Scheduled science: TV coverage of science, technology, medicine and social science and programming policies in Britain and Germany

1996 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 361-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Winfried Göpfert
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Competitive Market ◽  
Commercial Sector ◽  
The Public ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Different Content

I present an analysis of the content, audience share and scheduling of TV coverage of science, technology, medicine and social science in Britain and Germany. The sample consists of all science-related programmes broadcast from October to December 1992 during broadly defined peak hours. Four British TV channels were compared with 16 German channels. Nine different content categories were defined, which exhibited some interesting differences. There were some differences in the programme makers' approach to different subjects such as medicine, environment and social sciences; and there were many differences in scheduling practices. The more competitive market in Germany leads to an even sharper separation between the public and the commercial sector, but a second distinction seems to be more important: the public sector, at least, tends to separate a more popular from a more specialist strand. Strategies for science broadcasting are discussed with comments from prominent science producers and editors in both Britain and Germany.

scholarly journals Perfil dos artigos sobre controle interno no setor público em periódicos nacionais e internacionais

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 1135-1163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilse Maria Beuren ◽  
Vinícius Costa da Silva Zonatto
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Internal Control ◽  
The Public

Este estudo objetiva identificar o perfil de artigos sobre controle interno no setor público, publicados em periódicos nacionais e internacionais indexados na base de dados Scopus. Nos artigos publicados em periódicos nacionais e internacionais indexados na base de dados Scopus, disponíveis no Portal Capes-BR, na área de Social Sciences & Humanities, realizaram-se buscas pelo termo internal control in the public sector. Identificou-se um total de 133 artigos publicados entre os anos de 1983 a 2011 e observou-se que está havendo um aumento na produção científica sobre a temática analisada. Em contrapartida, não há uma literatura específica predominante utilizada nesta área. Os temas mais explorados são: a) auditoria, controle interno, gestão de riscos e governança; b) finanças públicas; c) políticas públicas; e d) desenvolvimento econômico.

scholarly journals Engaged Citizen Social Science or the public participation in social science research

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (06) ◽  
pp. A06
Author(s):  
Rita Campos ◽  
José Monteiro ◽  
Cláudia Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Limited Participation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Research Institution ◽  
Future Project

Acknowledging the consolidation of citizen science, this paper aims to foster a collective debate on two visible gaps of the field. First, how to overcome the limited participation of social sciences and humanities in the broader field of citizen science, still dominated by natural sciences. Second, how to develop a citizen social science that allows for an active participation of citizens and for a critical engagement with contemporary societies. The authors coordinate a state-sponsored program of scientific dissemination within a Portuguese research institution and this paper intends to lay the groundwork for a future project of Citizen Social Science based on a new concept of “engaged citizen social science”.

Exploring Digitally Enabled Service Transformation in the Public Sector

2020 ◽  
pp. 911-926
Author(s):  
Amizan Omar ◽  
Ramzi El-Haddadeh ◽  
Vishanth Weerakkody
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Structuration Theory ◽  
The Public ◽  
Level Of Analysis

Digitally Enabled Service Transformation (DEST) in the Public Sector (PS) offers a unique opportunity for public administration (PA) and information systems (IS) disciplines to interlace. Albeit complicating the deployment of a coherent analytical lens in its study, such uniqueness has formed a basis to enable a deviance in the theoretical selection. Interestingly, there has been a gradual move from the adoption of native PA/IS theories towards imported social sciences theories including Institutional and Structuration. Institutional Theory provides a way of viewing and explaining why and how institutions emerge in a certain way within a given context. The theory however is being criticized for its structural biasness, as it avoids explanations situated at individual or same level of analysis. Such gap is filled with the adoption of Structuration Theory, which also focuses on how structures - as micro-institutional foundation, arise, or are maintained through co-evolution of actions and institutions. The fusion of concepts from both theories would potentially maximise the debates on DEST in PS across diverse perspectives, and continue to keep the ‘research talking' by revealing novel insights.

Debating Digitally-Enabled Service Transformation in Public Sector

2019 ◽  
pp. 123-144
Author(s):  
Amizan Omar ◽  
Craig Johnson ◽  
Vishanth Weerakkody
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Structuration Theory ◽  
The Public ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
Level Of Analysis

Digitally-enabled service transformation (DEST) in the public sector (PS) offers a unique opportunity for public administration (PA) and information systems (IS) disciplines to interlace. Such uniqueness has enabled a deviance in the theoretical selection from the adoption of native PA/IS theories to imported social sciences theories including institutional and structuration. Institutional theory provides a way of viewing and explaining why and how institutions emerge in a certain way within a given context, but it falls under the criticism of structural bias as it avoids explanations situated at individual or same level of analysis. Such a gap is filled with structuration theory adoption, focusing on how institutional structures arise, or are maintained through the interplay process. The fusion of such concepts would potentially enrich the debates on DEST in PS by provoking new insights to keep the “research talking.”

