‘Science’ and ‘Culture’ in University Settings. Areas of Overlap? Areas of Tension? Or, Areas of Mutual Complementarity?

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 319-329
Author(s):  
Milena Žic Fuchs
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Science And Culture ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
University Settings ◽  
Research Domains ◽  
Independent Thought

On the one hand, ‘interdisciplinarity’ in all its formats, ranging from multi- to transdisciplinarity, has become the focal point of research agendas and a high priority of many funding bodies, while, on the other hand, universities by and large still remain discipline-oriented. This ‘tension’ is especially manifest between ‘science’ and ‘culture’ in the sense of bridging gaps between disciplines and research domains. The main roles of the Humanities and Social Sciences can be said to be the development of critical and independent thought, the identification and dissemination of important social and cultural values, as well as challenging widely held assumptions and beliefs. This article focuses on new ‘interpretations’ of knowledge seen as the fundamental link, which can, within university programmes, raise the awareness of the importance of the Humanities and Social Sciences on one hand, but, more importantly, also put into a much wider context the different ‘knowledges’ necessary for the contemporary understanding of how ‘science’ should be geared towards the individual, society, as well as the global community at large.*

Some Remarks on the Logic of Explanation in the Social Sciences

1970 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 64-81
Author(s):  
Albrecht Wellmer
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Scientific Explanation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Analytical Philosophy ◽  
Practical Consequence ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual

If one were to write a history of the philosophy of science in the spirit of T. S. Kuhn, one would have to consider the model of scientific explanation which Popper proposed and Hempel and Oppenheim developed to be one of the great paradigms of contemporary analytical philosophy of science. This analogue to the historically important paradigms of the individual sciences seems to me to be justifiable for the following reasons: first, the Hempel—Oppenheim model (or HO-model, as I shall call it) claims universal methodological validity; second, discussions on the problem of explanation have centred on this model for some time; third, the recent cognitive progress in this field has been largely the result of the interrelation between criticism of this model on the one hand and its improvement and explication on the other hand; and lastly, this model stands for a particular comprehension of the problems and possibilities of science, a concept of quite important practical consequence.

Der kranke Mann im Golus

Aschkenas ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-195
Author(s):  
Andreas Kilcher
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
The One

Abstract Zionism is rooted in the programme for overcoming the Diaspora. The descriptions of this programme go hand in hand with an in-depth »diagnosis« of the sufferings of the Diaspora as a symptom of the ongoing animosity towards Jews and their persecution even, and particularly, in the age of emancipation. This cultural, social and political diagnosis was described in Zionism - and it is no coincidence that this happened mostly through physicians - as the medical and psychiatric pathologization of the »Jewish people’s body«. In this process of naturalization and scientification paradigms and methods of the contemporary humanities and social sciences were applied, including concepts as controversial as that of the »Jewish race«. The present analysis examines this medical account from two complementary perspectives: the medical verbalization of the political discourse of Zionism on the one hand (Leon Pinsker, Max Nordau, etc.), and the politicization of medicine on the other (Arthur Kahn, Felix Theilhaber, etc.).

The Humanities and Social Sciences

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lutz Raphael
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Dynamic Change ◽  
Political Pluralism ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
German Nation ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
The One ◽  
New Research ◽  
New Democracy

For the humanities and social sciences, the Weimar Republic was a period of dynamic change. Academics from these fields were deeply engaged in public debates and intellectual controversies about the nature of modernity and the future of the German nation after its defeat in the First World War. The national-conservative majority of the faculty kept their distance from the new democracy, criticizing new forms of cultural and political pluralism as being symptomatic of a crisis of national culture. However, the search for intellectual orientation fuelled new approaches in the humanities: ‘objective idealism’, holistic approaches, and new research methods opened up innovative perspectives in history, theology, philosophy, and literary criticism. Yet these new approaches had ambivalent political outcomes: on the one hand, they led to an engagement with the mixture of nationalist völkisch ideas that became state ideology between 1933 and 1945. On the other, during the Weimar era methodological realignment was embraced by many critical approaches in the humanities and social sciences, whose proponents went into exile in 1933.

