scholarly journals “Fronteiras dos Movimentos Sociais” / "Frontiers of the Social Movements"

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (20) ◽  
pp. 7-25
Author(s):  
José Eduardo Leon Szwako ◽  
Monika Dowbor ◽  
Matheus Mazzilli Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Research Networks ◽  
Graduate Studies ◽  
Critical Dialogue ◽  
Academic Production ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
The Social ◽  
Robust Evidence ◽  
Academic Debate

O adensamento da produção acadêmica sobre movimentos sociais na última década no Brasil, quer nas Ciências Sociais ou ao redor delas, se expressa hoje na consolidação de redes de pesquisa e espaços de debate acadêmico em fóruns como, por exemplo, as últimas edições do Congresso Brasileiro de Sociologia e os encontros anuais da Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Sociais (Anpocs). Junto a tais redes e fóruns, é possível destacar como evidência robusta desse mesmo processo o volume crescente de dossiês temáticos, bem como de artigos publicados em diálogo constante e crítico com abordagens teóricas e autores internacionais. O dossiê ora apresentado se insere nesse ritmo de adensamento, explorando, nesta apresentação e nos artigos a seguir, debates sobre fenômenos e abordagens que, há algum tempo, têm recebido crescente atenção de pesquisas de movimentos sociais, expandindo as fronteiras analítico-conceituais desse campo de estudos e, assim, desafiando-o. AbstractThe intensification in academic production on social movements in the last decade in Brazil, whether within or around the Social Sciences, is expressed today in the consolidation of research networks and spaces for academic debate in forums such as, for example, the latest editions of the Brazilian Congress of Sociology and the annual meetings of the National Association of Graduate Studies in Social Sciences (Anpocs). Along with such networks and forums, it is possible to highlight as robust evidence of this same process the growing volume of thematic dossiers, as well as articles published in constant and critical dialogue with theoretical approaches and international authors. The dossier presented here falls within this pace of intensification, exploring, in this presentation and in the following articles, debates on phenomena and approaches that, for some time, have received increasing attention from research on social movements, expanding the analytical-conceptual frontiers of this field of studies and, thus, challenging it.

scholarly journals ALTERNANCE IN THE FORMATION OF COUNTRYSIDE EDUCATORS: LOOKING FOR MARKERS IN THE ACADEMIC PRODUCTIONS AND SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS OF EDUCATION STUDENTS

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (26) ◽  
pp. 339-350
Author(s):  
Josiane das Graças Carvalho ◽  
Lourdes Helena Da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Rural Education ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Academic Production ◽  
National Movement ◽  
The Social ◽  
Rural Teaching

The Education in the Countryside is part of a national movement that, starred by collective individuals of the countryside, has conquered several social, political and academic accomplishments. Among them, the Program of Support to Higher Education in Countryside Teaching – PROCAMPO, which has its origins in the fights and claims of social movements, allowed the creation of 42 new courses of Education in Rural Teaching in different Brazilian Higher Education Institutions. These courses work under Alternance training, between Time-School and Time-Community, contributing to the expansion, in our society, of the Formation by Alternance in the Higher Education, particularly in the Rural Education Graduation Courses, constituting a very recent phenomenon in the Brazilian Universities. Aiming to find a better comprehension about this educative phenomenon, the present paper has the purpose of presenting an overview of the national academic production about the alternance in the courses of formation of countryside educators, analyzing the social representations of alternance built by Rural Education students of the Federal University of Viçosa, looking for advance makers, challenges and perspectives in this pedagogical dynamic in the Higher Educaction.       

scholarly journals Changing Social Focusing in Indigenous Social Movements

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1/2) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. David Flynn ◽  
James M. Hay
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Social System ◽  
Centrality Measures ◽  
Northern Ontario ◽  
The Social ◽  
Incoming Information ◽  
Indigenous Social Movements ◽  
Self Immolation

