Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Christina Ergas
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
New Economy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Ecological Aspects ◽  
The Social ◽  
Urban Farm

The introduction makes the case for why it is important to envision alternatives to current socioecological practices, for both psychological as well as social movement reasons. Mounting evidence suggests that many converging environmental crises are caused by unequal social structures, thus social scientists have insights into how inequalities shape environmental problems and what can be done to solve them. This book explores two holistic examples of socioecological sustainability: an urban ecovillage in the United States and an urban farm in Cuba. It argues that alternative visions and solutions must be holistic, attending to the social and ecological aspects of sustainability. With these insights, communities can develop a vision that will help them move beyond debilitating fear and denial toward a just transition to a new economy.

Prospects for Social Reporting in the United States: A Receding Horizon

1987 ◽  
Vol 8 (x) ◽  
pp. 251-261
Author(s):  
Richard C. Rockwell
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
United States ◽  
Real World ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Reporting ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Scientific Advance ◽  
The Real ◽  
Incomplete Model ◽  
The Social

This essay sets forth the thesis that social reporting in the United States has suffered from an excess of modesty among social scientists. This modesty might be traceable to an incomplete model of scientific advance. one that has an aversion to engagement with the real world. The prospects for social reporting in the United States would be brighter if reasonable allowances were to be made for the probable scientific yield of the social reporting enterprise itself. This yield could support and improve not only social reporting but also many unrelated aspects of the social sciences.

scholarly journals Editorial

2008 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. i-viii
Author(s):  
Katherine Bullock
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Vice President ◽  
The United States ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Board Members ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Social ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Muslim Scholars

This year AJISS turns twenty-five. In 1983, during a meeting of the Associationof Muslim Social Scientists’ (AMSS) executive board in Plainfield,Indiana, the pros and cons of establishing a journal were discussed in greatdetail and at length. The board members, Dr.Waheed Fakri (president), Dr.Sulayman S. Nyang (vice president), and Dawood Zwink (treasurer) agreedthat the United States needed a Muslim-led and Muslim-organized scholarlypublication to address important issues at home and abroad. In theirvision, the journal would educate university and college students, as well aspolicymakers, with respect to the life and conditions ofMuslims in the socialsciences. In addition, the journal would be a vehicle for articulating andaggregating Muslim views and understanding of the social sciences.Another objective was to provide a forum for Muslim scholars, andespecially for those associated with the AMSS, to publish their research.At the time, it was felt that Muslim scholars engaged in social scienceresearch projects with an Islamic perspective found mainstream scholarlyjournals inhospitable. The board thought that the proposed journal wouldbecome – as it has – a forum for cutting-edge research in the social sciencesand the humanities, employing both the standard social scienceresearch methodologies as well as the Islamic theoretical and methodologicalperspectives.Two issues were critical: (1) obtaining the financial resources needed tosustain the proposed journal and (2) its viability and effectiveness. After thego-ahead decision had been taken, and in order to establish the journal, theboard members drew upon the intellect and services of AMSS members aswell as friends and sympathizers. With this in mind, Dr. Mumtaz Ahmad, arespected and activeAMSS member and friend of Dr. Nyang, was proposedas the journal’s co-editor. Dr. Nyang became the editor-in-chief and Dr.Ahmad, a former editor of a scholarly journal in Pakistan, became the editor.Several prominent Muslims were invited to serve on the advisory boardto widen the circle of involvement ...

The Creationist Movement in the United States

2020 ◽  
pp. 63-88
Author(s):  
Kathleen C. Oberlin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Effective Leaders ◽  
Political Opportunities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Tactical Decision ◽  
Historical Examination ◽  
Over Time

Through a close historical examination of archived newsletters (1963-2007) from four different creationist organizations, this chapter traces potential sites Answers in Genesis might have built instead to reach and influence a broader public such as a college or a research center among other strategies. In light of these available alternatives, it shows how the museum emerged over time when Young Earth Creationists shifted the focus of the social movement away from Old Earth Creationism, advanced effective leaders who reassessed previous movement actions, and adapted to the sociocultural as well as political environment of the 1970s and 1980s. It argues the rise of Answers in Genesis as an organization and its tactical decision to build a museum only came as a surprise because scholars were previously limited to examining political opportunities and legislation advanced by the movement.

Ambiguous Financial Responsibilities: Second Wives and Alimony Reform Activism in the United States

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (17) ◽  
pp. 2474-2494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jocelyn Elise Crowley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Financial Transfers ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Boundary Ambiguity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Financial Obligations

Alimony, which involves financial transfers from mostly men to women after a divorce, has recently received more scrutiny in the United States by members of an emerging social movement. These activists are attempting to change alimony policy in ways that economically benefit them. One important part of this movement are second wives, who ally themselves with their new husbands and against first wives in the pursuit of alimony reform. This analysis examines how these second wives articulate their objections to alimony by introducing the concept of economic boundary ambiguity, meaning in this case, a state of human relationships where financial obligations between first and second wives are contested. In addition to creating several tangible stressors, economic boundary ambiguity can also have important consequences for women’s own social identities as well as the collective identity and the success of the social movement overall.

