scholarly journals How the COVID-19 pandemic impacts social scientific research on sustainability: questions of methodology, ethics and justice: comment on Santana et al. 2021

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danny Otto ◽  
Annegret Haase
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Justice Research ◽  
Research Organisation ◽  
Social Scientific Research ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Sustainable Futures

AbstractIn a highly relevant contribution, Santana et al. (2021) outlined the challenges for qualitative enquiries during the pandemic. We agree that overcoming these challenges is very important since qualitative research is vital for understanding both the impacts of COVID-19 on human communities around the globe and its significance for sustainable futures. However, we argue that a more fundamental approach is needed to address problems within scientific organisations, thinking and practices that directly affect qualitative research capabilities. In this comment, we focus on justice, research organisation, the ways social scientists position themselves and changed understandings of social worlds.

scholarly journals De-Signing the Object of Sociology: Toward an ‘Idiotic’ Methodology

2012 ◽  
Vol 60 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 166-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Michael
Keyword(s):  
Energy Demand ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Everyday Objects ◽  
Demand Reduction ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Scientific Research ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Isabelle Stengers ◽  
Speculative Design

This paper outlines a version of ‘live sociology’ that enacts and engages with the openness and processuality of events. This is initially explored through a focus on everyday objects that, in their relationality, ‘misbehave’, potentially challenging standard sociological framings. Drawing on the work of Isabelle Stengers, it is suggested that such objects can be understood as ‘idiotic’ – possessed of an incommensurability that enables social scientists to ‘slow down’ and reflect upon ‘what is busily being done’ (not least by the social scientists themselves). This responsiveness to the idiot object is then contrasted to the proactive idiocy of Speculative Design. Here, artefacts – probes and prototypes – are designed to have oblique and ambiguous functions that allow both their users and designers to open up what is at stake in particular events. Examples taken from past and current research are used to illustrate how speculative designs can open up what ‘the neighbourhood’ and ‘energy demand reduction’ can be. The paper ends with a discussion of a possible ‘idiotic methodology’ and its implications for the conceptual and practical doings of social scientific research.

scholarly journals Social Scientists on Crime in the 20th century

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Baptiste Fleury
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Social Scientific Research ◽  
Social Scientific

Social scientific research on crime in the 20th century

Social-Scientific Research Competency

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 737-750 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Gess ◽  
Christoph Geiger ◽  
Matthias Ziegler
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Research Performance ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Crystallized Intelligence ◽  
Research Competency ◽  
Social Scientific Research ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Education Courses

Abstract. Although the development of research competency is an important goal of higher education in social sciences, instruments to measure this outcome often depend on the students’ self-ratings. To provide empirical evidence for the utility of a newly developed instrument for the objective measurement of social-scientific research competency, two validation studies across two independent samples were conducted. Study 1 ( n = 675) provided evidence for unidimensionality, expected differences in test scores between differently advanced groups of students as well as incremental validities over and above self-perceived research self-efficacy. In Study 2 ( n = 82) it was demonstrated that the competency measured indeed is social-scientific and relations to facets of fluid and crystallized intelligence were analyzed. Overall, the results indicate that the test scores reflected a trainable, social-scientific, knowledge-related construct relevant to research performance. These are promising results for the application of the instrument in the evaluation of research education courses in higher education.

Imagining Generations and Social Change

2018 ◽  
pp. 11-35
Author(s):  
Peter Hart-Brinson
Keyword(s):  
Generation X ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Gay Marriage ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Generational Change ◽  
Social Imagination ◽  
Generational Theory ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Scientific Research ◽  
Social Scientific

This chapter explains the generational theory of Karl Mannheim and enumerates five challenges that scholars face when studying generational change. It shows how these changes have impeded social scientific research on generations and why research on Millennials, Generation X, and other broad cohorts is flawed from its first premises. To counteract the existing generational mythology, this chapter outlines what is required to produce social scientific studies of generational change. Recent scholarship on the “social generation” provides a theoretical and methodological opening for finally solving Mannheim’s “problem of generations.” Building on cross-disciplinary scholarship on the cognitive and cultural dimensions of the process of imagination, this chapter argues that the “social imagination” is the key concept that helps explain how public opinion about gay marriage changed.

scholarly journals Sosiologiese en antropologiese insigte en die studie van die Hebreeuse Bybel: 'n Bestekopname1

2000 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul A. Kruger
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Social Scientific Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Scientific Research ◽  
Social Scientific

Sociological and anthropological insights and the study of the Hebrew Bible: A review. This article reviews the main trends in the social-scientific study of the Hebrew Bible. It focuses on the following central issues: the theoretical principles underlying this approach, anthropologists and the Hebrew Bible, the Hebrew Bible and comparative anthropology, anthropological evidence from African cultures, and the Hebrew Bible in social-scientific research: perils and prospects.

'Do You Want To Receive A Missionary At Home?': Conversion And The Religious Market

Exchange ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-17
Author(s):  
Erik Sengers
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Research ◽  
Market Theory ◽  
Rational Actor ◽  
Social Scientific Research ◽  
Basic Characteristics ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
To Receive ◽  
At Home

AbstractThis paper offers an introduction in religious market theory on the basis of the theme of conversion. Conversions have everything to do with the religious market. Where people are looking for religious satisfaction, they will turn themselves to religious organisations that are willing to give that on certain conditions. Starting from the assumption of the rational actor, the theory makes some strong hypotheses on religious organisations and the religious market. What does the religious market look like, what are the basic characteristics of this market, and how can religious organisations interact with that market? However, when we discuss social-scientific research on conversion in Europe, the limits of religious market theory come to the fore. In the conclusion, the main questions that arise from religious market theory for the project Conversion Careers and Culture Politics in Pentecostalism are being discussed.

Meaningful Research of Meaning

1996 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 123-134
Author(s):  
Ilja Maso ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The Third ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Meaningful Research

In the first section of this contribution, three conditions for scientific research into answers to fundamental, existential questions are discussed. However, because these conditions seem to violate concepts such as 'intersubjectivity' and 'truth', the second section deals with the question in which way a scientific approach that satisfies these three conditions can still be called scientific. The 'possibilistic scientific view' that results from this investigation, will in the third section be exemplified by qualitative research. It will be demonstrated that this social scientific approach can meet the three aforementioned conditions. In the last section, one of the features of such a qualitative approach (and perhaps of any scientific approach) will be emphasized. 'Radical subjectivity' will be presented as a way to fully satisfy the third condition of research into questions of meaning.

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