Exploring methodological innovation in the social sciences: the body in digital environments and the arts

This paper addresses the call for more action-based narratives of grassroot resistance to runaway climate change. At a time when deep changes in society are needed in order to respond to climate change and related sustainability issues, there are calls for greater connectivity between science and society, and for more inclusive and disruptive forms of knowledge creation and engagement. The contention of this paper is that the forces and structures that create a disconnect between science and society must be ‘transgressed’. This paper introduces a concept of Transgressive Action Research as a methodological innovation that enables the co-creation of counter hegemonic pathways towards sustainability. Through the method of the Living Spiral Framework, fieldwork reflexions from the Colombian case study of the international T-Learning project were elicited, uncovering and explicating the transgressive learning qualities needed to respond to climate change. As part of a larger action–research project, this paper combines the arts with the social sciences, demonstrating how the concept of ‘Transgressive Action Research’ can enable co-researchers to engage in disruptive and transformative processes, meeting the need for more radical approaches to addressing the urgent challenges of climate change.

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Conceptualising and researching the body in digital contexts: towards new methodological conversations across the arts and social sciences

Qualitative Research ◽

10.1177/1468794116656036 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 37-53 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Carey Jewitt ◽

Sara Price ◽

Anna Xambo Sedo

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Qualitative Research ◽

Social Science ◽

Ethnographic Study ◽

The Body ◽

Research Groups ◽

The Gaze ◽

The Arts ◽

The Social

The turn to the body in social sciences has intensified the gaze of qualitative research on bodily matters and embodied relations and made the body a significant object of reflection, bringing new focus on and debates around the direction of methodological advances. This article contributes to these debates in three ways: 1) we explore the potential synergies across the social sciences and arts to inform the conceptualization of the body in digital contexts; 2) we point to ways qualitative research can engage with ideas from the arts towards more inclusive methods; and 3) we offer three themes with which to interrogate and re-imagine the body: its fragmenting and zoning, its sensory and material qualities, and its boundaries. We draw on the findings of an ethnographic study of the research ecologies of six research groups in the arts and social sciences concerned with the body in digital contexts to discuss the synergetic potential of these themes and how they could be mobilized for qualitative research on the body in digital contexts. We conclude that engaging with the arts brings potential to reinvigorate and extend the methodological repertoire of qualitative social science in ways that are pertinent to the current re-thinking of the body, its materiality and boundaries.

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Freeing the Elephant-eating Boa: Theorizing Children in Philippine Social Science Research

Plaridel ◽

10.52518/2018.15.2-07sayuno ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 189-206

Author(s):

Cheeno Marlo del Mundo Sayuno

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Social Science ◽

Social Science Research ◽

Science Research ◽

Active Role ◽

The Philippines ◽

The Body ◽

Childhood Studies ◽

The Arts ◽

The Social

Both the child character and the child audience contribute significantly to the body of research on childhood studies. How children think, learn, and behave have been researched in many studies on psychology and education. Meanwhile, the social sciences have also become a home for childhood studies due to the richness of content for children in broadcast and print, which is the focus of this literature review. The paper explores how children are theorized in social sciences in the Philippines. Through a survey of prominent journals such as Plaridel, Humanities Diliman, Social Science Diliman, and Kritika Kultura, this paper identifies the discursive roles that children play in research concerning their communicative styles, and text and media consumption. In addition, the paper also analyzes how children are represented in literature on childhood studies. This review encourages providing a more active role for children in research and literary works about and for them published in the social sciences, the arts, and the humanities. Children can have a wide and insightful imagination the way the Little Prince has. Children are not petty participants. Children matter. Children are powerful.

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Marcel Mauss and the Turn to the Gift

10.1093/oso/9780198778585.003.0002 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Rebecca Colesworthy

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Experimental Writing ◽

Market Society ◽

The Arts ◽

The Social ◽

The Gift ◽

New Material ◽

Anglo American ◽

Leonard Woolf

Chapter 1 takes a cue from recent anthropologists who have stressed the influence of Mauss’s socialism on his sociological work. Returning to Mauss’s The Gift, the chapter argues that what links his essay to the experimental writing of his literary contemporaries is not their shared fascination with the primitive, as other critics have suggested, but rather their shared investment in reimagining social possibilities within market society. Mauss was, as his biographer notes, an “Anglophile.” Shedding light on his admiration of British socialism and especially the work of Beatrice and Sidney Webb—friends of Virginia and Leonard Woolf—as well as competing usages of the language of “gifts” in the social sciences and the arts, the chapter ultimately provides a new material and conceptual framework for understanding the intersection of largely French gift theory and Anglo-American modernist writing.

