Political Economy Approaches and a Changing Rural Geography

Rural History ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-129
Author(s):  
Paul Cloke
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Theoretical Ground ◽  
Rural Geography ◽  
The Past ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Widespread Adoption ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Critical Social Science ◽  
The Subject

As a ‘rural geographer’ it has been fascinating over the past few years to witness and participate in the rather ponderous lurch being made by the subject towards new theoretical approaches. In particular, ideas and concepts within the broader movement of critical social science, and under the umbrella of political economy, are now being widely discussed, but a fundamental and widespread adoption of new ideas has been both slothful and in some cases grudging. This is not to suggest that research in rural geography has remained unchanged through the 1980s. Indeed, a growth in the scale of rural research has been evident, and this research has become more applied and policy-oriented than ever before. Until quite recently, however, rural geography has lacked a vigorous push towards new theoretical ground and towards the analytical comparisons of these theories.

scholarly journals The origins of theoretical comprehension of adjective as a part of speech

Litera ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 203-209
Author(s):  
Zera Asanova
Keyword(s):  
Parts Of Speech ◽  
The Past ◽  
Part Of Speech ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Level Of Understanding ◽  
Crimean Tatar ◽  
Descriptive Method

The subject of this article is the examination theoretical approaches towards studying adjective as a part of speech, since the description of this lexical and grammatical group in the Crimean Tatar linguistics is incomplete. The aim goal consists in tracing the origins of theoretical comprehension of adjective as an independent part of speech. This linguistic research is based on the descriptive method. Methodological framework is comprised of the fundamental writing of prominent scholars: O. Jespersen, A. Potebnja, V. V. Vinogradov, A. M. Shcherbak, D. N. Shmelyov, and others. As a result, it was determined that the the word is attributed to a particular part of speech is in accordance with the scripted rules introduced by the linguists in the past. Languages and methods of their research have undergone significant changes. Accentuation of adjective among the parts of speech was related to the logical separation of the characteristic of thing from itself, on the level of understanding self-sufficiency of the characteristic as an empirical phenomenon, and the existence of special adjective words as names of quality. The acquired results and materials can be applied in basic and specialized educational courses on theoretical and practical grammar of the modern Crimean Tatar language in the section of “Morphology”.

Sizing Up the Beast

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathias Clasen
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Gothic Novel ◽  
Folk Tales ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Historical Circumstance ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Horror Fiction ◽  
Biocultural Approach ◽  
Constructivist Approaches

Horror fiction has been a legitimate object of academic study for several decades now. There are many competing theoretical approaches to horror and the Gothic, but the most prevalent approaches are seriously flawed. Constructivist approaches, which see horror as a product of historical circumstance, ignore the genre’s psychological and biological underpinnings and its deep history. Horror stretches back in time beyond the Gothic novel through folk tales to earlier oral narratives. Psychoanalytical approaches, which build on Freud’s theories of psychology, are scientifically obsolete and have a distorting effect on the subject matter, reducing horror to representations of psychosexual complexes. The chapter critically discusses existing approaches to horror, as well as horror as an affectively defined genre, and it argues for a consilient, biocultural approach which integrates other viable approaches within a framework based on biology and which builds on current social science.

Political Economy of Communication

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Levent Yaylagül
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Classical Political Economy ◽  
Economic Basis ◽  
Critical Social Science ◽  
The Media ◽  
Political Economy Approach ◽  
Critical Social

There are different approaches and schools in the field of mass communication. Political economy, in itself, is divided into a liberal or classical political economy and a critical—Marxist—political economy. According to the Marxist-oriented critical political economy approach, the economic basis of a society determines the superstructure of that society such as state, politics, culture, and ideology. Since media is very important in producing and reproducing existing relations of property and power in capitalist societies, it is important to analyze the media with a political economy approach. Briefly, in the context of the system of political economy of communication, the effects of capital and state on media contents are explained. In this section, after examining the origins and historical development of the field of political economy as a critical social science, the characteristics of contemporary critical political economy are put forward.

Logical Empiricism as Critical Theory? The Debate Continues

2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
John O’Neill ◽  
Thomas Uebel
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Vienna Circle ◽  
Welfare Economics ◽  
Logical Empiricism ◽  
Logical Empiricist ◽  
First Order ◽  
Classical Economics ◽  
Critical Social Science

AbstractIs logical empiricism incompatible with a critical social science? The longstanding assumption that it is incompatible has been prominent in recent debates about welfare economics. Sen’s development of a critical and descriptively rich welfare economics is taken by writers such as Putnam, Walsh and Sen to involve the excising of the influence of logical empiricism on neo-classical economics. However, this view stands in contrast to the descriptively rich contributions to political economy of members of the left Vienna Circle, such as Otto Neurath. This paper considers the compatibility of the meta-theoretical commitments of Neurath and others in the logical empiricist tradition with this first-order critical political economy.

Theoretical Approaches to Inflation Expectation Management Justification in Today’s Russia

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 (6) ◽  
pp. 35-51
Author(s):  
Ilya Gurov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Environment ◽  
Inflation Expectations ◽  
Economic Agents ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Inflation Expectation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Inflation Forecasts ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Expectation Management ◽  
The Subject

Inflation expectations significantly influence economic environment. During the past decades there was high and unstable inflation and systematic excess and mismatch between actual inflation and official forecasts in Russia. At present economic agents have low level of trust in official inflation forecasts. The subject of the research are inflation expectations in Russia. The aim of the research is to justify the possibility of inflation expectation management provision in Russia. The article shows that currently, nowadays inflation expectations are predominantly adaptive in Russia. Nevertheless, inflation reduction and stabilization in 2011-2013 can become the basis for inflation expectations anchor provision and perceived inflation uncertainty minimization.

