scholarly journals Gender, Diversity, and Methods in Political Science: A Theory of Selection and Survival Biases

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (03) ◽  
pp. 811-823 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shauna L. Shames ◽  
Tess Wise
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Hard Core ◽  
Core Data ◽  
Large N ◽  
Science Conference

ABSTRACT At a recent major political science conference, Tamara (not her real name) presented an in-depth qualitative study several years in the making, only to have the panelist speaking after her begin his remarks by saying, “And now back to the hard-core data.” By this, he meant quantitative, large-n data, which his work utilized. This moment highlights a series of tensions in our field relating to gender and methodology, and their effects, which this article explores and elucidates.

Continental Perspectives and the Study of Politics

1985 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 15-17
Author(s):  
Fred Dallmayr
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Science Teachers ◽  
Intellectual Style ◽  
Science Conference

Anyone attending a political science conference these days is likely to be overwhelmed by the extreme heterogeneity of viewpoints and approaches, a heterogeneity sometimes resembling a hopeless Babel of tongues. For decades there had been talk of paradigm changes and of the erosion of “mainstream” assumptions in the discipline; more recently, this ferment has been heightened by the influx of novel perspectives whose vocabulary and intellectual style bear a distinctly continental cast. Professional reaction to these perspectives has been varied: greeted by some as instant remedies they are bemoaned by others as alien intruders threatening an already fragile consensus. I perceive them as idioms in an ongoing conversation whose lines of argument are not merely whimsical and deserve the attention of political science teachers.

scholarly journals Estudio cualitativo sobre los procesos de construcción de la identidad en campesinos de Nuevo Mundo, Zacatecas / Qualitative study about the process of construction of the identity in peasants of Nuevo Mundo, Zacatecas

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-115
Author(s):  
Jesús Moya Vela
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Rural Populations ◽  
The Political

RESUMENCon teoría fundamentada, se construyeron categorías y códigos de análisis que permitieron abordar cómo es que un grupo de habitantes de un espacio rural, manifiestan sus procesos de subjetivación como resultado de las relaciones que este tipo de economía fomenta, y que son los elementos de interacción simbólica de su identidad. Lo anterior enmarcado en un contexto definido por el hecho de que la producción campesina se encuentra en lo que parecería ser un proceso de descomposición. Este trabajo es parte de una investigación que fue usada como proyecto de tesis para conseguir el grado de doctor en ciencia política.ABSTRACTWith grounded theory, categories and analysis codes were building and they have permitted on board how is it a group of rural populations, manifest their process of subjectivity how a result of the relations that this kind of economy promotes, and that are the interaction elements symbolic of their identity. The above marked in a context defined by the fact that the peasant production had been in decomposition. This work is part of a research that was used like a thesis project to towards the political science doctorate. 

University of East Africa Social Science Conference

1966 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 538-540
Author(s):  
Martin Lowenkopf
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Political Science ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Rural Settlement ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Science Conference ◽  
The University ◽  
Political Decisions ◽  
Economic Criteria

This conference brought together over 70 social scientists from the Kenyan, Tanzanian, and Ugandan constituent Colleges of the University of East Africa (with visitors from Zambia, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, and Rhodesia) for their annual inter-disciplinary, or rather trans-disciplinary, deliberations. Why ‘trans-disciplinary’? Because the historians discussed nationalism, politics, and church movements; political scientists discoursed on economics, rural settlement, agriculture, and education; sociologists criticised political decisions and economic criteria which hampered their investigations into resettlement programmes; and the economists, while speaking mostly about economics, were represented at virtually all panels, apparently to guard their disciplinary preserve against intrusions, presumptions and, in one case, elision with political science.

“Their Own Personal Unicorn”: The Workplace Experiences of Transgender Teachers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura C. Hart ◽  
Walter H. Hart
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
School Community ◽  
Professional Lives ◽  
District Leaders ◽  
Gender Identities ◽  
Needed Information ◽  
Workplace Experiences ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Lgbtq Students

Multiple studies have shown that transgender individuals routinely face increased levels of hostility and discrimination in the workplace compared to their cisgender peers; this is also true for transgender educators, who are often marginalized or silenced for expressing their gender diversity. Exploring the experiences of transgender teachers can provide much-needed information for school and district leaders seeking to support and affirm transgender individuals as valued members of the school community. The workplace experiences of six transgender educators in various teaching roles were examined in this qualitative study. The researchers utilized semistructured interviews to explore participants’ professional lives, focusing on factors that affected decisions to reveal or conceal their gender identities, the climate of the schools in which they worked, and their support for LGBTQ students. Findings suggest that while support for LGBTQ teachers is growing, heteronormativity persists in troubling ways, particularly for transgender educators. Implications of these findings for school and district leaders are discussed.

