The Political Economy of Nature: Environmental Debates and the Social Sciences

2002 ◽  
Vol 44 (9) ◽  
pp. 43-43
Author(s):  
Sylvia Karlsson
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economy Of Nature

The digital potlatch: The uses of uselessness in the digital economy

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (9) ◽  
pp. 1947-1966
Author(s):  
Michael Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Social ◽  
Communicative Capitalism

Drawing on the century-long preoccupation with premodern or “primitive” economic forms that has shaped the social sciences, this essay argues that the political economy of social networking platforms is structured like a potlatch. Understanding this structure and its dynamics is indispensable for grasping the social, economic and cultural preconditions and implications of communicative capitalism.

Sociology’s encounter with the decolonial: The problematique of indigenous vs that of coloniality, extraversion and colonial modernity

2020 ◽  
pp. 001139212093114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sujata Patel
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
The Political ◽  
Colonial Modernity ◽  
Politics Of Difference ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
Everyday Knowledge

How did the process of decolonization reframe the social sciences? This article maps the interventions made by theorists of and from the ex-colonial countries in reconceptualizing sociology both as practice and as an episteme. It argues that there are geographically varied and intellectually diverse decolonial approaches being formulated using sociological theory to critique the universals propounded by the traditions of western sociology/social sciences; that these diverse knowledges are connected through colonial and global circuits and that these create knowledge geographies; that collectively these diverse intellectual positions argue that sociology/social sciences are constituted in and within the politics of ‘difference’ organized within colonial, nationalist and global geopolitics; that this ‘difference’ is being reproduced in everyday knowledge practices and is being structured through the political economy of knowledge; and that the destabilization of this power structure and democratization of this knowledge is possible only when there is a fulsome interrogation of this political economy, and its everyday practices of knowledge production within universities and research institutes. It argues that this critique needs to be buffered by the constitution of alternate networks of circulation of this knowledge.

The Internal and External Face of New Labour's Political Economy

2001 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Coates ◽  
Colin Hay
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
The Social ◽  
External Face ◽  
Intellectual Disciplines

To Grasp Fully The Nature And Significance Of The Economic policies at the heart of dominant political projects, those policies have to be studied in the round. They have to be grasped as complex totalities which touch all aspects of the political agenda; and they have to be seen as constructed and contested wholes, whose contradictions, internal inconsistencies and conceptual limits are as vital to their trajectory as are their axioms, theories and content. Academically and professionally, the study of policy in this rounded way is often a more difficult task to complete than might be expected, in part because of the powerful divisions within and between the intellectual disciplines which comprise the social sciences.

J-B. Say and the Political Economy of his Time: A Quantitative Approach

1999 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe Steiner
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
Quantitative Approach ◽  
History Of Economic Thought ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

Some years ago, George J. Stigler reminded the community of historians of economic thought that a great thinker of the last century, Adolphe Quetelet, had made a real methodological breakthrough in the social sciences by opening the door to quantification. Stigler himself tried to implement this method in the history of economic thought.

scholarly journals Революции и их последствия: структуры для анализа

2019 ◽  
pp. 38-59
Author(s):  
K. Mark
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Political Development ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Unexpected Events ◽  
The Social ◽  
Further Development ◽  
The Revolution

Эта статья написана c привлечением значительного числа актуальных публикаций по социальным наукам (особенно по таким темам, как революции, состязательная политика, политическое развитие, демократизация, авторитаризм и политическая экономия), целью статьи является разработка основы для изучения и понимания политических, социальных и культурных изменений в государстве (Государство A), которое только что пережило революцию. В первую очередь в статье дается характеристика понятия революция . Также в статье исследовано дальнейшее развитие событий в государстве А после того, как в нем произошла революция. Случайные и неожиданные события могут в значительной степени повлиять на развитие ситуации, но есть много контекстуальных факторов, опираясь на которое возможно спрогнозировать развитие ситуации. Кроме того, оценивается как указанные факторы могут повлиять на политическую, социальную иzэкономическую ситуацию в государстве А после революции.This article is written with the involvement of a significant number of relevant publications in the social Sciences (especially on topics such as revolution, adversarial politics, political development, democratization, authoritarianism and political economy), the aim of the article is to develop a framework for study and understanding political, social and cultural change in a state (State A) that has just experienced a revolution. First of all, the article describes the concept of revolution. The article also examines the further development of events in the state A after the revolution occurred in it. Random and unexpected events can greatly affect the development of the situation, but there are many contextual factors, based on which it is possible to predict the development of the situation. In addition, it is estimated how these factors can affect the political, social and economic situation in the state After the revolution.

“We Speak the Truth!”

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-80
Author(s):  
Sari Hanafi
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Science ◽  
The Political ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
The Social ◽  
Academic Qualifications

This study investigates the preachers and their Friday sermons in Lebanon, raising the following questions: What are the profiles of preachers in Lebanon and their academic qualifications? What are the topics evoked in their sermons? In instances where they diagnosis and analyze the political and the social, what kind of arguments are used to persuade their audiences? What kind of contact do they have with the social sciences? It draws on forty-two semi-structured interviews with preachers and content analysis of 210 preachers’ Friday sermons, all conducted between 2012 and 2015 among Sunni and Shia mosques. Drawing from Max Weber’s typology, the analysis of Friday sermons shows that most of the preachers represent both the saint and the traditional, but rarely the scholar. While they are dealing extensively with political and social phenomena, rarely do they have knowledge of social science

The Politics of Global Health Inequalities

2019 ◽  
pp. 58-84
Author(s):  
Yusra Ribhi Shawar ◽  
Jennifer Prah Ruger
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Health Inequalities ◽  
Health Inequality ◽  
The Political ◽  
State Of Health ◽  
Political Determinants ◽  
The Social

Careful investigations of the political determinants of health that include the role of power in health inequalities—systematic differences in health achievements among different population groups—are increasing but remain inadequate. Historically, much of the research examining health inequalities has been influenced by biomedical perspectives and focused, as such, on ‘downstream’ factors. More recently, there has been greater recognition of more ‘distal’ and ‘upstream’ drivers of health inequalities, including the impacts of power as expressed by actors, as well as embedded in societal structures, institutions, and processes. The goal of this chapter is to examine how power has been conceptualised and analysed to date in relation to health inequalities. After reviewing the state of health inequality scholarship and the emerging interest in studying power in global health, the chapter presents varied conceptualisations of power and how they are used in the literature to understand health inequalities. The chapter highlights the particular disciplinary influences in studying power across the social sciences, including anthropology, political science, and sociology, as well as cross-cutting perspectives such as critical theory and health capability. It concludes by highlighting strengths and limitations of the existing research in this area and discussing power conceptualisations and frameworks that so far have been underused in health inequalities research. This includes potential areas for future inquiry and approaches that may expand the study of as well as action on addressing health inequality.

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