–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/latiss.2017.100303.

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Abstract This article describes the incorporation of a refugee simulation into an upper-division sociology course on globalisation at a liberal arts institution in the United States. The simulation is designed to inform students of the refugee process in the United States by inviting participants to immerse themselves in refugee experiences by adopting identities of actual refugee families as they complete four stages of the refugee application process. Student reactions to the refugee simulation suggest that it is an effective tool for demonstrating the complexities of the refugee experience in the United States and for evoking social empathy.

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George, Stacy Keogh. "Teaching globalisation in the social sciences." Learning and Teaching 10, no. 3 (December 1, 2017): 20–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/latiss.2018.100303.

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This article describes the incorporation of a refugee simulation into an upper-division sociology course on globalisation at a liberal arts institution in the United States. The simulation is designed to inform students of the refugee process in the United States by inviting participants to immerse themselves in refugee experiences by adopting identities of actual refugee families as they complete four stages of the refugee application process. Student reactions to the refugee simulation suggest that it is an effective tool for demonstrating the complexities of the refugee experience in the United States and for evoking social empathy.

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Ilic, Vladimir. "Different conceptions of observation in sociology and anthropology." Sociologija 55, no. 4 (2013): 519–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/soc1304519i.

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The paper contains introductory considerations regarding the observation such as particular method and research procedure in social sciences. The observation is greatly neglected in favor of so called qualitative research methods or field work today. The observation is the strongest research procedure due to it has the most direct approach to the examined phenomena. In this text the different traditions of the observation in social sciences (sociology, psychology, anthropology, pedagogy) are considered. Present neglecting of observation is explained by the impact of epistemological as well as social factors. Former ones are related to the growing division among the philosophy of science and the methodologies of particular sciences. Latter are conditioned by subversive potential of observation in comparison to more fashioned methods and procedures.

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Boxill, Ian. "Science in the social sciences: A view from the Caribbean." Journal of Human Justice 6, no. 1 (September 1994): 100–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02587784.

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Montgomery, Robert L. "Can Missiology Incorporate More of the Social Sciences?" Missiology: An International Review 40, no. 3 (July 2012): 281–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009182961204000305.

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This article advocates improving the use of the social sciences in the field of missiology in the two main branches of American Protestantism, evangelical and mainline Christianity. The former branch needs to add sociology to the anthropology already being used in missiology and to stay in communication with these social scientific professional fields. The latter branch needs to add both sociology and anthropology to the theological-historical discipline already being used in missiology, especially in its theological seminaries. The reasons for the different approaches of the two branches are discussed. This is followed by recommendations to each branch for meeting the challenge of making a more effective use of the social sciences in aiding missiology to analyze the major shifts taking place in global religions, including Christianity. Notes on the potential contributions of the sociology of religion to missiology are added before concluding comments.

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McLaughlin, Neil. "Totalitarianism, Social Science, and the Margins: Peter Baehr, Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism and the Social Sciences." Canadian Journal of Sociology 35, no. 3 (August 22, 2010): 463–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/cjs8876.

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Marini, Margaret Mooney, and Burton Singer. "Causality in the Social Sciences." Sociological Methodology 18 (1988): 347. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/271053.

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Bacon, Phil, and Ernest Gellner. "Relativism and the Social Sciences." British Journal of Sociology 38, no. 1 (March 1987): 133. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/590599.

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Bryant, C. G. A., and J. O. Wisdom. "Philosophy of the Social Sciences." British Journal of Sociology 41, no. 2 (June 1990): 295. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/590879.

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Dobelstein, Andrew W., Graham C. Kinloch, and Raj P. Mohan. "Ideology and the Social Sciences." Contemporary Sociology 30, no. 6 (November 2001): 595. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3089006.

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HOLMES, LESLIE. "Social sciences and market transitions." European Journal of Sociology 43, no. 2 (August 2002): 273–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003975602001108.

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Both of these books can be highly recommended, but for different reasons. Christopher Hann's edited collection will help to raise the profile of the social anthropological approach in post-communist studies, and our awareness of attitudes ‘on the ground’, especially in rural communities. The methodologies of the Emigh and Szelényi collection will be more familiar to most readers, but the book contains valuable new data and some welcome problematising of concepts such as poverty and underclass.

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Fairbrother, Daniel. "Nuts and Bolts, Bells, Whistles, and Rust in the Social Sciences." Philosophy of the Social Sciences 47, no. 6 (December 8, 2016): 472–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0048393116679409.

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Here I discuss the philosophical contributions to Analytical Sociology and Social Mechanisms, a collection of essays edited by Pierre Demeulenaere. I begin by introducing the idea of a social mechanism and showing that it has already had an impact within empirical analytical sociology. I then discuss some examples of the philosophical work offered in Demeulenaere’s collection in support of this analytical “movement” in the social sciences. I argue that some of these examples demonstrate thin scholarship and only a veneer of philosophical argument, but that Jon Elster’s contribution fuses impressively philosophical analysis and social science. I conclude by suggesting that analytical sociologists should focus on producing sociological explanations not philosophical theories.