MASSIVELY DATA-PARALLEL MOLECULAR DYNAMICS

1992 ◽  
Vol 03 (04) ◽  
pp. 709-731
Author(s):  
ERNESTO BONOMI ◽  
MARCO TOMASSINI
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Dynamics ◽  
Heat Bath ◽  
Hard Core ◽  
Parallel Computers ◽  
Particle Systems ◽  
Data Parallel ◽  
Connection Machine ◽  
Large N ◽  
Parallel Molecular Dynamics ◽  
Dynamics Simulations

In light of present day data-parallel computers, an appraisal of molecular dynamics simulations of large N-particle systems, isolated or in contact with a heat-bath, is given. Special attention is focused 011 the Connection Machine CM-2. Particularly the cases of long-range potentials and impulsive hard-core interactions are discussed in detail. Data-parallel strategies including data distribution, communications and computation are presented and compared with well-known sequential approaches. The conclusion offered is that the methods described here are easy to design and offer the possibility of reasonably fast implementations for the reliable simulation of macroscopic samples of matter.

scholarly journals FICTION, EMPATHY, AND GENDER DIVERSITY

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 126-145
Author(s):  
Julie James
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Youth Care ◽  
Young Person ◽  
Critical Social Theory ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Child And Youth Care ◽  
And Gender

To better understand how using a novel in a child and youth care classroom impacts empathy in relation to gender diversity, a qualitative study was constructed. Data were gathered using an online questionnaire administered to child and youth care practitioner students. These students had engaged with the novel Scarborough (Hernandez, C. [2017]. Scarborough: A novel. Arsenal Pulp) in a course about foundational therapeutic knowledge. The study sought to identify: (a) what perceptions and emotions were evoked by engaging with the narrative of a young person exploring gender; (b) what, if any, aspects of empathetic connection emerged in relation to this exploration; and (c) what, if any, connections were made to the theoretical material taught in the course. The study incorporated child-and-youth-care-specific and critical social theory frameworks, and theorized about evocative objects and the concept of empathetic distress. The findings suggest that novel-based teaching can elicit from students, or help them express, higher-order empathy in relation to gender diversity, and that a narrative about the struggle to live as one’s genuine self is one possible pathway towards achieving this empathetic connection. Additional research is needed to investigate these preliminary findings and to address bias in the existing literature on adult education and the use of fiction.

scholarly journals The Gender Citation Gap in Undergraduate Student Research: Evidence from the Political Science Classroom

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 729-733
Author(s):  
Li-Yin Liu ◽  
Christopher J. Devine ◽  
Heidi Gauder
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Science Classroom ◽  
Undergraduate Research ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Methods Course ◽  
Average Percentage ◽  
Science Courses ◽  
Group Research ◽  
Discernible Effect

ABSTRACTPrevious studies documented a “gender citation gap” in political science whereby women are less likely to be cited in published research and course syllabi, especially by male scholars. However, no previous study examined citation patterns among students in political science courses to determine if similar patterns are evident in their research. This article analyzes an original database of individual as well as group research assignments from an undergraduate research methods course. Our analysis indicates that male students are significantly less likely than female students to cite research published by women—whether as first authors, any of the authors, or the average percentage of authors per team. However, in a subsequent group research assignment, gender diversity had no discernible effect on group citation patterns. We discuss the implications of these findings for current pedagogical practices and the future state of the discipline.

scholarly journals Politics a “Chilly” Environment for Undergraduate Women in Norway

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (03) ◽  
pp. 653-658 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cissy J. Ballen ◽  
Dahsol Lee ◽  
Lise Rakner ◽  
Sehoya Cotner
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
Classroom Behaviors ◽  
Class Participation ◽  
Undergraduate Women ◽  
Large N ◽  
The Social ◽  
Quantitative Results ◽  
The University ◽  
Gender Influences

ABSTRACTGender differences in academic performance and attitudes are widespread in male-stereotyped disciplines but rarely are studied in the social sciences. To assess the extent that gender influences the behavior of undergraduate women in political science, participation was analyzed in a large (N = 130) introductory comparative-politics class at the University of Bergen—a large public university in Norway. In the 2016 fall semester, observers documented classroom behaviors of men and women using a protocol that characterizes types of in-class participation. Findings showed that women participate less than expected given their observed numbers in the classroom. After the semester ended, we provided an opportunity for students to describe why they chose to participate and whether they felt that barriers existed in the classroom that prevented them from expressing their opinions. This article characterizes those responses and presents the first study to draw conclusions about the gendered educational experience in political science by integrating these qualitative and quantitative results.

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