Category/Continuum Thought Styles and Survey Research

1976 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Charles R. Tittle ◽  
Wayne J. Villemez
Keyword(s):  
Survey Research ◽  
Thought Styles

Ways and dynamics of reception of Ludwik Fleck’s work in the social sciences

2015 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-210
Author(s):  
Dimitri Ginev
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Clinical Medicine ◽  
Social Geography ◽  
Cognitive Sociology ◽  
Comparative Sociology ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Thought Styles

The problem of how to access and estimate the proliferation of receptions of Ludwik Fleck’s work in domains as diverse as social geography, history of clinical medicine, and cognitive sociology has long remained vexing. The approach suggested in this paper combines the hermeneutics of effective-historical reception with a version of epistemic reconstruction of intellectual history. Special emphasis is placed upon the forms of political contextualization of Fleck’s comparative sociology of thought styles. The author argues that the heterogeneity of receptions is essentially informed by the specificity of the ‘implicit reader’ Fleck assigned to his work. Interestingly enough, it is a ‘reader’ congruent with the post-metaphysical turns in the social sciences. This claim is defended by analyzing particular trajectories of reception of Fleck’s work.

A History of the Future: Carolyn Wood Sherif, Equitable Knowledge, and Feminist Psychology

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 422-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeanne Marecek
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Sociology Of Science ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Boundary Crossing ◽  
Feminist Psychology ◽  
The Future ◽  
Institutional Relations ◽  
Narrow Space ◽  
The Military ◽  
Thought Styles

Writing some 40 years ago, Carolyn Wood Sherif left a legacy of critical reflections on the fledgling field of feminist psychology. Here I read her work, not as a record of the past, but with an eye to the future. In the two works I consider in this essay, Sherif offered a scrutiny of the knowledge-producing practices and social relations of the psychology of her time, as well as an agenda for feminist research practice. I draw on Ludwik Fleck’s sociology of science to reflect on Sherif’s thoughts. For Fleck, scientific communities are thought collectives with characteristic styles of thinking that come to seem like objective reality. Sherif took issue with many thought styles of orthodox psychology, particularly the dicta that limited psychological inquiry to narrow space-time frameworks, thus erasing culture, history, and social structure. In addition, Sherif advocated for a critical consciousness of the institutional relations of psychology, in particular the ways that psychology buttressed and was buttressed by the military. Sherif’s concerns remain urgent today. I urge readers to join epistemological debates and boundary-crossing conversations. I also call on readers to join with social critics in examining the discipline’s place as a social institution.

scholarly journals Knowledge Co-Production and Transdisciplinarity: Opening Pandora’s Box

Water ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcela Brugnach ◽  
Gül Özerol
Keyword(s):  
Water Governance ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Governance System ◽  
Water Research ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Significant Step ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Thought Styles

This Special Issue aims to reflect on knowledge co-production and transdisciplinarity, exploring the mutual interaction between water governance and water research. We do so with contributions that bring examples from diverse parts of the world: Bolivia, Canada, Germany, Ghana, Namibia, the Netherlands, Palestine, and South Africa. Key insights brought by these contributions include the importance of engaging the actors from early stages of transdisciplinary research, and the need for an in-depth understanding of the diverse needs, competences, and power of actors and the water governance system in which knowledge co-production takes place. Further, several future research directions are identified, such as the examination of knowledge backgrounds according to the individual and collective thought styles of different actors. Together, the eight papers included in this Special Issue constitute a significant step toward a better understanding of knowledge co-production and transdisciplinarity, with a common thread for being reflective and clear about their complexity, and the political implications and risks they pose for inclusive, plural and just water research and governance.

Vernacularisation of Medical Writing in English: a Corpus-Based Study of Scholasticism

1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Päivi Pahta ◽  
Irma Taavitsainen
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Medical Writing ◽  
Scientific Thought ◽  
Early English ◽  
The University ◽  
Thought Styles ◽  
Qualitative Analyses

AbstractThe article proposes a model for linguistic analysis of scientific thought-styles, combining quantitative and qualitative analyses in the variationist frame and focusing on writings of the scholastic period. The first part of the article considers factors that led to the vernacularisation of scientific writings in fifteenth-century England and the sources, underlying traditions, and audiences of these writings. The empirical part focuses on two features typical of scholasticism: references to authorities and the use of prescriptive phrases. The results show statistical differences between varieties of writing. A close semantic analysis reveals a pattern which is related to the underlying layers of traditon and to the sociohistorical background of the texts. The material comes from a computer-readable Corpus of Early English Medical Writing 1375-1750, which the authors are compiling at the University of Helsinki.

Thought Styles: Critical Essays on Good Taste.

1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Christoph Brumann ◽  
Mary Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Good Taste ◽  
Thought Styles

scholarly journals Postgraduate science research skills: the role of creativity, tacit knowledge, thought styles and language

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Marie
Keyword(s):  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Research Skills ◽  
Creative Thought ◽  
Hypothesis Formation ◽  
Research Students ◽  
Thought Styles ◽  
The Relationship

This paper analyses three crucial research skills: problem identification, data collection and hypothesis formation. It concludes that science research students should be taught about the creative process as they are under pressures that can inhibit creative thought. They should also be taught the importance of tacit knowledge for learning how to do research, as this will aid the process. Styles of thought and language allow researchers to identify and solve problems and limit what the latter can be. Students may benefit from further knowledge of these, so they can understand why their interpretations differ from others and how to create truly original hypotheses. The paper calls for further research into the relationship between language and hypothesis formation.

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