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Editorial Foreword

Idealogy Journal of Arts and Social Science ◽

10.24191/idealogy.v6i2.306. ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. viii-viii

Author(s):

Muhamad Abdul Aziz Ab Gani ◽

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Ishak Ramli ◽

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Social Science ◽

Editorial Boards ◽

The Arts ◽

The Social ◽

Research Findings ◽

Research Questions ◽

Art Design ◽

Global Initiatives

We are very pleased that IDEALOGY JOURNAL, Journal of Arts and Social Science is presenting its 6th volume and 2nd issue. We are also very excited that the journal has been attracting papers from a variety of advanced and emerging countries such as Indonesia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, etc. The variety of submissions from such countries will help the aimed global initiatives of the journal. We are also delighted that the researchers from the Arts and Social Science fields demonstrate an interest to share their research with the readers of this journal. This issue of Journal of Arts and Social Science contains five outstanding articles which shed light on contemporary research questions in arts and social science fields. All the 13 papers of this issue studies the are discussing about culture, art, design, technology, creativity and art & design innovation. There is also discussion about art, design and culture in various area. In this issue, most of the articles are discussing on the topic of arts and the social science. In social science it is very important to have a combination of different discipline to ensure the survival of knowledge. By combining knowledge from different fields, it could produce new innovation that could lead to solutions to many important problems or issues. Hence Idealogy Journal of Arts and Social Sciences is a platform for many fields of knowledge to share research findings as well as literatures. As we were aware at the first issue, a journal needs commitment, not only from editors but also from editorial boards and the contributors. Without the support of our editorial board, we would not dare to start and continue. Special thanks, also, go to the contributors of the journal for their trust, patience and timely revisions. We continue welcome article submissions in all fields of arts and social sciences.

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Predictors Employee Performance In Indonesian Manufacturing Company Using Path Anlysis

Jurnal Organisasi dan Manajemen ◽

10.33830/jom.v15i2.736.2019 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 166-180

Author(s):

Agustina Ekasari ◽

Jasanta Peranginangin

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Job Satisfaction ◽

Human Resource Management ◽

Human Resource ◽

Research Finding ◽

Employee Performance ◽

The Body ◽

Body Of Knowledge ◽

The Social ◽

Manufacturing Company

This research aims to find path analysis that influencing emloyee performance in Indonesia manufacturing company. Design of this research is quantitative methode, There is 150 questionaires spreaded to manufacturing company. This research using multivariate anlysis with Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). The result of this paper will described the important factors to build employee performance in manufacturing company. This study will strengtened the previous research about employee performance in manufacturing company. This research finding provides conceptual framework job satisfaction and employee performance. there are six hypotheses developed in this study, there are Four accepted hypotheses and two rejected hypotheses. This research will contributed to the body of knowledge, particularly in human resource management science.

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Realizing the transformative potential of conservation through the social sciences, arts and humanities

10.31230/osf.io/c536p ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Nathan Bennett ◽

Robin Roth

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Social Science Research ◽

Science Research ◽

Status Quo ◽

Conservation Practices ◽

Arts And Humanities ◽

Transformative Potential ◽

The Arts ◽

The Social ◽

Conservation Actions

Conservation actions most often occur in peopled seascapes and landscapes. As a result, conservation decisions cannot rely solely on evidence from the natural sciences, but must also be guided by the social sciences, the arts and the humanities. However, we are concerned that too much of the current attention is on research that serves an instrumental purpose, by which we mean that the social sciences are used to justify and promote status quo conservation practices. The reasons for engaging the social sciences, as well as the arts and the humanities, go well beyond making conservation more effective. In this editorial, we briefly reflect on how expanding the types of social science research and the contributions of the arts and the humanities can help to achieve the transformative potential of conservation.

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Archive Fevers

Crafting History ◽

10.7591/cornell/9781501751820.003.0002 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 24-41

Author(s):

Albena Yaneva

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Jacques Derrida ◽

Paul Ricoeur ◽

Architectural Practice ◽

The Arts ◽

The Social ◽

Paul Ricœur ◽

Empirical Turn

This chapter reviews several developments in the social sciences and the arts that date back to the 1990s and motivated this study of archives as practice. It refers to Jacques Derrida and Paul Ricoeur as key protagonists that led to the rethinking of the role of archiving as a tool of memory. It also details the emergence of the trend of “archival ethnography,” which witnessed the advent of the archival turn in anthropology. The chapter elaborates how archival scholarship took an empirical turn in the mid-1990s, coinciding with the “archive fever” in the arts and the “archival turn” in anthropology that opened venues for investigating architectural archiving. It explores the realm of architectural practice wherein the computer radically changed working dynamics and led to the practice's own archival turn in the mid-1990s.