Thinking about the state, talking bureaucracy, teaching public administration

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Barberis
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
The State ◽  
Practical Activity ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Bureaucracy ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Many

By examining issues concerning the role and nature of the state together with the character of public bureaucracy, this article shows that, as a practical activity, public administration retains a distinct identity. Notwithstanding the many changes that have taken place in the public sector during recent years, programmes of study in the subject still have much to offer. Such programmes should reassert their place within the social sciences. Their virtues should be proclaimed with confidence, while resisting misplaced calls for more narrowly focused vocationalism.

scholarly journals Pragmatic epistemology and the community of engaged actors

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 398-406
Author(s):  
Srdjan Prodanovic
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Scientific Method ◽  
Alternative Account ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Epistemic Role

In this paper I will explore the relation between engagement and social science. I will try to argue that positivist epistemology found in the early days of social sciences still greatly influences our understanding of social engagement. In the first part of the paper, I will analyze the epistemology of social sciences advocated by Fourier and Saint-Simon and try to show that, for them, scientific method was primarily the means for taming social change, as well as projecting private desires and plans onto the public sphere. In the second part, I will offer an alternative account of social engagement using the epistemic role of the community found in pragmatism.

scholarly journals Social Science Data Archiving and Needs of the Public Sector: the case of Estonia

2011 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Rein Murakas ◽  
Andu Rämmer
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Science Data ◽  
Data Archiving ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Science Data

Social Science Data Archiving and Needs of the Public Sector: the case of Estonia

scholarly journals Community Portals: A False Dawn over the Field of Dreams?

2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen James Musgrave
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Grid Computing ◽  
Commercial Sector ◽  
The Public ◽  
On Line ◽  
Community Portal ◽  
Self Service ◽  
Back Office ◽  
Office Systems

The context is that of UK local government portals, over the period from 1999-2004. The study finds that few existing portals enable on-line access to back office systems to enable self-service interactivity for citizens. Current activities are analogous with a False Dawn in Community Portal development, due to gaps and current inadequacies of portal capability. The Field of Dreams future gives alignment between emerging development in Enterprise Portals in the commercial sector; Grid Computing emanating from the eScience community; and the need for Community Portals in the Public Sector.

Founding the University of California at Irvine

2019 ◽  
pp. 183-214
Author(s):  
Ethan Schrum
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Science Program ◽  
The Public ◽  
American Campus ◽  
The University ◽  
Brighter Future

Chapter 6 shows how the University of California at Irvine, planned under Kerr’s guidance, exemplified the instrumental university in its attempt to install perhaps the most pervasive high modern social science program ever attempted on an American campus. UC Irvine’s planners designed it to be a new kind of land-grant institution, in which social sciences replaced the agricultural sciences. Kerr and his colleagues placed tremendous expectations on interdisciplinary social science for leading humanity to a brighter future. This chapter tells how three related UC Irvine units—the Division of Social Sciences, the Graduate School of Administration, and the Public Policy Research Organization (PPRO)—attempted and failed to realize these expectations.

Leadership and Change in the Public Sector

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Luis Mendez
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Leadership Studies ◽  
Theoretical Orientations ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Specific Position ◽  
Public Sector Leadership ◽  
Leadership And Change

The nature and evolution of the field of studies of public sector leadership can be understood by focusing on four theoretical orientations: institutional, transformational, collaborative, and contingent. The first one argues that, within a democracy, public sector executives do not exercise—or should not exercise—a strong leadership. The second one, on the contrary, stresses their “transformational” role. The third orientation favors more horizontal leading styles, while the last one argues that all the previous types of leadership could emerge depending on the specific conditions. Each of these four orientations takes a specific position toward change and has led to a considerable number of books and articles. This clearly shows that leadership is an important issue in the study of the public sector. It also shows the theoretical fragmentation present in this field and that there is not a fit-all type of leadership. Paradoxically, there is still a noticeable lack of research on some topics, such as the causes and effects of leadership. Thus, there is not a clear understanding yet of the extent to which leading within government makes a positive difference and, in case it does, of how to make it happen. Filling these voids would certainly help this field to gain greater relevance within the wider field of leadership studies as well as in the social sciences in general.

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