Review of Quieting Reform: Social Science and Social Action in an Urban Youth Program.

1988 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 463-463
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Urban Youth ◽  
Youth Program

Social Science and Social Action

1935 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank H. Knight
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Action

Effective Grassroots Social Action in Public Education

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Charles V. Willie
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Action ◽  
School Education ◽  
Student Body ◽  
Public School Education

This article identifies public school education as a community affair which requires the talents of lawyers, social science scholars, and other kinds of people. Since public education is described as a community affair, diversity in student body and faculty is recommended as a way of gathering essential opinions on how education may benefit all individuals as well as the community. Grassroots strategies for achieving effective social action are discussed.

scholarly journals What is a social pattern? Rethinking a central social science term

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hernan Mondani ◽  
Richard Swedberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Cultural Patterns ◽  
Social Patterns ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Central Social

AbstractThe main aim of this article is to start a discussion of social pattern, a term that is commonly used in sociology but not specified or defined. The key question can be phrased as follows: Is it possible to transform the notion of social pattern from its current status in sociology as a proto-concept into a fully worked out concept? And if so, how can this be done? To provide material for the discussion we begin by introducing a few different types of patterns that are currently being used (patterns in nature, cultural patterns, statistical patterns, and computationally generated patterns). This is followed by a suggestion for what a strictly sociological concept of social pattern may look like. A useful and theoretically solid concept of social pattern can in our view be constructed by basing it on Weber’s concept of social action. This means that both the behavior of the actors and the meaning these invest their behavior with must be taken into account. The article ends with a brief discussion of how to use the concept of social patterns in an effective way and what may endanger such a use.

Urban and Community Fisheries Programs: Development, Management, and Evaluation

2008 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Urban Youth ◽  
Twin Cities ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Classroom Teachers ◽  
Aquatic Resources ◽  
Program Leaders ◽  
Youth Program ◽  
Community Fisheries

<em>Abstract.-</em>The MinnAqua Program, the angling and aquatic education program of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, was established in 1989. Its purpose was to introduce urban youth in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul to fishing. MinnAqua has since grown notably, expanding into a successful statewide program reaching over 40,000 people a year, still with a focus on angler recruitment and retention. In addition, the MinnAqua Program also recognizes that fishing provides a powerful context for environmental education, which gets kids outdoors and can serve to foster the development of systems-based awareness, environmental knowledge, skills, and attitudes, and can consequently lay a foundation for active stewardship of Minnesota’s aquatic resources. Through 2000, programming occurred in both formal (schools) and nonformal education settings; however, MinnAqua had been especially effective in reaching out to youth in nonformal settings. In 2001, the decision was made to update the Leader’s Guide to create a tool to aid in strengthening and expanding the program’s outreach in all areas, especially in the formal setting. The new <em>Fishing: Get in the Habitat! </em>MinnAqua Program Leader’s Guide was created and published in June of 2007. This innovative and comprehensive angling and aquatic education curriculum guide is being delivered throughout Minnesota to classroom teachers. To date, over 500 Minnesota educators have received this new guide. One way that educators and youth program leaders receive the guide is by attending a MinnAqua facilitated training workshop. Opportunities for making the publication available for downloading from the Internet are currently being reviewed.

Representing own and other voices in social science research articles

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Parkinson
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Prominent Feature ◽  
The Social ◽  
Complement Clauses ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Prior Investigation

That complement clauses are a prominent feature of various registers including conversation and academic prose. In academic prose, that-clauses are of interest because they frame research findings, the writer’s central message to the reader. To achieve this persuasive purpose, that-clauses are employed to draw in various voices, including those of other researchers, research participants, research findings and the writer. This study extends prior investigation of complement clauses to examine their distribution across different sections of a corpus of research articles in social science. The social action of each section is partially achieved through what the different voices in the different sections of the article talk about, and the subtle variations in the stance of the author and other voices across sections. This study finds that use of reporting verbs is nuanced according to authors’ purposes in different sections, and also according to the source of the proposition in the that-clause.

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