Using complexity science, we develop a theory to explain why some social movements develop through stages of increasing intensity which we define as an increase in  social focusing. We name six such stages of focusing: disintegration, revitalization, religious, organisation, militaristic, and self-immolation. Our theory uses two variables from the social sciences: differentiation and centrality, where differentiation refers to the internal structure of a social system and centrality measures the variety of incoming information. The ratio of the two, differentiation/centrality (the d/c ratio) is a shorthand way of saying that centrality must be matched by a corresponding level of differentiation to maintain basic focusing. If centrality exceeds differentiation, then the result is a lack of focusing—disintegration. On the other hand, the more differentiation exceeds centrality, the more the system moves into the higher stages of social focusing, from revitalization to the final stage of self-immolation.   To test the theory we examine historically indigenous social movements, in particular, the Grassy Narrows movement in northern Ontario Canada. We also suggest how the theory might be applied to explain other examples of social movement, especially millenarian movements at the end of the 20th century. We also suggest sociocybernetic ways the rest of society and the social movement itself can change its own social focusing.

Actors

2019 ◽  
pp. 42-52
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Merkel ◽  
Hans-Jürgen Wagener
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Action Theory ◽  
System Change ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Subjective Assessments ◽  
Collective Decisions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Transformation Processes ◽  
Empirical Approaches

Methodological individualism is widely accepted in the social sciences as a fundamental theoretical paradigm. In this context, it means attributing collective decisions or societal acceptance to individual behaviour. From the perspective of action theory, the outcome of transformation processes therefore depends less on objective circumstances (structures) or power configurations than on the subjective assessments, strategies, and actions of the relevant actors. As a rule, elites are the predominant actors in political and in economic system change. Since in the transformation process the basic institutions of society are generally reformulated at the negotiating table, much of the attention is centred on negotiation theories that use game-theoretical tools. By contrast to modernization, culturalist, and structuralist theories, actor theories set out from the micro and meso levels of the actors. Different approaches can be discerned. Historical-empirical approaches do not go beyond the description of transformation processes. Economic public choice approaches assume rather simplistic motivational structures of actors. In actor-centred institutionalism, the social sciences find a typical fusion of paradigms: action- and structure-theoretical approaches are combined.

Introduction to the Special Issue on ‘Charisma’

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-114
Author(s):  
Maren Freudenberg ◽  
Tim Weitzel
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
The Social ◽  
Conceptual Debate ◽  
The Individual

The introduction to the special issue on ‘charisma’ offers a very brief overview of the development of the concept in the social sciences and various critiques and intersecting debates. It casts a close look at Max Weber’s sometimes contradictory use of the concept and the different ways he conceptualized it in his sociology of religion and his sociology of domination. It then examines alternative theoretical approaches to ‘charisma’ that emerge in the course of the twentieth century before outlining this special issue’s contribution to the conceptual debate and the individual articles’ operationalization of the term by viewing charisma as relational, communicative, procedural, as well as related to ideas, practices, and objects.

Lotta Lemmata

2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-236
Author(s):  
Philip R. P. Coelho ◽  
James E. McClure
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Model Formulation ◽  
Ceteris Paribus ◽  
The Social ◽  
Editorial Decision ◽  
Economic Reasoning ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Valid Time ◽  
Academic Debate ◽  
Long Chains

We quantify the increasing use of complex mathematics and show that the increase is unique to economics in the social sciences. Donald F. Gordon hypothesized that mathematics in economics would most likely be useful in manipulating long chains of relationships, precisely in the instances where the theory was least likely to be valid. Time bedevils long chains of economic reasoning, because the ceteris paribus assumption requires the stability of all links. We find that the rate of hypothesis testing in articles citing mathematically complex articles is less than 2 percent and summarize a variety of tests and other evidence that supports Gordon’s hypothesis. A major factor in the rise in mathematical complexity may be the decline in comments, replies, and rejoinders debating earlier publications; the decline has been rapid, as editors have become increasingly “hostile” toward perspectives other than the ones they have previously published. We conclude by emphasizing that (1) prominent journals in economics are devoting more space to mathematically complex articles despite their inconsequential operational harvest; (2) the “appropriate” balance between mathematical complexity and operationalism, as well as the relative merits of “stylized facts” versus observational reality, should be considered in editorial decision making; and, finally, (3) the academic debate that addresses empirical replication and verification, the appropriateness of model formulation, and the crucial matters of history and circumstance, which are the measures of all research in the social sciences, is vital.

