scholarly journals The past and future of the social sciences. A Schumpeterian theory of scientific development?

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 1701-1722
Author(s):  
Stefano Lucarelli ◽  
Alfonso Giuliani ◽  
Hervé Baron
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Scientific Development ◽  
The Past ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Japanese Scholar ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Questions

AbstractThe paper argues that Vergangenheit und Zukunft der Sozialwissenschaften (The Past and Future of the Social Sciences), a contribution not always well understood in the literature, is important to an understanding of Schumpeter’s concept of development as applied to the field of the social sciences. To this end, it addresses three key questions. First, can the book be taken as a starting point to reconstruct a Schumpeterian theory of scientific development? Second, is Vergangenheit und Zukunft merely ‘a brief outline of what first became the Epochen [der Dogmen- und Methodengeschichte] and finally the History of Economic Analysis’, as Elizabeth Boody Schumpeter wrote in her Editor’s Introduction (July 1952) to the latter work (p. XXXII), or should it be read as a complement to Epochen and perhaps the History? Third, is the eminent Japanese scholar Shionoya right to claim that Schumpeter’s work pursued the ambitious goal of developing a ‘comprehensive sociology’?

The Problem

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mats Alvesson ◽  
Yiannis Gabriel ◽  
Roland Paulsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Prestigious Journal ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Academic Researchers ◽  
History Of ◽  
Wide Gap

This chapter introduces ‘the problem’ of meaningless research in the social sciences. Over the past twenty years there has been an enormous growth in research publications, but never before in the history of humanity have so many social scientists written so much to so little effect. Academic research in the social sciences is often inward looking, addressed to small tribes of fellow researchers, and its purpose in what is increasingly a game is that of getting published in a prestigious journal. A wide gap has emerged between the esoteric concerns of social science researchers and the pressing issues facing today’s societies. The chapter critiques the inaccessibility of the language used by academic researchers, and the formulaic qualities of most research papers, fostered by the demands of the publishing game. It calls for a radical move from research for the sake of publishing to research that has something meaningful to say.

Marxist Historiography Today

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Hobsbawm
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Human Society ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Methodology Of Science ◽  
The Way

This chapter discusses Marxist historiography in the present times. In the interpretation of the world nowadays, there has been a rise in the so-called anti-Rankean reaction in history, of which Marxism is an important but not always fully acknowledged element. This movement challenged the positivist belief that the objective structure of reality was self-explanatory, and that all that was needed was to apply the methodology of science to it and explain why things happened the way they did. This movement also brought together history with the social sciences, therefore turning it into part of a generalizing discipline capable of explaining transformations of human society in the course of its past. This new perspective on the past is a return to ‘total history’, in which the focus is not merely on the ‘history of everything’ but history as an indivisible web wherein all human activities are interconnected.

scholarly journals Where Is This Story Going? A Critical Analysis of the Emerging Field of Narrative Criminology

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shadd Maruna ◽  
Marieke Liem
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Online Publication ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Annual Review ◽  
Publication Date ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
History Of ◽  
Narrative Scholarship

Over the past decade, a growing body of literature has emerged under the umbrella of narrative criminology. We trace the origins of this field to narrative scholarship in the social sciences more broadly and review the recent history of criminological engagement in this field. We then review contemporary developments, paying particular attention to research around desistance and victimology. Our review highlights the most important critiques and challenges for narrative criminology and suggests fruitful directions in moving forward. We conclude by making a case for the consolidation and integration of narrative criminology, in hopes that this movement becomes more than an isolated clique. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Criminology, Volume 4 is January 13, 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

scholarly journals “The Past Is an Appeal”

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 148-176
Author(s):  
Meryl Altman
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Simone De Beauvoir ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Future Topics

Abstract As the International Simone de Beauvoir Society celebrates the relaunch of Simone de Beauvoir Studies, the author looks back with gratitude to longtime editor Yolanda Patterson and reviews what the journal’s thirty-year history has to tell us about Beauvoir scholarship, past, present, and future. Topics discussed include the history of the Society; engagements with Beauvoir from the perspectives of literary criticism, philosophy, and the social sciences; and controversies over Beauvoir’s character, her response to the Occupation, her relationship to Sartre, and her legacy for feminism.

Globalisation: An Old Phenomenon That Needs to Be Rediscovered for Tourism?

2003 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 306-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk Reiser
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Case Study Area ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Common Concept ◽  
Historical Developments

Globalisation is a common concept in the social sciences; its meaning, however, is contested. Therefore in the first part the paper provides a framework of the term ‘globalisation’ as well as a definition. This definition is then connected with another contested term: ‘tourism’. In the second part, the research methods used to research globalisation and tourism in a case study area, the Otago Peninsula in Dunedin, New Zealand, are outlined. The research methods are linked with specific historical developments in the case study area in the past, the present and the future. The third part gives some preliminary results of the ongoing research project. Of particular interest is the model that links the history of the Otago Peninsula and its environments, tourism and globalisation.

scholarly journals Review of Race Scholarship and the War on Terror

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Cainkar ◽  
Saher Selod
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
South Asians ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Structural Racism ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Black Muslim

