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The Problem

10.1093/oso/9780198787099.003.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Mats Alvesson ◽

Yiannis Gabriel ◽

Roland Paulsen

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Academic Research ◽

Social Scientists ◽

Research Papers ◽

Prestigious Journal ◽

The Past ◽

The Social ◽

Academic Researchers ◽

History Of ◽

Wide Gap

This chapter introduces ‘the problem’ of meaningless research in the social sciences. Over the past twenty years there has been an enormous growth in research publications, but never before in the history of humanity have so many social scientists written so much to so little effect. Academic research in the social sciences is often inward looking, addressed to small tribes of fellow researchers, and its purpose in what is increasingly a game is that of getting published in a prestigious journal. A wide gap has emerged between the esoteric concerns of social science researchers and the pressing issues facing today’s societies. The chapter critiques the inaccessibility of the language used by academic researchers, and the formulaic qualities of most research papers, fostered by the demands of the publishing game. It calls for a radical move from research for the sake of publishing to research that has something meaningful to say.

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Historical Overview of Qualitative Research in the Social Sciences

The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190847388.013.10 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 21-58

Author(s):

Svend Brinkmann ◽

Michael Hviid Jacobsen ◽

Søren Kristiansen

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Qualitative Research ◽

Social History ◽

Historical Overview ◽

Conceptual History ◽

The Social ◽

History Of ◽

Technological History

Qualitative research does not represent a monolithic, agreed-on approach to research but is a vibrant and contested field with many contradictions and different perspectives. To respect the multivoicedness of qualitative research, this chapter will approach its history in the plural—as a variety of histories. The chapter will work polyvocally and focus on six histories of qualitative research, which are sometimes overlapping, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes even incommensurable. They can be considered articulations of different discourses about the history of the field, which compete for researchers’ attention. The six histories are: (a) the conceptual history of qualitative research, (b) the internal history of qualitative research, (c) the marginalizing history of qualitative research, (d) the repressed history of qualitative research, (e) the social history of qualitative research, and (f) the technological history of qualitative research.

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Women in science: from images to data

Pure and Applied Chemistry ◽

10.1515/pac-2021-0201 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 0 (0) ◽

Author(s):

Catherine Jami

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Gender Gap ◽

Women Scientists ◽

Working Environment ◽

Women In Science ◽

Standing Committee ◽

Family Responsibilities ◽

Working Lives ◽

The Social ◽

History Of

Abstract In recent decades research in the social sciences, including in the history of science, has shown that women scientists continue to be depicted as exceptions to the rule that a normal scientist is a man. The underlying message is that being an outstanding scientist is incompatible with being an ordinary woman. From women scientists’ reported experiences, we learn that family responsibilities as well as sexism in their working environment are two major hindrances to their careers. This experience is now backed by statistical analysis, so that what used to be regarded as an individual problem for each woman of science can now be identified as a multi-layered social phenomenon, to be analysed and remedied as such. Over the last five years, international scientific unions have come together to address these issues, first through the Gender Gap in Science Project, and recently through the setting up of a Standing Committee for Gender Equality in Science (SCGES) whose task is to foster measures to reduce the barriers that women scientists have to surmount in their working lives.

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