U.S. National Commission for UNESCO Conference: Africa and the United States

1961 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 41-46
Author(s):  
Simon ◽  
Phoebe Ottenberg
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Personal Contact ◽  
National Commission ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Boston University ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
To Come

The Eighth National Conference of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO was held in Boston, October 22-26, 1961 , in cooperation with Boston University. The theme of the conference was “Africa and the United States: Images and Realities.” The conference was attended by over two thousand persons. More than sixty Africans took part, many of whom are prominent in political, educational, or cultural affairs in their home countries. This was probably the largest conference on Africa ever held in the United States, and its participants represented an unusually broad range of interests. Included were educators, journalists, social scientists, technical experts, industrialists, foundation representatives, librarians, artists, writers, government officials, and well-informed layment. The range and scholarliness of the papers presented indicated that there is a growing body of persons in the United States who have had personal contact with African affairs, and also that the United States is beginning to come of age in its understanding of the African continent, not only in the social sciences but in the arts, in the communications field, and in science and technology as well as in other areas.

Chicana/o Ethnography

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Gonzalez ◽  
Xóchitl Chávez
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
United States ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Mexican Americans ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ethnic Mexicans

Chicana/o ethnography is a subfield of Chicana/o anthropology and sociocultural anthropology. There are two ways of looking at the term Chicana/o ethnography: one, as the work conducted and written by self-identified Chicana/o anthropologists and social scientists; two, as the anthropological work produced on Chicanas/os and US-based ethnic Mexicans. Chicana/o ethnography emerges in the late 1960s with the Chicano Power movement in the United States. With the entry of Chicana/o PhDs in the social sciences and in particular anthropology during the 1960s, the field of cultural anthropology became the site of contested counter-narratives by racialized groups in the United States. Those self-identifying as Chicana/o and receiving degrees in the social sciences ushered in a critique of anthropology’s colonial and imperial legacy. In particular, conducting ethnographic fieldwork and writing ethnographies on US ethnic Mexicans by non-Mexicans came under scrutiny by Mexican Americans. Although there have been Mexican and Mexican American social scientists that have studied US Mexican communities since the late 19th century, the emergence of Chicana/o ethnography is situated out of political struggle both in Chicana/o communities and in universities throughout the United States. Since then, Chicana/o ethnography has evolved to include ethnographic studies on expressive culture and folklore, identity formation, transnational migration and communities, community studies, US-Mexico borderlands studies, social movements, and (il)legality and subject formation. Accordingly, this bibliography begins with initial texts and works that contested the ways in which anthropologists and social scientists initially viewed the US Mexican population and the politics of conducting research in Chicana/o communities. This bibliography emphasizes the field of Chicana/o anthropology as it pertains to the production of ethnographic work by Chicana/o anthropologists and the ethnographic work on Chicana/o communities, cultures, and experience. It does not encapsulate all of the ethnographic work conducted by Chicana/o social scientists in fields other than anthropology nor does it include all the ethnographic work conducted on Chicana/o lives by social scientists. Instead, it also incorporates several key works by social scientists that further the field of Chicana/o anthropology and sociocultural anthropology.

The Old-New Distinction and Naturalization: 1900

1980 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 492-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avery M. Guest
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
The Social

The literature on American immigration frequently distinguishes between the assimilation of the old groups, primarily from Northern and Western Europe, and the new groups, primarily from Southern and Eastern Europe. This article analyzes old-new differences in naturalization, one possible measure of assimilation. Data described here indicate a clear difference in 1900 between the new and old groups in their rates of assimilation, but little difference in eventual degrees of naturalization among persons who have been in the United States for some period of time. It is suggested that some of the remaining differences may be a result of the social structures of the origin countries.

Knowledge Utilization

1987 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-8
Author(s):  
Jean Schensul
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Knowledge Utilization ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Minority Community ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
The Social ◽  
Anthropological Research ◽  
Ethnic Minority Community

This paper addresses the question of what makes knowledge useful within the framework of anthropological inquiry. Some anthropologists and other social scientists believe that knowledge is intrinsically useful. Others have claimed that knowledge becomes useful only in the social context within which it is to be used; that is, it is the context which makes it useful. Still others claim that the utility of knowledge depends on the process of dissemination, its format or other formal characteristics. In this paper I will first define knowledge utilization, and then discuss anthropological knowledge. The second part of the paper will review a case example in which knowledge based on anthropological research is used in an ethnic minority community in the United States. The conclusion summarizes some central principles or guidelines for the utilization of ethnographic research in community problem solving.

The Social Science Analyst Examinations

1939 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 441-450
Author(s):  
Lewis B. Sims
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Social ◽  
Service Commission ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Civil Service Commission ◽  
Forward Looking

On March 15, 1937, the United States Civil Service Commission, in a forward-looking attempt to keep pace with the increasing demand for trained social scientists in the federal service, announced an examination for “social science analysts”—six grades in all—as follows

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