Through Glasses Darkly: An Assessment of Various Theoretical Approaches to Interamerican Relations

1977 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yale H. Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Latin American ◽  
North American ◽  
Bureaucratic Politics ◽  
The Past ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
The Subject ◽  
First Time

In the past decade or so the international relations of Latin America—for many years the subject of legalistic, institutional, polemical, or purely descriptive analyses—has been investigated on a much more sophisticated basis. Dependencia has emerged as a major organizing concept in much of the literature, and “bureaucratic politics” has provided a focus for some of the work emanating from North American scholars on U.S. Latin American policies. There are a number of other frameworks as well. Welcome as the wealth of new studies is, they nevertheless present us for the first time with a problem of assessing the utility of various theoretical approaches or at least with the challenge of relating them to one another in a meaningful fashion.

The Origins of British ‘Social Science’: Political Economy, Natural Science and Statistics, 1830–1835

1983 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 587-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence Goldman
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Science ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Linguistic Context ◽  
History Of Sociology ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
History Of

The history of ‘sociology’ as it has been written in the last generation is largely a history of fictions. It is characterized by the various mythologies that Skinner isolated in 1969 in his attempt ‘to uncover the extent to which the current historical study of ethical, political, religious and other such ideas is contaminated by the unconscious application of paradigms whose familiarity to the historian disguises an essential inapplicability to the past’. In a now familiar argument - that to Construct a truly ‘historical’ history of ideas we must concentrate on the actual intentions of historical agents, setting those intentions within their wider social, and, above all, linguistic context – Skinner anatomized the varieties of intellectual disfiguration to such an enterprise: the ‘mythology of doctrines’ where ‘the historian issetby the expectation that each classic writer (in the history, say, of ethical or political ideas) will be found to enunciate some doctrine on each of the topics regarded as constitutive of his subject’; the ‘mythology of coherence’, which substitutes a spurious unity and homogeneity for the fragments of an agent’s thought; the ‘mythology’ of prolepsis’ by which the actions of an historical agent are invested with retrospective significance unacknowledged in the actual intentions of the agent at the time; and the ‘mythology of parochialism’ where ‘the historian may conceptualize an argument in such a way that its alien elements are dissolved into an apparent but misleading familiarity’.

THE RETURN OF IMPERIALISM TO SOCIAL SCIENCE

2004 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 427-441 ◽  
Author(s):  
VIVEK CHIBBER
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Third World ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Imperial Expansion ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Third World

ONE OF THE CURIOUS DEVELOPMENTS in intellectual circles over the past few years is that the subject of imperialism is no longer a bailiwick of the Left. To be sure, so long as colonial empires were in strength, there was no denying the reality of European and American imperial expansion. But over the course of the post-war era, as decolonization rippled through the Third World and the formal mechanisms of colonial control were thrown overboard, any insistence on the continuing salience of imperialism became identified with left-wing ideologies. If it did enter mainstream debates, it was inevitably Soviet or, more generically, Communist imperial ambitions that were subjected to scrutiny.

scholarly journals Working the Rural-Urban Divide

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 10-15
Author(s):  
Mindi Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Production System ◽  
Household Production ◽  
Guizhou Province ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Plant Product ◽  
Forthcoming Book ◽  
The Subject

Alexander F. Day is not only an avid consumer of Chinese tea, he has taken up this plant, product, and production system as the subject for his forthcoming book. Situated in Meitan county in Guizhou province—the county that currently boasts the largest planted area of tea in China—his research traces the interplay of tea, labor, and political economy and the shift from household production to industrialisation from the 1920s to the present. Day combines archival research and fieldwork, making regular trips to Meitan, where he collaborates with local tea historians. His work connects the past and the present, and provides insights into how studying the contemporary period sheds light on earlier periods and vice versa. The following is a lightly edited version of our interview about Alexander’s current book project.

The Allied Social Science Meetings Diversity Versus Inclusivity

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Bartlett ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Program Committee ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
The Past ◽  
Educational Backgrounds ◽  
Economic Association ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Structural Barrier ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Institutional Representation

Over the past four decades, the leadership of the American Economic Association (AEA) has increase the number of women and minorities on its program at the annual Allied Social Science Association (ASSA) meetings. There are three reasons to diversifying the participants on the program. First, including women and minorities on the program make the demographic characteristics, or identities, of the meetings’ participants more representative of the demographics of the profession. Second, having more women, people of color and foreign-born economists on the program encourages doubtful members of other minorities to become economists. Third, there is a belief that incorporating a wider range of economists, with different experiences and educational backgrounds, at the meetings will enrich the conversations and spur new ideas. Inclusivity implies an openness and willingness to incorporate different ways of thinking and perspectives. While the ASSA meetings appear to be more diverse with respect to institutional representation and gender, the evidence suggests that there is a structural barrier of hidden beneath the surface of these two demographics that prohibit inclusivity: class as measured by the strength of economists’ top Ph.D. granting institutional connections. To uncover this barrier, this study examines the structure of the ASSA, the diversity of the ASSA Program Committee and the resultant diversity of the AEA program participants over the past 40 years. Findings suggest that increased diversity does not guarantee increased inclusivity.

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