Some Remarks on the Logic of Explanation in the Social Sciences

1970 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 64-81
Author(s):  
Albrecht Wellmer
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Scientific Explanation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Analytical Philosophy ◽  
Practical Consequence ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual

If one were to write a history of the philosophy of science in the spirit of T. S. Kuhn, one would have to consider the model of scientific explanation which Popper proposed and Hempel and Oppenheim developed to be one of the great paradigms of contemporary analytical philosophy of science. This analogue to the historically important paradigms of the individual sciences seems to me to be justifiable for the following reasons: first, the Hempel—Oppenheim model (or HO-model, as I shall call it) claims universal methodological validity; second, discussions on the problem of explanation have centred on this model for some time; third, the recent cognitive progress in this field has been largely the result of the interrelation between criticism of this model on the one hand and its improvement and explication on the other hand; and lastly, this model stands for a particular comprehension of the problems and possibilities of science, a concept of quite important practical consequence.

scholarly journals Maximum Dissemination: A possible model for society journals in the humanities and social sciences to support "Open" while retaining their subscription revenue

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
John G. Dove
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
The Other ◽  
Unauthorized Access ◽  
American Council ◽  
Learned Societies ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

It is well recognized that one of the hardest problems in the Open Access arena is how to ‘flip’ the flagship society journals in the humanities and social sciences. Their revenue from a flagship journal is critical to the scholarly society. On the one hand, it is true that the paywall which guards the subscription system from unauthorized access is marginalizing whole categories of scholars and learners. On the other hand, “flipping”to an APC based model simply marginalizes some of the same people and institutions on the authorship side. Various endowment or subsidy models of flipping create the idea of Samaritans and “freeloaders” which bring into question their sustainability. I propose re-thinking the relationship between publisher and author. The publisher should act as the experts in dissemination and should take on the responsibility of maximizing the dissemination of the author’s work by providing the author’s accepted manuscript (AAM) to an appropriate repository and taking down the paywall. When requests for an article come to the publisher instead of presenting non-subscribers with a paywall, they instead direct the request to the repository in which the AAM has been archived. This walk-through of Maximum Dissemination is followed by: A statement from Princeton’s Professor Stanley Katz, president emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies A youtube video by Associate Professor of Sociology Smith Radhakrishnan which is attached to this submission, is available at http://youtu.be/sPO66vuTFJ0.

From the Visual Turn to Turned Up Visuality

2019 ◽  
pp. 80-100
Author(s):  
Julien Bucher ◽  
Anja Weller
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Visual Presentation ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Visual Mode ◽  
Visual Research ◽  
The Future ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
Future Direction ◽  
The Individual

The humanities and social sciences discovered the field of visual research in the 1990s and proclaimed several “turns” to emphasize the importance of visuality (or the visual mode) and shape the future direction of research: imagic turn, pictorial turn, iconic turn, and visualistic turn. Almost 30 years later, the individual lifeworlds are heavily influenced by the digitalization of technologies and the globalization of material and immaterial goods – products, ideas, and imaginations that rely on certain ways of visual presentation, images, and visual media in general. The individual lifeworlds are increasingly based on digitally mediated visuals and the interaction with as well as the communication using them (often intertwined with direct ways to interact, like touch, speech, or gestures). Visual-based alternatives to commonly used methods like interviews and surveys are discussed, finishing off with an introduction to the methodology of the creative interview, a qualitative instrument to gain and explicate information, and imaginations using respondent-produced sketches and drawings.

Gerichte und ihre Äquivalente

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Context Sensitive ◽  
Rich Picture ◽  
Constitutional State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Conflict Regulation

This book addresses the forms and ramifications of conflict regulation, which has been the increasing focus of context-sensitive legal research. It paints a theoretically and empirically rich picture of the search for justice and the balancing of interests outside the formal legal system and on the basis of religious or cultural values that differ from those of a liberal ‘Western’ constitutional state. A focal point of the book is the role played by the European Union in strengthening such legal alternatives. It also presents selected lectures from the seminar ‘Recht im Kontext’, which was held at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, and is aimed at both legal scholars and those in the social sciences who desire interdisciplinary debate. With contributions by Antoine Duval, Steffen Hintelang, Michael Stürner, Naoko Matsumoto, Sylvia Tellenbach, Alejandro Chhetman.

