Comment

1961 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-214
Author(s):  
William J. Goode
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Marriage Patterns ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Generation ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Cultural Data

The sociologist's apparent bias against historical data is founded in the main on the restricted definition of a “fact” which he has come to accept during the past generation. Having found by tedious and pedestrian work that many popular impressions about social relations in our own time are incorrect, he has become sceptical of the possibility of ascertaining the facts about historical populations whose members can no longer be interviewed or observed. But I sense among my fellow sociologists a diminishing parochialism and for this reason I welcome Lawrence Stone's work on marriage patterns among the English nobility in the 16th and 17th centuries. I should like to weigh his conclusions by reference both to general social science principles and to cross-cultural data.

Life Cycles in Social Science History

1999 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 481-489
Author(s):  
Andrew Abbott
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Science History ◽  
The Past ◽  
Social Science History ◽  
The Social ◽  
Definition Of

When one is asked to speak on the past, present, and future of social science history, one is less overwhelmed by the size of the task than confused by its indexicality. Whose definition of social science history? Which past? Or, put another way, whose past? Indeed, which and whose present? Moreover, should the task be taken as one of description, prescription, or analysis? Many of us might agree on, say, a descriptive analysis of the past of the Social Science History Association. But about the past of social science history as a general rather than purely associational phenomenon, we might differ considerably. The problem of description versus prescription only increases this obscurity.

White Skin Privilege: Modern Myth, Forgotten Past

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-82
Author(s):  
Peter Frost
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Selection Pressure ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
White Slavery ◽  
White Skin ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Preference ◽  
European Women ◽  
Modern Myth

Abstract European women dominate images of beauty, presumably because Europe has dominated the world for the past few centuries. Yet this presumed cause poorly explains “white slavery”—the commodification of European women for export at a time when their continent was much less dominant. Actually, there has long been a cross-cultural preference for lighter-skinned women, with the notable exception of modern Western culture. This cultural norm mirrors a physical norm: skin sexually differentiates at puberty, becoming fairer in girls, and browner and ruddier in boys. Europeans are also distinguished by a palette of hair and eye colors that likewise differs between the sexes, with women more often having the brighter hues. In general, the European phenotype, especially its brightly colored features, seems to be due to a selection pressure that targeted women, apparently sexual selection. Female beauty is thus a product of social relations, but not solely those of recent times.

scholarly journals Psychotherapy in Siberia: prospection from the past

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 18-24
Author(s):  
V. Ya. Semke
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
The Past ◽  
East Region

In the article there are cited the historical data on psychotherapy development in the east region of the country, mentioned the main stages of psychotherapeutic service perfection in Siberia, outlined the ways of organizational, clinical-dynamic and preventive approaches for the nearest and further prospects of scientific and practical psychotherapy making as a base of creation of a healthy and harmonious individual and social relations.

Reproduction, Production, Social Science, and the Past: A Dissenting Review

1987 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. L. Cornell
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social History ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Historical Sociology ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Definition Of

Social Scientists use historical data. Historians use social science concepts. The intersection of these two disciplines, history and social science, has been a vibrant source of research questions over the last fifteen years but also raises the issue of how they are to be interrelated. The search for an answer to this question has resulted in the publication of Theda Skocpol’s Vision and Method in Historical Sociology and Olivier Zunz’s Reliving the Past: The Worlds of Social History, which juxtapose the two words in different order. In Skocpol (1984) history modifies sociology; in Zunz (1985) social science modifies history. Both books are collections of articles. Skocpol’s volume contains nine reviews of the work of masters in this field along with an introduction and conclusion by the editor. Zunz’s has an introduction which reviews the literature of social history in five areas of the world: Western Europe, the United States, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and China. This review highlights the strength of Skocpol’s method and of Zunz’s commitment to analysis of non-Western societies but argues that both authors, in limiting their definition of the field to studies of production, ignore an equally vital topic for social analysis of the past, reproduction.

Theory of Mediation as a Branch of Knowledge

2019 ◽  
pp. 63-71
Author(s):  
Михаил Козюк ◽  
Mikhail Kozyuk
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Mediation Theory ◽  
Close Interaction ◽  
Social Technologies ◽  
First Pass ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Quality Of Research

Today, the national social science features fast-paced studies on the theory of mediation. However, the branch status of this area is still obscure, which affects the quality of research. The paper explores various approaches to the definition of this status with a critical eye. Particular attention is paid to the thesis on the interdisciplinarity of the mediation theory. The author shows the consequences of classifying the mediation theory as an interdisciplinary branch. It is also troublesome, from the author’s point of view, to refer mediation purely to law. Mediation refers to phenomena that originate from social technologies ordering social relations and removing social conflicts. Only sociology and history can become the foundation of a new scientific branch. However, the mediation theory must first pass the stage of disciplinary constitutionalization, since its close interaction with many modern branches of knowledge would mean dissolution in them.

