scholarly journals Learning from the past and present: social science implications for COVID-19 immunity-based documentation

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Dada ◽  
Heather Battles ◽  
Caitlin Pilbeam ◽  
Bhagteshwar Singh ◽  
Tom Solomon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Disease Outbreaks ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Additional Insight ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
The Past ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
To Come ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractIn responding to the widespread impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries have proposed and implemented documentation policies that confer varying levels of freedoms or restrictions (e.g., ability to travel) based on individuals’ infection status or potential immunity. Most discussions around immunity- or infection-based documentation policies have focused on scientific plausibility, economic benefit, and challenges relating to ethics and equity. As COVID-19 vaccines are rolled out, attention has turned to confirmation of immunity and how documentation such as vaccine certificates or immunity passports can be implemented. However, the contextual inequities and local variabilities interacting with COVID-19 related documentation policies hinder a one-size-fits-all approach. In this Comment, we argue that social science perspectives can and should provide additional insight into these issues, through a diverse range of current and historical examples. This would enable policymakers and researchers to better understand and mitigate current and longer-term differential impacts of COVID-19 immunity-based documentation policies in different contexts. Furthermore, social science research methods can uniquely provide feedback to inform adjustments to policy implementation in real-time and help to document how these policy measures are felt differently across communities, populations, and countries, potentially for years to come. This Comment, updated as of 15 August 2021, combines precedents established in historical disease outbreaks and current experiences with COVID-19 immunity-based documentation policies to highlight valuable lessons and an acute need for further social science research which should inform effective and context-appropriate future public health policy and action.

Research Facilities in Tunisia—Part II

1984 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-34
Author(s):  
Julia Clancy-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Research Facilities

This article is intended to update an earlier one by Michelle Raccagni and John Simmons that appeared in the MESA Bulletin of February 1972 (vol. 6, pp. 30–36). Much of the information contained in it is still valid today, but as might be expected, the continuing emphasis in Tunisia on social science research has resulted in the creation of several new centers and institutes during the past few years.

The Invention of the Favela

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Licia do Prado Valladares
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
First Century ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Past ◽  
Anthropological Study ◽  
First Time ◽  
Research And Policy

For the first time available in English, Licia do Prado Valladares’s classic anthropological study of Brazil’s vast, densely populated urban living environments reveals how the idea of the favela became an internationally established—and even attractive and exotic—representation of poverty. The study traces how the term “favela” emerged as an analytic category beginning in the mid-1960s, showing how it became the object of immense popular debate and sustained social science research. But the concept of the favela so favored by social scientists is not, Valladares argues, a straightforward reflection of its social reality, and it often obscures more than it reveals. The established representation of favelas undercuts more complex, accurate, and historicized explanations of Brazilian development. It marks and perpetuates favelas as zones of exception rather than as integral to Brazil’s modernization over the past century. And it has had important repercussions for the direction of research and policy affecting the lives of millions of Brazilians. Valladares’s foundational book will be welcomed by all who seek to understand Brazil’s evolution into the twenty-first century.

scholarly journals Conference Report: “Thirty Years of German-Beninese Cooperation in Social Science Research on Benin: Topics, Conclusions, Future Prospects” –Thurnau/Bayreuth, 8–10 March 2012

2012 ◽  
Vol 47 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 187-193
Author(s):  
Jeannett Martin ◽  
Laetitia Wayaffe
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
African Country ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Conference Report ◽  
Science Research ◽  
West African ◽  
African Studies ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
West African Country ◽  
The Past

This report summarizes the contributions and debates from a conference on German–Beninese cooperation in social science research (8–10 March 2012, University of Bayreuth). In drawing on the experiences from more than three decades of social science research on this West African country, it refers to examples from the past and present of African Studies in Germany, as well as describing the potential for German–African cooperation in this field in the future. Aside from this, it raises the question of whether and how social science cooperation is possible given the economic and power disparities. It is argued that cooperation “on equal terms” will not be easy to achieve but must be consistently striven for – personally as well as politically.

scholarly journals A decade of antimicrobial resistance research in social science fields: a scientometric review

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiahui Lu ◽  
Anita Sheldenkar ◽  
May Oo Lwin
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Antimicrobial Resistance ◽  
Social Science ◽  
One Health ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Science Field ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social

Abstract Background Though social sciences are expectedly instrumental in combating antimicrobial resistance (AMR), their research on AMR has been historically lacking. Objectives This study aims to understand the current academic literature on AMR within the social science field by investigating international contributions, emerging topics, influential articles, and prominent outlets, to identify research gaps and future directions. Methods Bibliometric data of 787 peer-reviewed journal articles published in the period of 2010 to 2019 were extracted from the Social Science Citation Index in the Web of Science database. Bibliographic networks of the extracted articles were examined. Results Social science research on AMR has grown rapidly in the past 5 years. While western developed countries contributed the most to the field in the past decade, research within developing regions such as Asia and Africa have increased in the last 2 years. Social sciences have been contributing to AMR research in several different domains from surveillance and risk assessment of AMR, to promotions of appropriate use of antimicrobials in primary care and clinical settings. Though the idea of one health has been incorporated into research on AMR within the medical and microbial science fields, it has not been well recognized by social sciences. Conclusion Social science research on AMR is a new, while rapidly developing, research area that requires continued and intense global efforts from an interdisciplinary and one health approach. Research on social issues surrounding AMR transmissions between human, animal, and environments should be emphasized in the future.

