American Sociology and Colonialism, 1890s–1960s

2020 ◽  
pp. 273-293
Author(s):  
George Steinmetz
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Complete Picture ◽  
American Sociology ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Us Empire ◽  
Informal Imperialism ◽  
Science Disciplines

American sociologists nowadays tend to see their discipline as being focused mainly on domestic social problems. This overlooks US sociologists’ widespread engagement in questions of colonialism and empire during the first eight decades of the discipline’s existence. The story of American sociologists’ involvement in US empire has been discussed for the first decades of the discipline, but little is known about the key period 1945–75, which saw the rapid expansion of universities, foundations, and social science disciplines such as sociology. This chapter traces the main lines of sociological involvement in colonialism, formal empire, and informal imperialism, offering a complete picture of American sociological involvement in empire through a wide range of universities, foundations, organizations, and institutes.

The Foundations of Individuals’ Generalized Social Trust

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Thisted Dinesen ◽  
René Bekkers
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Causal Inference ◽  
Social Trust ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Science Disciplines

This chapter reviews the literature on the causes of individuals’ generalized social trust (trust in unknown others) from a wide range of social science disciplines. The chapter structures the review around two broad classes of explanations: dispositional explanations (trust as a disposition) and experiential explanations (trust as a response to individual experiences). Both have been examined in a number of related lines of research, which are reviewed and critically discussed in the chapter. Specific attention is paid to the potential for drawing causal inference—based on the nature of the data employed, and the methods used—in the studies reviewed.

scholarly journals The Foundations of Individuals' Generalized Social Trust: A Review

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rene Bekkers
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Trust ◽  
Quality Of Data ◽  
Causal Inferences ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Science Disciplines

This chapter reviews the literature on the causes of individuals' generalized social trust (trust in unknown others) from a wide-range of social science disciplines. We structure the review around two broad classes of explanations: dispositional explanations (trust as a disposition) and experiential explanations (trust as a response to individual experiences). Specific attention is paid to the potential for drawing causal inferences - based on quality of data, and the methods used - in the studies reviewed.

On the history of political diversity in social psychology

2015 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin R. Binning ◽  
David O. Sears
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Racial Diversity ◽  
Large Shift ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ethnic And Racial Diversity ◽  
Liberal Perspective ◽  
Science Disciplines

AbstractWe argue that the history of political diversity in social psychology may be better characterized by stability than by a large shift toward liberalism. The branch of social psychology that focuses on political issues has defined social problems from a liberal perspective since at least the 1930s. Although a lack of ideological diversity within the discipline can pose many of the problems noted by Duarte et al., we suggest that these problems (a) are less apparent when the insights of social psychology are pitted against the insights from other social science disciplines, and (b) are less pressing than the need for other types of diversity in the field, especially ethnic and racial diversity.

COMPARISON OF CYBER CRIME AWARENESS AMONG SCIENCE AND SOCIAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVE TEACHERS

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (36) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anupam Bansal
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Automatic Control ◽  
Control Systems ◽  
Child Pornography ◽  
Cyber Crime ◽  
Computer Data ◽  
Automatic Control Systems ◽  
Living Things ◽  
Wide Range

“Cyber crime” has been used to describe a wide range of offences, including offences against computer data and systems (such as “Hacking”), computer related forgery and fraud (such as “phishing”), content offences (such as disseminating child pornography), and copyright offences (such as the dissemination of pirated content). The word “Cyber Crime” has been derived from the words “Cybernetic” which means the science of communication and automatic control systems in both machines and living things.

Comparative Area Studies

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Köllner ◽  
Rudra Sil ◽  
Ariel I. Ahram
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Area Studies ◽  
Middle Range ◽  
The Social ◽  
Small N ◽  
Scholarly Discourse ◽  
Science Disciplines

Two convictions lie at the heart of this volume. First, area studies scholarship remains indispensable for the social sciences, both as a means to expand our fount of observations and as a source of theoretical ideas. Second, this scholarship risks becoming marginalized without more efforts to demonstrate its broader relevance and utility. Comparative Area Studies (CAS) is one such effort, seeking to balance attention to regional and local contextual attributes with use of the comparative method in search of portable causal links and mechanisms. CAS engages scholarly discourse in relevant area studies communities while employing concepts intelligible to social science disciplines. In practice, CAS encourages a distinctive style of small-N analysis, cross-regional contextualized comparison. As the contributions to this volume show, this approach does not subsume or replace area studies scholarship but creates new pathways to “middle range” theoretical arguments of interest to both area studies and the social sciences.