scholarly journals Tramandare la memoria sociale del Novecento

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Heritage Preservation ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Social ◽  
University Of Florence

The volume contains the proceedings of the conference Tramandare la memoria sociale del Novecento (Florence, 11.21.2019), on the occasion of presenting Gino Cerrito’s archive. owned at present by the Social sciences library, University of Florence. Cerrito papers represent a primary source to investigate social movements in the XX century, especially anarchism, with particular reference to the War of Spain and to anarchical syndacalism between the two world wars. The project gave the opportunity to focus on the main issues concerning the preservation of the social memory of the XX century among experts and professionals. Historians, archivists, librarians, professors, association members and officers of the heritage preservation institutions discuss the problems and strategies confronting its conservation and enhancement. Investigate recent past requires a molteplicity of sources, beyond paper and through a great variety of expressions and media. And movements and their archives present peculiarities. Technical and political issues are considered, and a variety of cases and initiatives relating to archives dedicated to social movements and associations.

scholarly journals Editorial

Transfers ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Georgine Clarsen ◽  
Gijs Mom
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Innovative Research ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Agendas ◽  
Theoretical Developments

This is the twelfth issue of Transfers, and perhaps it is time to stop calling it a “new” journal! Our “baby” is growing up, thriving in an expanding landscape of interdisciplinary mobilities research. Transfers is maturing into a robust vehicle for global conversations.Our rather ambitious mission has been both conceptual and empirical: to “rethink mobilities” and provide publishing opportunities for innovative research. For us, that has been exemplified in our commitment in several areas. Most importantly, we fly the flag for the new theoretical approaches that continue to move the field beyond the social sciences, where the “new mobilities paradigm” was first articulated. We position ourselves as part of a vibrant intellectual project that bridges theoretical developments and research agendas in the humanities and the social sciences.

Norms: An Integrated Framework

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 467-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Horne ◽  
Stefanie Mollborn
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social Conflict ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Integrated Framework ◽  
The Past ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
The Social ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Do So

Norms are a foundational concept in sociology. Following a period of skepticism about norms as overly deterministic and as paying too little attention to social conflict, inequalities, and agency, the past 20 years have seen a proliferation of norms research across the social sciences. Here we focus on the burgeoning research in sociology to answer questions about where norms come from, why people enforce them, and how they are applied. To do so, we rely on three key theoretical approaches in the literature—consequentialist, relational, and agentic. As we apply these approaches, we explore their implications for what are arguably the two most fundamental issues in sociology—social order and inequality. We conclude by synthesizing and building on existing norms research to produce an integrated theoretical framework that can shed light on aspects of norms that are currently not well understood—in particular, their change and erosion.

scholarly journals Participant-driven photo-elicitation in library settings: A methodological discussion

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (125) ◽  
pp. 81-103
Author(s):  
Shailoo Bedi ◽  
Jenaya Webb
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Photo Elicitation ◽  
Research Experiences ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Library And Information Studies ◽  
Information Studies ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Productive Method

With the current attention in libraries on user-focused services and spaces, there is an increased interest in qualitative research methods that can provide insight into users’ experiences. In this paper, we advance photo-elicitation—a research method that employs photographs in interviews—as one such method. Although widely used in the social sciences, photo-elicitation has seen comparatively little uptake in Library and Information Studies (LIS). Here, we provide an overview of the method, consider epistemological and theoretical approaches, discuss cases of its application in library contexts and examine the benefits of using photo-elicitation for LIS research. We draw on our own research experiences and argue that photo-elicitation is a productive method for learning about the lived experiences of our users and for creating a collaborative approach to library research.

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