Proclaiming the New: An Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 107780042093912
Author(s):  
Aaron M. Kuntz ◽  
Elizabeth Adams St.Pierre
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
To Come

This introduction to a special issue of Qualitative Inquiry on “new approaches to inquiry” questions the need for preexisting social science research methodologies for inquiry that aspires to produce the “new,” that which is unrecognizable and incomprehensible in the Cartesian onto-epistemological arrangement that enables those methodologies. Quite a few contemporary scholars encouraged by the lure of the new have found “old” philosophies promising in dislodging that dogmatic image of thought and its concepts that weigh us down. Whatever the “new” is, it will be different every time, so the articles in the special issue cannot be models of new approaches to inquiry that can be copied and repeated but, instead, are bursts of intensities that have not yet been rendered ordinary. New inquiry, then, is always not-yet, to-come, a force of pure difference pushing through what has been normalized and stratified as it comes into existence.

scholarly journals Shifting Ideologics of Research Funding: The CPC's National Planning Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences

2014 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heike Holbig
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Research Funding ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Academic Collaboration ◽  
Official Discourse ◽  
The Past ◽  
National Planning ◽  
Planning Office

For more than two decades, the National Planning Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences (NPOPSS) has been managing official funding of social science research in China under the orbit of the Communist Party of China's (CPC) propaganda system. By focusing on “Major Projects”, the most prestigious and well-funded program initiated by the NPOPSS in 2004, this contribution outlines the political and institutional ramifications of this line of official funding and attempts to identify larger shifts during the past decade in the “ideologics” of official social science research funding – the changing ideological circumscriptions of research agendas in the more narrow sense of echoing party theory and rhetoric and – in the broader sense – of adapting to an increasingly dominant official discourse of cultural and national self-assertion. To conclude, this article offers reflections on the potential repercussions of these shifts for international academic collaboration.

Children in the Vanguard of the U.S. Welfare State: A Review of Janet Currie's The Invisible Safety Net and Jane Waldfogel's What Children Need

2007 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 1011-1023 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene Smolensky
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Life Chances ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The U.S

Policy driven social science research intended to influence the future of the U.S. welfare state has, during the past decade, emphasized improving the life-chances of children, particularly children disadvantaged at birth by the socioeconomic status of their parents. This essay samples that literature, discussing in detail the contents and implications of two recent largely synthetic volumes from this genre.

scholarly journals Toward internationalization: A bibliometric analysis of the social sciences in Mainland China from 1979 to 2018

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-33
Author(s):  
Lin Zhang ◽  
Yuanyuan Shang ◽  
Ying Huang ◽  
Gunnar Sivertsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Steady Increase ◽  
Noticeable Increase ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Chinese Scholars

The past 40 years have witnessed profound changes in the international competitiveness of Mainland China’s scientific research. Based on publication data from Chinese researchers in the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) from the Web of Science (WoS), this study aims to provide a bird’s-eye view of how social science research in Mainland China has internationalized over the past four decades. The findings show that the number of social science articles published by Chinese authors in international journals has experienced a noticeable increase, and the collaboration networks of researchers from Mainland China have broadened, with the number of articles with a Chinese first author showing a strong upward trend. In addition, findings show that Chinese scholars are published in a wider range of journals, and there has been a steady increase in their appearance in higher impact journals (influenced in part by certain journals). Finally, different social science disciplines show various degrees of internationalization . This study provides a broad view from which to examine the internationalization process in Mainland China’s social science landscape in the last four decades, while also noting some of the possible explanations for these changes, thereby deepening our understanding of social science research stemming from the region.

scholarly journals On the roots of, and solutions to, the persistent battle between “chemonoia” and rationalist denialism of the subjective nature of human cognition

2015 ◽  
Vol 34 (12) ◽  
pp. 1272-1278 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Ropeik
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Cultural Conflict ◽  
The Past ◽  
Body Of Knowledge

Despite remarkable advances over the past 35 years in the field of toxicology generally, and the development of a vast body of knowledge detailing the nature and degree of many human and environmental toxicological risks, the excessive fear of anything connected with chemicals that some refer to as “chemonoia” persists. So too, unfortunately, does the rationalist belief that once the facts are all in, everyone will agree on what those facts say. This article examines the roots of what is essentially a cultural conflict, explains what various bodies of social science research reveal about the psychological roots of that conflict, and offers suggestions on how to move forward.

Dilemmas of a Vitalizing Vaccine Market: Lessons from the MMR Vaccine/Autism Debate

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fredrik Bragesjö ◽  
Margareta Hallberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Mmr Vaccine ◽  
Rubella Vaccine ◽  
Profit Margins ◽  
The Public ◽  
Financial Conditions ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

ArgumentA number of issues related to vaccines and vaccinations in society are discussed in this paper. Our purpose is to merge an analysis of some recent changes in the vaccine market with social science research on the relationship between citizens and authorities. The article has two empirical parts. The first shows how the vaccine market, which for many years has had immense financial problems, nowadays seems to becoming economically vitalized, mostly due to the production of new and profitable vaccines. However prosperous the future may appear, certain reactions from the public regarding vaccination initiatives offer insight into inherent problems of vaccine policies in many Western countries. In the second part of the article, these problems are exemplified with the recent controversy over the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine. We conclude that in spite of the improving profit-margins, the vaccine market remains vulnerable and insecure. Vaccines are permeated bysociety, even more so than pharmaceutics that are used to cure or alleviate illnesses. Radical changes in financial conditions with promises of a more profitable market will not, we argue, solve other even more fundamental problems.

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