The AsiaBarometer: Its Aim, Its Scope, Its Strength

2004 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
TAKASHI INOGUCHI
Keyword(s):  
International Symposium ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Research Note ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The University

The Asia Barometer was launched on 6 May 2003 with an international symposium held at the University of Tokyo. It was executed in ten Asian societies in summer 2003. With the first AsiaBarometer survey data in their hands, Asian social scientists got together at the University of Tokyo in January 2004 to present and discuss their papers and discuss the second AsiaBarometer survey to be conducted in summer 2004. In March 2004 discussion papers came out from the Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo. By the end of 2004 the AsiaBarometer Sourcebook will come out also. This research note summarizes the AsiaBarometer's aims, scope and strength.

scholarly journals A Brief History of the Future of World Society

2005 ◽  
pp. 159-169
Author(s):  
Mark Herkenrath ◽  
Claudia König ◽  
Hanno Scholtz
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
International Symposium ◽  
World Society ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Degree Of Certainty ◽  
History Of ◽  
University Of Zurich ◽  
The University

Earlier versions of the articles in this issue were presented and discussed atthe international symposium on “The Future of World Society,” held in June 2004 at the University of Zurich.¹ The theme of the symposium implied two assumptions. One, there is in fact a world society, though still very much in formation. And two, as social scientists we are in a position to predict the future of that society with at least some degree of certainty. The ?rst of these assumptions will be addressed in Alberto Martinelli’s timely contribution, “From World System to World Society?” It is the second assumption which is of interest to us in this introduction. Are the social sciences really able to predict the future of world society?

Why they shared: recovering early arguments for sharing social scientific data

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-119
Author(s):  
Emily Hauptmann
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Data Sharing ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Ethical Imperative ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
The University ◽  
University Consortium

ArgumentMost social scientists today think of data sharing as an ethical imperative essential to making social science more transparent, verifiable, and replicable. But what moved the architects of some of the U.S.’s first university-based social scientific research institutions, the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research (ISR), and its spin-off, the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), to share their data? Relying primarily on archived records, unpublished personal papers, and oral histories, I show that Angus Campbell, Warren Miller, Philip Converse, and others understood sharing data not as an ethical imperative intrinsic to social science but as a useful means to the diverse ends of financial stability, scholarly and institutional autonomy, and epistemological reproduction. I conclude that data sharing must be evaluated not only on the basis of the scientific ideals its supporters affirm, but also on the professional objectives it serves.

New Mayors: France and the United States

1987 ◽  
Vol 8 (x) ◽  
pp. 263-275
Author(s):  
Richard Balme ◽  
Jeanne Becquart-Leclercq ◽  
Terry N. Clark ◽  
Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot ◽  
Jean-Yves Nevers
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Local Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Socialist Government ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
Significant Support ◽  
The Welfare State

In 1983 we organized a conference on “Questioning the Welfare State and the Rise of the City” at the University of Paris, Nanterre. About a hundred persons attended, including many French social scientists and political activists. Significant support came from the new French Socialist government. Yet with Socialism in power since 1981, it was clear that the old Socialist ideas were being questioned inside and outside the Party and government—especially in the important decentralization reforms. There was eager interest in better ways to deliver welfare state services at the local level.

scholarly journals Social Assessment and Resettlement Policies and Practice in China: Contributions by Michael M Cernea to Development in China

2021 ◽  
pp. 329-344
Author(s):  
Guoqing Shi ◽  
Fangmei Yu ◽  
Chaogang Wang
Keyword(s):  
International Symposium ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Social Assessment ◽  
Research Programs ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
Academic Conferences

AbstractWe are very pleased to contribute to this volume to express our appreciation for the collaboration with the community of social scientists, sociologists and anthropologists, working at the World Bank. Chinese social scientists joined forces with them on essential activities: development projects, research programs, academic conferences, training courses, and joint books. One of us, Guoqing Shi, has participated in the international symposium in Bieberstein, Germany, where this volume has originated.

scholarly journals Analyzing Library Survey Data Using Factor Analysis (Research Note)

1990 ◽  
Vol 51 (5) ◽  
pp. 483-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda L. Phillips ◽  
William Lyons
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Research Note

scholarly journals The Bull in the Book: A 1308 Witness to the Career of Francesco Caracciolo, Chancellor of Paris

Fragmentology ◽  
10.24446/fc88 ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 141-148
Author(s):  
William Duba
Keyword(s):  
Early Career ◽  
Research Note ◽  
University Of Paris ◽  
The University

Research note from Fragmentology 3 (2020). Bound with the 1338 Catalogue of the Library of the Collège de la Sorbonne (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, N.A.L. 99) is a 1308 papal bull used as a pastedown in a previous binding (https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-nqp8). This Bull provides a further witness to the early career of the theologian Francesco Caracciolo (d. 1316), who served as Chancellor of the University of Paris.

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.

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