Transdisciplinarity

2018 ◽  
pp. 126-138
Author(s):  
James Mittelman ◽  
Daniel Esser
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Transdisciplinary Research ◽  
Global Studies ◽  
Local Dynamics ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Methodological Rigor ◽  
Interdisciplinary Scholarship ◽  
Science Disciplines

This chapter assesses transdisciplinarity as an epistemological and methodological approach to research and teaching in the emerging field of global studies. It posits that the world’s most pressing problems in the areas of migration, health, and intersectional identities, to name a few, are unlikely to be addressed convincingly by inquiries rooted exclusively in singular social science disciplines. At the same time, transdisciplinarity is understood as a means to complement disciplinary research, not to dispense with it. By foregrounding global–local dynamics and their effects across scales, global studies can draw from a wealth of approaches and experiences in interdisciplinary scholarship without becoming entangled in protracted epistemological battles over scholarly turf. This chapter then provides examples of transdisciplinary research in global studies and closes by stressing the importance of disciplinary methodological innovations as building blocks for multimodal designs and arguing for methodological rigor in global studies, whether transdisciplinary or not.

scholarly journals A Virtual Telescope for the Open University Science Foundation Course

1998 ◽  
Vol 162 ◽  
pp. 100-105
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Norton ◽  
Mark H. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Open University ◽  
Distance Teaching ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
University Science ◽  
First Time ◽  
Degree Level ◽  
Selection Of

The Open University is the UK's foremost distance teaching university. For over twenty five years we have been presenting courses to students spanning a wide range of degree level and vocational subjects. Since we have no pre-requisites for entry, a major component of our course profile is a selection of foundation courses comprising one each in the Arts, Social Science, Mathematics, Technology and Science faculties. The Science Faculty's foundation course is currently undergoing a substantial revision. The new course, entitled “S103: Discovering Science”, will be presented to students for the first time in 1998.

Understanding diversity in later life and a new culture of aging: Sociology of aging in Japan

2021 ◽  
pp. 026858092110053
Author(s):  
Daisuke Watanabe
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Older People ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Social Disparities ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
Care Problems ◽  
Sociological Studies

This essay introduces sociological studies on aging and related topics in Japan since 2000. It argues the three following points. First, the results of sociological studies on aging, and those from related social science disciplines, have moved away from a uniform understanding of aging to reveal greater diversity in the process. Second, it has become apparent that older people face various social problems, such as social isolation, social disparities, and family care problems. Studies have argued that it is essential to support mutual aid in the community. Finally, the reflexivity of high modernity attempts to push the problem of aging towards autonomy, but a new culture of aging assumes that dependence has the potential to overcome this reflexivity.

Decoding the Sino-North Korean Borderlands

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Information Flows ◽  
Significant Volume ◽  
Critical Scholarship ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
A Site ◽  
Multiple Languages ◽  
Gradual Transformation

Since the 1990s, the Chinese-North Korean border region has undergone a gradual transformation into a site of intensified cooperation, competition, and intrigue. These changes have prompted a significant volume of critical scholarship and media commentary across multiple languages and disciplines. Drawing on existing studies and new data, Decoding the Sino-North Korean Borderlands brings much of this literature into concert by pulling together a wide range of insight on the region's economics, security, social cohesion, and information flows. Drawing from multilingual sources and transnational scholarship, this volume is enhanced by the extensive fieldwork undertaken by the editors and contributors in their quests to decode the borderland. In doing so, the volume emphasizes the link between theory, methodology, and practice in the field of Area Studies and social science more broadly.

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