The 9/11 terrorist attacks and heavy-handed state and popular response to them stimulated increased scholarship on American Muslims. In the social sciences, this work has focused mainly on Arabs and South Asians, and more recently on African Americans. The majority of this scholarship has not engaged race theory in a comprehensive or intersectional manner. The authors provide an overview of the work on Muslims over the past 15 years and argue that the Muslim experience needs to be situated within race scholarship. The authors further show that September 11 did not create racialized Muslims, Arabs, or South Asians. Rather, the authors highlight a preexisting, racializing war on terror and a more complex history of these groups with race both globally and domestically. Islamophobia is a popular term used to talk about Muslim encounters with discrimination, but the concept lacks a clear understanding of race and structural racism. Newer frameworks have emerged situating Muslim experiences within race scholarship. The authors conclude with a call to scholars to embark on studies that fill major gaps in this emerging field of study—such as intersectional approaches that incorporate gender, communities of belonging, black Muslim experiences, class, and sexuality—and to remain conscious of the global dimensions of this racial project.

scholarly journals Reflexiones en torno a la historia de las emociones, la historia del tiempo presente y la experiencia

2019 ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Daniela Belmar Mac-Vicar
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Modern History ◽  
History Of Emotions ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

Este trabajo reflexiona acerca de los antecedentes antropológicos, sociológicos y psicológicos que durante los últimos veinte años los historiadores le han atribuido a la historia de las emociones. Los hallazgos de estas disciplinas en ese campo, les ha permitido a los historiadores argumentar que las emociones o, al menos, la expresión de ellas, varía culturalmente. Desde estas referencias, los historiadores han podido justificar el estudio historiográfico de las emociones, ya que ellas tendrían historicidad. Pese a lo anterior, se plantea que esa relación con las ciencias sociales obstaculiza cuestionamientos más profundos respecto de la historicidad de las emociones y, específicamente, respecto de su tratamiento historiográfico. En la misma línea, se propone que dicha vinculación con las Ciencias Sociales dificulta la evaluación de los efectos que las emociones provocaron en el pasado, y, al mismo tiempo, en el presente. Dicho esto, se revisan sus antecedentes a la luz de la historia del tiempo presente y la historia de la experiencia.Reflections on the History of Emotions, History of the Present Time and the History of Experience AbstractThis article reflects on the anthropological, sociological and psychological background attributed by historians during the last twenty years to the history of emotions. The fieldwork findings of these disciplines have allowed historians to argue that emotions, or at least their expression, varies culturally. Using these as a reference, historians have been able to justify the historiographic study of emotions. Nevertheless, it is proposed that this relation to the social sciences impedes a more in-depth inquiry into the history of emotions and, specifically, its historiographic treatment. In the same line, it is proposed that these ties to the social sciences makes it difficult to evaluate the effects caused by emotions in both the past and present. That said, the background of emotions is reviewed in light of modern history and the history of experience.Keywords: history of emotions, social sciences, modern history, experience 

Non-Traditional Modern Advaita Gurus in the West and Their Traditional Modern Advaita Critics

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 6-37
Author(s):  
Phillip Charles Lucas
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
The Other ◽  
Advaita Vedanta ◽  
The West ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Natural Processes ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of

The Modern Advaita movement has undergone a split between two factions: one remains committed to a more traditional articulation of Advaita Vedanta, and the other has departed in significant ways from this traditional spiritual system. Over the past fifteen years, the Traditional Modern Advaita (TMA) faction has launched sustained and wide-ranging criticism of Non-Traditional Modern Advaita (NTMA) teachers and teachings. This article identifies the main themes of TMA criticisms and interprets their significance using insights from the social sciences and history of religions. I suggest that some reconfiguring of the Advaita tradition is necessary as it expands in transnational directions, since the structures of intelligibility from one culture to another are rarely congruent. Indeed, adaptation, accommodation and reconfiguration are normal and natural processes for religious traditions expanding beyond their indigenous cultural matrices. In the end, the significant questions for Advaita missionaries to the West may be how much accommodation is prudent, how rapidly reconfiguration should take place, and what adaptations are necessary for their spiritual methodology not only to survive but also thrive in new cultural settings.

Sociology, political science and anthropology: institutionalization, professionalization and internationalization in Argentina

2005 ◽  
Vol 44 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 227-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Murmis
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Political Science ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
National Level ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Military Interventions ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

Full institutionalization of sociology, anthropology and political science occurred in Argentina in the late 1950s. While sociology started out as an established field having radically broken with the past of the discipline, both anthropology and political science established linkages with traditional versions of their fields. Although there were differences between them, the three disciplines evolved through a process of frequent crises, resulting mostly from military interventions at the national level. Institutionalization brought with it an expansion of the labor market and the opportunities for obtaining research funds, thus generating growing professionalization. This expansion as well as the response of social scientists to repression in universities was strongly related to links with foreign foundations and international organizations. Until 1983, the dramatic history of the social sciences was marked by disappearances (desapariciones) and exile. In recent years the three disciplines have grown and diversified.

Experience and Concepts ‐ Between Democracy and Dictatorship

1980 ◽  
Vol 15 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 289-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Dietrich Bracher
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Public Support ◽  
German Society ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
The One

IN THE FIELDS OF CONTEMPORARY HISTORY AND POLITICAL science, the German discussion during the past thirty years has taken many unexpected turns. On the one hand, the expansion of political and social studies has led to often very exaggerated forms of specialization and theorization; the quantity of books and articles either on methodology or on fragmented details can hardly be mastered even by dedicated professionals. On the other hand, symptomatic of profound changes on the institutional and political level of German society is a marked polarization among social and political scientists, which has taken place mainly during the past ten to fifteen years; the historians are following the trend by confronting the ‘progressive’ methods of social and structural analysis with the ‘traditional’ history of persons, events and institutions. At the same time, an increasing demand for more personnel and more funds in the field of the social sciences, initially justified by the scarcity of public support, has now been followed by critical doubts about the expanding number of students and academic people pressing for positions.

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