The Registered Distance of the Celestial Sphere: Some Historical Cross-Cultural Data

1989 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 211-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Plug
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The Past ◽  
Celestial Sphere ◽  
The Last Two Millennia ◽  
Cultural Data ◽  
As If

Estimates of the diameters of the sun and moon expressed in centimetres have been reported by several authors in the past. These estimates imply that the sizes of the sun and moon are perceived as if these bodies are only some tens of metres distant. In this study five units of length that were used by ancient astronomers to estimate arcs on the celestial sphere were investigated. The purpose was to determine whether the lengths and angles represented by these units imply a specific registered distance of the star sphere. The sizes of the Babylonian cubit, Arab fitr and shibr, Greek eclipse digit, and Chinese chang support the conclusion that the registered distance of the stars was about 10 to 40 metres in these four cultures over the last two millennia.

Sexual Attitudes of Thai Students: An Exploratory Cross-Cultural Study

1970 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 190-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Wohl ◽  
Andrew Dunlop
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Cultural Study ◽  
Sexual Attitudes ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
University System ◽  
Science Interest ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cross Cultural Study ◽  
Thai Students ◽  
Thai University

Although anthropological studies of rural Thai have been appearing with some regularity over the past few years, there is very little literature available on Thai university students. Yet there has been a considerable expansion of the Thai university system in the last few years and its graduates play significant parts in Thai life. Undergraduates also are beginning to show some slight signs of restiveness, although at this point nothing like the expressiveness of their peers in other countries. Increased future attention to this population might be of general social science interest as well as practical value.

Dreams that Men Dare to Dream: The Role of Ideas in Western Modernization

1978 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 332-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Zuckerman
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Achievement Motivation ◽  
Demographic Transition ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Origin And Evolution ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Generation ◽  
Traditional Societies

For the better part of the past generation, social scientists have devoted much of their best effort to the study of modernization. Economists have examined growth and development. Demographers have detailed the demographic transition. Anthropoligists have observed the dissolution of traditional societies. Social psychologists have measured the emergence of achievement motivation. Sociologists have traced the myriad patterns of secularization, professionalization, bureaucratization, and rationalization. Yet for all their effort it seems scarcely an exaggeration to call modernization still the critical enigma of contemporary social science. Its meaning appears to recede ever further from us. Its substance grows more mysterious the more that it is studied, and its origin and evolution become more inexplicable.

Federal Administrative Regions

1936 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Fesler
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Central Problem ◽  
Administrative Structure ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Generation ◽  
American Students ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Federal Administration

The central problem of the administrative structure of government is that of defining administrative jurisdictions. It is only by carefully describing the spheres of activity of organization units and of their employees that responsibility for administrative errors can readily be located. If duties are clearly defined, and if the relations of particular units to other agencies are generally understood, offending units, together with their responsible personnel, may be called to task for failure to perform their assigned duties or for trespass on the spheres of others. The patency of these facts has led American students of federal administration to devote considerable attention to functional jurisdictions. During the past generation there have been a multitude of proposals for the reallocation of functions among the bureaus, departments, and independent establishments of the federal government. Intent upon these functional concerns, American students have denied or ignored the importance of the territorial definition of jurisdictions.

Beyond the Cheated Eye: Dickinson's Lyric Sociality

2010 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Cull
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Relation ◽  
Lyric Poetry ◽  
Social Embeddedness ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Generation ◽  
The Social

Ryan Cull, "Beyond the Cheated Eye: Dickinson's Lyric Sociality" (pp. 38––64) During the past generation, Dickinson scholarship has shown how historicist and printculture methodologies can illuminate the social nexus of even a notoriously reticent figure. It has also had a broader impact on how we think about lyric poetry in general. For Emily Dickinson's experiments with dual authorship, hybrid-collage forms, and the blurring of stylistic and formal lines between poem and letter indicate the social embeddedness of what critics often still consider a private genre. This essay blends these two lines of thought in order to consider the lyric (and here, especially, Dickinson's lyrics) not only as a socio-historically embedded form but also as a form that may have application to our theorizing of the social. The essay argues that in a sequence of poems and letters in the period from 1862 to 1863 Dickinson identifies a possessiveness at the heart of the lyrical subjectivity that poisons social relations and stands as the most pervasive legacy of Romanticism. The essay then shows how Dickinson criticism, which can serve as a microcosm of critical trends in general, critiques but never casts aside this post-Romantic subjectivity that still limits our social theorizing. Then it shows how Dickinson seeks to do just this, to present within her lyrics an alternative poetic subjectivity that makes possible a revolutionary, pacifistic (though not passive) form of social relation.

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