Challenges for the social sciences of sport: revisiting ‘the two cultures’

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Alan Bairner
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Two Cultures

Challenges for Science

2021 ◽  
pp. 170-195
Author(s):  
Harvey Whitehouse
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Transdisciplinary Research ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Transdisciplinary Collaboration

The book ends by calling for a new kind of science of the social, one that recognizes the immense challenges posed by the sheer complexity of sociocultural phenomena and the fact that our evolved psychology is not well designed to grasp, let alone address, those challenges. Nevetheless, we live in a time when the potential rewards of transdisciplinary collaboration are richer than they have ever been before. This chapter describes some of the main hurdles to achieving that potential and discusses how these might be overcome. The very enterprise of social science is inherently unnatural, given our uniquely human evolved psychology, and this may explain why the study of the social has proven harder to get off the ground, in comparison with many other life sciences. The resulting lack of consensus on basic matters of epistemology and method has contributed to the creation of theoretical and methodological divisions in the social sciences in the alternate guises of the ‘two cultures problem’ and the ‘silo effect’. The solutions proposed here advocate new forms of problem-centred transdisciplinary research based on the kinds of cross-cultural collaborative programmes described in detail throughout the book.

The Text is a Text is a Text

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marija Dalbello
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
History Of The Book ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Digital Text ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
History Of

The paper proposed here examines what history of the book can bring to the study of digital literacy. Current scholarly literature on digital text and literacy is multidisciplinary, dispersed in the social sciences and the humanities between the two cultures of research which are difficult to reconcile. A sizable literature in the area of literary studies and rhetoric from the early 1900s added. . .

scholarly journals Positivist Misconceptions of Science and the Search for Viable Solutions

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 108
Author(s):  
Chompalov Ivan ◽  
Lubomir Popov
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
State Funding ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Social Studies Of Science ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
Science Wars ◽  
Feasible Path

Prevailing current definitions of science are largely based on a traditional, positivist paradigm that favors the natural sciences and either denies or downplays the scientific status of the social sciences and the humanities. The disciplinary organization and institutionalization of research and systematic inquiry is still the norm. This article argues that the rigid organization of science and indeed the dominant view that there are hard sciences and soft sciences with the latter occupying an inferior position with regard to their knowledge claims and utility is pretty outmoded and does not fit well the current challenges and global needs. This is not just an academic issue but has clear practical implications in terms of funding and staffing, as well as the distribution of other valuable resources, especially in view of the dwindling federal and state funding for both the natural sciences and the humanities and social sciences. We develop our argument using as a methodological platform the ideas of ‘The Two Cultures,’ the ‘Science Wars,’ the new constructivist turn in social studies of science, and science as a social institution. We argue that current definitions of science need to be modified to include the humanities and to emancipate the social sciences and the ‘soft’ paradigms associated with them. This can form the basis of an earnest effort for better integration of different kinds of disciplines and for achieving much needed synergisms to tackle complex problems that tend to be multifaceted and whose solutions do not easily conform to single disciplinary paradigms. The contention here is that such a bridge between the two cultures can use as a model the social sciences, since they successfully combine methods from the natural sciences with approaches and theories common in the humanities. In our opinion, this is a feasible path to both greater interdisciplinarity and more vigorous collaboration between the different branches of science that can benefit both working scientists and society at large when dealing with pressing issues like environmental problems, the depletion of natural resources, pandemics, and natural disasters.

scholarly journals Social Robots: A Bridge Between the Two Cultures

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Riccardo Campa
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Social Robots ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
The One

This paper aims to show the possible and actual synergies between social robotics and sociology. The author argues that social robots are one of the best fields of inquiry to provide a bridge between the two cultures — the one represented by the social sciences and the humanities on the one hand, and the one represented by the natural sciences and engineering on the other. To achieve this result, quantitative and qualitative analyses are implemented. By using scientometric tools like Ngram Viewer, search engines such as Google Scholar, and hand calculations, the author detects the emergence of the term-and-concept ‘social robots’ in its current use, the absolute and relative frequencies of this term in the scientific literature in the period 1800–2008, the frequency distribution of publications including this term in the period 2000–2019, and the magnitude of publications in which the term ‘social robots’ is associated to the term ‘sociology’ or ’social work’. Finally, employing qualitative analysis and focusing on exemplary cases, this paper shows different ways of implementing researches that relate sociology to robotics, from a theoretical or instrumental point of view. It is argued that sociologists and engineers could work in a team to observe, analyze, and describe the interaction between humans and social robots, by using research techniques and theoretical frames provided by sociology. In turn, this knowledge can be used to build more effective and humanlike social robots. Keywords: social robots, sociology, social work, meta-analysis, scientometrics

In the Literature Lab

2018 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Kevin Pask
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Models ◽  
Literary Scholarship ◽  
Humanities Computing ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Literary Research ◽  
Critical Scholarship ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
Social Anthropologist

Abstract The most striking development in literary scholarship since the millennium is the increasing exploration of scientific models for literary research. This reflects an anxiety about the authority of humanistic research that has historical roots, some of them well described in the work of the social anthropologist Ernest Gellner. The “two cultures” debate of the early 1960s, centrally animated by C. P. Snow and F. R. Leavis, made the anxiety of the literary professoriat a matter of public debate that still inflects literary scholarship and theory. The rhetorical amplification of scientism, privileging scientific methodologies or partnership with scientific methodologies, in recent literary-critical scholarship is one result. The older formation of “humanities computing,” for example, has reemerged as the digital humanities, with claims to the status of interpretive methodology, particularly in the work of Franco Moretti. Such claims, however, are sometimes the repackaging of older methodologies.

The Third Culture

2005 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-160
Author(s):  
Oskar Gruenwald ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Conceptual Understanding ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Third Culture ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
Unity In Diversity

This essay explores a new conceptual paradigm for bridging the gulf separating what C. P. Snow called The Two Cultures--science and the humanities. Central to this rainbow paradigm is a more unified, holistic, and integral understanding of human life in society. A fruitful science-theology dialogue presupposes a much broader context of a revitalized Third Culture which weaves together insights from all the arts and sciences, social sciences and humanities. The essay thus invokes the incarnational dimension of man as God's creation and truth as the Logos or ultimate Reality. The conclusion follows that a new lingua franca--a more felicitous conceptual understanding focusing on man as the missing link-requires integrative insights across all disciplines. Such an integral vision of what it means to be fully human reflects a sapiential, existential, and eschatological challenge of unity in diversity, that is, a truly human culture or a culture of cultures.

Overview and Approaches

2021 ◽  
pp. 2-13
Author(s):  
Thomas F. Scanlon
Keyword(s):  
Social Contexts ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Boundaries ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Cultural Tensions ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Shed Light

The aims, scope, structure and cultural background of the present volume are outlined here. It aims to present progressive current thought in the field and indicate directions for future work. It also juxtaposes Greek and Roman games and spectacle, to shed light on similarities and differences in the two cultures, and also to suggest parallels in other cultures, including our own. It aims to facilitate research and provoke thinking in particular aspects of Greek sport and Roman spectacle. The focus of the collection is to an extent in the social contexts of games, namely the evolution of sport and spectacle diachronically and geographically across cultural and political boundaries, and how games are adapted to multiple contexts and multiple purposes, reinforcing, for example, social hierarchies, performing shared values, and playing out deep cultural tensions. This chapter also interrogates the terms for sport today and in antiquity, and presents the high value placed on sport by ‘following the money’ in both eras.

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