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Sonolência diurna excessiva e os efeitos do trabalho na saúde de trabalhadores de enfermagem

Enfermería Global ◽

10.6018/eglobal.19.1.377381 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

pp. 263-301

Author(s):

Kellen Da Silva ◽

Ariane Naidon Cattani ◽

Maiara Carmosina Hirt ◽

Anahlú Peserico ◽

Rosângela Marion Da Silva ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Excessive Daytime Sleepiness ◽

Daytime Sleepiness ◽

Predictive Analytics ◽

The Body ◽

University Hospital ◽

Hospital Data ◽

Physical Damage ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

The Social

Objetivo: Analizar la somnolencia diurna excesiva y los efectos del trabajo en la salud de trabajadores de enfermería actuantes em la Unidad de Recuperación Post-Anestésica.Método: Estudio transversal, realizado con 39 trabajadores de enfermería de una Unidad de Recuperación Post-Anestésica de un Hospital Universitario. Los instrumentos de recolección de datos fueron el cuestionario de caracterización sociolaboral, la Escala de Somnolencia de Epworth y la Escala de Evaluación de los Daños Relacionados al Trabajo. Los datos fueron analizados con ayuda de Predictive Analytics Software, de la SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences), a través de pruebas estadísticas.Resultados: Indican que los daños físicos presentaron mayor promedio (2,33 ± 1,15), predominando dolores en el cuerpo, espalda y piernas, dicho una clasificación grave, lo cual potencia el sufrimiento en el trabajo. En cuanto a la presencia de somnolencia diurna excesiva, el 41% de los trabajadores la presentaron. No se identificó asociación significativa entre la somnolencia diurna excesiva y los efectos del trabajo en la salud de trabajadores de enfermería.Conclusión: Este estudio podrá auxiliar en la planificación de acciones con el objetivo de minimizar los daños relacionados al trabajo y promover la salud del trabajador. Objective: To analyze excessive daytime sleepiness and the effects of work on the health of nursing workers working in the Post-Anesthetic Recovery Unit.Method: A cross-sectional study carried out with 39 nursing workers from a Post-Anesthetic Recovery Unit of a University Hospital. Data collection instruments were the socio-labor characterization questionnaire, the Epworth Sleepiness Scale and the Work-Related Damage Assessment Scale. The data were analyzed with the aid of Predictive Analytics Software, SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences), through statistical tests.Results: Indicate that physical damage presented a higher mean (2.33 ± 1.15), and pain in the body, back and legs predominated, a severe classification, which potentiates suffering at work. As to the presence of excessive daytime sleepiness, 41% of the workers presented. No significant association was identified between excessive daytime sleepiness and the effects of work on the health of nursing workers.Conclusion: This study may help in the planning of actions with the intention of minimizing the damages related to work and promoting the health of the worker. Objetivo: Analisar a sonolência diurna excessiva e os efeitos do trabalho na saúde de trabalhadores de enfermagem atuantes na Unidade de Recuperação Pós-Anestésica.Método: Estudo transversal, realizado com 39 trabalhadores de enfermagem de uma Unidade de Recuperação Pós-Anestésica de um Hospital Universitário. Os instrumentos de coleta de dados foram o questionário de caracterização sociolaboral, a Escala de Sonolência de Epworth e a Escala de Avaliação dos Danos Relacionados ao Trabalho. Os dados foram analisados com auxílio do Predictive Analytics Software, da SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences), por meio de testes estatísticos.Resultados: Indicam que os danos físicos apresentaram maior média (2,33±1,15), sendo que dores no corpo, costas e pernas predominaram, dito uma classificação grave, o qual potencializa o sofrimento no trabalho. Quanto à presença de sonolência diurna excessiva, 41% dos trabalhadores apresentaram. Não foi identificada associação significativa entre a sonolência diurna excessiva e os efeitos do trabalho na saúde de trabalhadores de enfermagem.Conclusão: Este estudo poderá auxiliar no planejamento de ações com o intuito de minimizar os danos relacionados ao trabalho e promover a saúde do trabalhador.

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Comparing electronic vs print book preferences between students in the social sciences, the arts and STEM

Library Hi Tech News ◽

10.1108/lhtn-10-2014-0088 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 32 (4) ◽

pp. 1-4 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Lee A. Cummings ◽

Anne Larrivee ◽

Leslie Vega

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Design Methodology ◽

Student Group ◽

Content Type ◽

The Arts ◽

The Social ◽

Print Book

Purpose – The purpose of this study was to determine if there were any distinct differences in e-book usage habits among students in the social sciences, technical fields and the arts. Design/methodology/approach – To complete this study, students from three different disciplinary areas were surveyed. The same nine questions were posed to each student group, with slight modifications to some questions based on the discipline. Findings – The results of this study show that students in each discipline have a preference for convenience and accessibility, whether material is print or electronic. Some more unique characteristics between disciplines include the percentage of students using books and frequency of e-book usage. Originality/value – This study is unique in that it compares the preferences and habits of three specific groups of students from unrelated disciplines. It will be useful for librarians who manage collections for various disciplines and want a better understanding of what should be considered when choosing a format for materials.

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