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Elling, Ray. "Reflections on the Health Social Sciences—Then and Now." International Journal of Health Services 37, no. 4 (October 2007): 601–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/hs.37.4.a.

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After its beginnings in the United States, medical sociology started to take hold in Germany in 1958 with a conference that resulted in the first book on medical sociology published in Germany. From uneasy marginality, the field has grown to include disciplines other than sociology—anthropology, economics, and political economy. Today, the field might best be called the “health social sciences.” The main body of work employs the consensual perspective, but work done using a class conflict perspective is increasingly significant.

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Lahire, Bernard. "Para una sociología disposicionalista y contextualista." Clivajes. Revista de Ciencias Sociales, no. 12 (February 10, 2020): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.25009/clivajes-rcs.v0i12.2580.

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La sensación de dispersión de los trabajos de ciencias humanas y sociales que experimentamos hoy día es, por parte, el producto de la extrema división social del trabajo científico en disciplinas separadas (con unas ciencias de lo “psíquico”, ciencias del “lenguaje”, de la “sociedad”, de la “economía”, de lo “político”, etc.) y en sectores especializados dentro de cada disciplina (sociología de la educación, de la familia, de la cultura, del trabajo, del deporte, etc.).For a dispositional and contextualist sociologySummaryThe sensation of dispersion of the works of human and social sciences that we experience today is, mainly, the product of the extreme social division of scientific work in separate disciplines (with some "psychic" sciences, "language" sciences, “society”, “economics”, “political” languages, and so forth.) and in specialized sectors within each discipline (sociology of education, family, culture, work, sports, etc.).Pour une sociologie dispositionaliste et contextualisteRésuméLa sensation de dispersion des travaux des sciences humaines et sociales que nous expérimentons actuellement c’est, d’une part, le produit de l’extrême division sociale du travail scientifique en disciplines séparées (avec des sciences du « psychique », sciences du « langage », de la « société », de l’économie, du « politique », etc.) et en secteurs spécialisés dans chaque discipline (sociologie de l’éducation, de la famille, de la culture, du travail, du sport, etc.)

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Juodaitytė, Audronė, Daiva Malinauskiene, and Nada Babić. "BREAKTHROUGH IN THE SOCIAL RESEARCH ON CHILDHOOD: SEARCH FOR THE METHODOLOGY OF INTERDISCIPLINARITY." SOCIAL WELFARE: INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH 1, no. 9 (December 9, 2019): 39. http://dx.doi.org/10.21277/sw.v1i9.434.

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<p>Recently in the sciences of social-humanitarian character (education science, sociology, cultural anthropology, psychology, political science, etc.) the methodological breakthrough has taken place. Therefore, the concept of childhood was started being conceptualized in the contexts of the sociocultural discourses of these sciences. Referring to the diversity of the existing opinions about childhood (ecological, cultural, sociological, etc.), the field of talking about its meanings is encountered in various sciences. It is similar to inter-directional negotiations taking place between natural sciences and social-humanitarian sciences. There is a search for all kinds of knowledge permitting to harmonize the approaches existing in sciences and develop the criticism of traditional approaches. It is interdisciplinary negotiations in research that become the practice of the birth of new knowledge about childhood and its sociocultural expression.</p>

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Akat, Asaf Savas. "On economics and social sciences." Philosophy & Social Criticism 39, no. 4-5 (April 8, 2013): 385–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0191453713477599.

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The global economic crisis makes closer collaboration between economics and other social sciences even more urgent. One major cause of divergence has been the attitudes of the parties towards the ‘market’. Yet, the market economy, in all its diversity, is one of the immutable facts of modern life. Understanding the causes of its survival will improve the dialogue. Another interesting puzzle is the lack of credible alternatives to it despite the depth of the crisis. The experience of the economists in constructing models of society based on the behaviour of individuals composing it can be valuable for other social sciences. We apply the framework developed by ‘institutional economics’ to gain insights into the relations between Islam, capitalism and democracy. The article finishes with some observations on Turkey and draws lessons for other Muslim societies.

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Cooke, Maeve. "Philosophy and the Social Sciences." Philosophy & Social Criticism 43, no. 3 (March 2017): 260–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0191453716671832.

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Heilbron, Johan. "The social sciences as an emerging global field." Current Sociology 62, no. 5 (October 10, 2013): 685–703. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011392113499739.

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Exploring the ‘globalization’ of the social sciences, this article first presents an historical interpretation of how transnational exchange in the social sciences has evolved. Earlier forms of international circulation are distinct from the more global arrangements that have emerged since the late twentieth century. Considering this globalizing field in more detail, it is argued that its predominant characteristic is a core–periphery structure, with a duopolistic Euro-American core, multiple semi-peripheries and a wide range of peripheries. Focusing on the global level, much of the existing research, however, has neglected the emergence of transnational regional structures. The formation of a transnational European field of social science is taken as an example of this process of transnational regionalization. The social sciences worldwide can thus be seen as a four-level structure. In addition to the local and national level, transnational regional as well as global structures have gained increasing importance and a better understanding of ‘globalization’ requires more precise studies of both levels, in their own right as well as in their evolving interconnectedness.

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