The frame thinking, i.e. the individual – but generalized – thought experiment supported by participant observation

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 21-39
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Trela
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Euclidean Geometry ◽  
Thought Experiment ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Oral Culture ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
The Individual

The essay presents an outline of the arguments for relativistic theses. Theses: about the theoretical incommensurability and undetermined translation interpreted in ethnic languages (Polish and Swahili). I justify the statement that the conceptual framework of individual languages – by analogy – to the analysed examples are mutually and fundamentally untranslatable. Untranslatable, at least concerning the fundamentally different cultural traditions characterizing the civilization of writing versus oral culture. I also indirectly justify the legitimacy of questioning the linear concept of development based on the involuntary acceptance in the humanities and social sciences of Euclidean geometry. Consequently, the article is part of a series of publications in which I argue for the need to reconstruct fundamental epistemological categories.

scholarly journals Región v štruktúre územnej samosprávy

2020 ◽  
pp. 135-148
Author(s):  
Kristína Hoghová
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Future Direction ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Self

The concept of regional identity encompasses a number of fields, elements and subjects that create it. There are many definitions in the current scientific literature characterizing this topic. We encounter a large number of definitions, mainly in foreign studies. Under the conditions of the Slovak Republic, this field is much less explored. On the one hand, the individual self-governing regional units strive to maintain their uniqueness and preserve their historical and cultural values, economic or social status. On the other hand, they implement regional identity in their Social and Economic Development Programs minimally. It is the citizens themselves, visitors, investors, public and private subjects, central government and many other factors that shape the region's identity in Slovakia. The Regional Identity Index (IRI) is an effective tool for measuring regional identity in each self-governing region. Thus, it determines the overall level achieved in a certain period and can lead to useful information about the functioning and future direction of the territory. However, the calculation of IRI in the conditions of Slovak self-governing regions is significantly absent. Based on the research problem, the main aim of this paper is to propose an IRI for self-governing regions in the conditions of the Slovak Republic. The calculation will be formulated through quantitative data and factors, predefined and implemented schemes in practice. Príspevok poukazuje na skutočnosť, že systematický každoročný výpočet indikátorov môže byť nie len pre samosprávne kraje, ale aj miestne samosprávy (obce a mestá) smerodajným pri vypracovaní strategických dokumentov v oblasti územného rozvoja, prijímaním miestnych politík či budovaním marketingovej stratégie územia, čím by sa zvyšovala konkurencieschopnosť a regionálny rozvoj vo všetkých úrovniach územnej samosprávy. The paper points out that the systematic annual calculation of indicators can be decisive not only for the self-governing units, but also for local self-governments (municipalities) in the preparation of strategic documents in the fields of spatial development, adopting local policies or building the marketing strategy of the territory. This would increase competitiveness and regional development at all levels of territorial self-government.

scholarly journals Hedging modal adverbs in Slovenian academic discourse

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-180
Author(s):  
Jakob Lenardič ◽  
Darja Fišer
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Extensive Discussion ◽  
Proficiency Levels ◽  
Academic Texts ◽  
Proficiency Level ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
The One ◽  
Modal Adverbs

This paper first presents a comparative analysis of modal adverbs in doctoral theses in the humanities and social sciences on the one hand, and in natural and technical sciences on the other from the 1.7-billion-token corpus of Slovenian academic texts KAS (Erjavec et al., 2019a). Using a randomized concordance analysis, we observe the epistemic and non-epistemic usage of the modal adverbs and show that epistemic adverbs are more characteristic of the humanities and social sciences theses. We also show that the non-epistemic dispositional meaning of possibility, which is most commonly used in natural and technical sciences theses, is not used as a hedging device. In the second part of the paper we compare the usage of a selected set of modals in bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral theses in order to chart how researchers’ approach to stance-taking changes at different proficiency levels in academic writing, showing that the observed increase in hedging devices in doctoral theses seems to be less a function of an increased proficiency level in academic writing as such and more the result of conceptual differences between undergraduate and postgraduate theses, only the latter of which are original research contributions with extensive discussion of the results.

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