Discussion of Erik Martinez Kuhonta, Dan Slater, and Tuong Vu's Southeast Asia in Political Science: Theory, Region, and Qualitative Analysis

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-208
Author(s):  
Thomas B. Pepinsky ◽  
Barbara Geddes ◽  
Duncan McCargo ◽  
Richard Robison ◽  
Erik Martinez Kuhonta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
Sensitive Area ◽  
Theoretical Orientations ◽  
Social Science Knowledge ◽  
Science Theory

Comparative politics has witnessed periodic debates between proponents of contextually sensitive area studies research and others who view such work as unscientific, noncumulative, or of limited relevance for advancing broader social science knowledge. In Southeast Asia in Political Science: Theory, Region, and Qualitative Analysis, edited by Erik Martinez Kuhonta, Dan Slater, and Tuong Vu, a group of bright, young Southeast Asianists argue that contextually sensitive research in Southeast Asia using qualitative research methods has made fundamental and lasting contributions to comparative politics. They challenge other Southeast Asianists to assert proudly the contributions that their work has made and urge the rest of the comparative politics discipline to take these contributions seriously. This symposium includes four short critical reviews of Southeast Asia in Political Science by political scientists representing diverse scholarly traditions. The reviews address both the methodological and the theoretical orientations of the book and are followed by a response from the editors.

Institutional Logics and the Limits of Social Science Knowledge

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-213
Author(s):  
Jessica Blatt
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Institutional Logics ◽  
Science History ◽  
Social Science Knowledge ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Social Science History ◽  
Disciplinary History ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender

As someone whose training is in political science and who writes about the history of my own discipline, I admit to some hesitation in recommending future avenues of research for historians of education. For that reason, the following thoughts are directed toward disciplinary history broadly and social science history specifically. Moreover, the three articles that contributors to this forum were asked to use as inspiration suggest that any future I would recommend has been under way in one form or another for a while. For those reasons, I want to reframe my contribution as a reflection on a particular mode of analysis all three authors employed and how it may be particularly useful for exploring the questions of power, exclusion, and race- and gender-making in the academy that are present in all three articles and that explicitly animate two of them.

scholarly journals MAPPING POLITICAL THEORY USING BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 163
Author(s):  
Muhammad Syaifuddin ◽  
Suswanta Suswanta ◽  
Misran Misran ◽  
Syamsul Bahri Abd. Rasyid
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Subsequent Research ◽  
Science Theory ◽  
Science And Politics ◽  
Scopus Database

Politics is a discipline of science that is part of social science. What distinguishes political science from other social sciences is the object studied. The development of research on the theory of political science and politics becomes a question in this paper. Topic mapping and topic classification based on keywords, countries, and themes discussed were the main focus of this research, including visual density based on keywords, showing the level of saturation political science theory. In this study, the data used were data that had been downloaded from the Scopus database with several limitations to limit and be more specific to the results of the discussion. After the documents to be reviewed and analyzed are bibliographical using the VOSViewer and NVivo 12 Plus software, the data is exported .CSV and .RIS formats. This study aims to provide insights into subsequent research on the theory of political science

Suited up and Stripped Down: Perspectives for Sociocultural Sport Studies

1989 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 335-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet C. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Theoretical Orientations ◽  
Sport Sociology ◽  
Social Science Theory ◽  
Science Theory ◽  
Broad Array ◽  
Will Force ◽  
Cultural Performances ◽  
The One

It is clear that sports are cultural performances, and as such they should be studied simultaneously at two levels. On the one hand we must examine the dramatic, expressive meanings that sports have for people who encounter them—the suited up level. At the same time, we need analyses that go below this to examine social structures within and beyond sports—the stripped down level. Our energies should be directed toward work that interrelates the two. Scholarship of this nature will force us to be more eclectic in our theoretical orientations, drawing on a broad array of social science and humanities frameworks. The broader and deeper our understanding of these frameworks, the more sophisticated and insightM will be our work, making it more likely to contribute in important ways to mainline social science theory. The term “sport sociology” seems too narrow in light of the need for simultaneous suited up and stripped down analyses of sports that embrace numerous disciplinary perspectives. A more apt term for this enterprise, combining reference to culture and to social structure in one stroke, is “sociocultural sport studies.”

Aligning Epistemology and Writing: A Literary Analysis of Qualitative Research

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 226-245
Author(s):  
Anne-Laure Mahé
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Reflexive Analysis

AbstractThis article examines writing as the last link in the epistemology-theory-methodology alignment. Although political scientists dedicate a great deal of their time to writing, conversations on this topic remain scarce within international relations and political science overall. Notably absent are analyses of the actual writing choices scholars make and what these mean for the knowledge they produce. This article uses the tools of literary analysis to take a closer look at the mechanics of three published academic articles in the fields of international relations and comparative politics. It focuses on how qualitative interviews are written, demonstrates how authors can conceal or reveal the dialogical dimension, and examines how they deal with the conundrum of the representation of research participants. This kind of reflexive analysis reveals the epistemological foundations of a given research article and can be used to identify instances of misrepresentation and misalignment. As such, it is an important tool for the improvement of academic writing.

scholarly journals What's [Yet] to be Seen? Re-Using Qualitative Data

2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth B. Silva
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Academic Careers ◽  
Social Science Knowledge ◽  
Academic Context ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
Professional Careers ◽  
Research Material

This paper considers current debates about re-using qualitative research data by reflecting on its implications for the nature of social science knowledge created in this process and the ways in which the disclosure of researchers’ practices are linked with the making of professional academic careers. It examines a research project using two different approaches – a ‘virtual’ and a ‘classic’ ethnography – to argue that issues concerned with re-use of data depend on the methods employed and the overall processes of investigation. The paper argues for an appreciation of the contexts involved in the generation of research material which takes into account both the development of the study and related fieldwork processes as well as the academic context in which knowledge is produced, particularly those involved in the construction of academic selves and professional careers, which are part of a wider situation bearing upon scientific enquiry.

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