Social Scientific Approach to the Hebrew Bible

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-300
Author(s):  
Mark Sneed
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
Social Scientific

scholarly journals Sosiologiese en antropologiese insigte en die studie van die Hebreeuse Bybel: 'n Bestekopname1

2000 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul A. Kruger
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Social Scientific Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Scientific Research ◽  
Social Scientific

Sociological and anthropological insights and the study of the Hebrew Bible: A review. This article reviews the main trends in the social-scientific study of the Hebrew Bible. It focuses on the following central issues: the theoretical principles underlying this approach, anthropologists and the Hebrew Bible, the Hebrew Bible and comparative anthropology, anthropological evidence from African cultures, and the Hebrew Bible in social-scientific research: perils and prospects.

(Re)Considering Information Science Research

2020 ◽  
pp. 286-306
Author(s):  
Norma Ruth Arlene Romm ◽  
Patrick Ngulube
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Ethical Justification ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
Social Scientific

This chapter provides an epistemological and ethical justification for (re)considering information science in terms of its potential to contribute to the way in which “information” and “knowledge” become co-constructed in social life in view of social justice aims. The chapter refers to and extends arguments for viewing information science as an interdisciplinary and indeed transdisciplinary endeavor. This is discussed in relation to transformative and indigenous-oriented paradigms for social research considered more generally and also considered specifically in relation to information science (as a social scientific approach). The chapter provides a detailed example of how the transformative potential of information science might be realized. This example can serve as a resource for information science researchers and for information systems practitioners who may find that it has some relevance to their continued work. The chapter also offers suggestions for expanding the research possibilities (co-inquiry options) provided by the example.

scholarly journals The Study of Involuntary Migration as a Hermeneutical Guide for Reading the Jacob Narrative

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 485-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.A. Strine
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Asylum Seeker ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Social Scientific Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
Involuntary Migration ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
The One

AbstractThe patriarch Jacob is an involuntary migrant. Jacob lives as an asylum seeker from Esau’s threat of violence and then as a refugee under Laban’s protection. Eventually, Jacob returns ‘home’ to Canaan, but he finds there a society totally different than the one he remembers or imagines. Jacob resembles involuntary migrants from other cultures in all of these ways. The experiences of other involuntary migrants can and should, therefore, guide interpretation of this narrative. This article, therefore, exegetes the texts concerning Jacob in Genesis 25-33 by utilising findings from the social-scientific study of involuntary migration, James C. Scott’s work on subaltern resistance, and studies on the role of trickster narratives in the Hebrew Bible. By generating new interpretive solutions to perennially problematic passages and showing the prominence of the experience of involuntary migration in Genesis, this article outlines an important new hermeneutical approach relevant not only for this text but also for a large number of texts in the Hebrew Bible concerned with involuntary migration.

Meaningful Research of Meaning

1996 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 123-134
Author(s):  
Ilja Maso ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The Third ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Meaningful Research

In the first section of this contribution, three conditions for scientific research into answers to fundamental, existential questions are discussed. However, because these conditions seem to violate concepts such as 'intersubjectivity' and 'truth', the second section deals with the question in which way a scientific approach that satisfies these three conditions can still be called scientific. The 'possibilistic scientific view' that results from this investigation, will in the third section be exemplified by qualitative research. It will be demonstrated that this social scientific approach can meet the three aforementioned conditions. In the last section, one of the features of such a qualitative approach (and perhaps of any scientific approach) will be emphasized. 'Radical subjectivity' will be presented as a way to fully satisfy the third condition of research into questions of meaning.

scholarly journals Racialized capitalism: An account of its contested origins and consolidation

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satnam Virdee
Keyword(s):  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Historical Materialism ◽  
Victorian Britain ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
Emancipatory Politics ◽  
Class Struggles ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Historical Capitalism ◽  
Capitalist Rule

Undergirded by the perspective of historical materialism in dialogue with black Marxism and Marxist feminism, this article constructs an account demonstrating the significance of racism to the making of modernity. The analytic returns of unthinking Eurocentric sociologies in favour of a more unified historical social scientific approach include the unmasking of the intimate relationship between capitalism, class struggles and racism, particularly how capitalist rule advanced through a process of differentiation and hierarchical re-ordering of the global proletariat. From the 17th-century colonization of Virginia to Victorian Britain and beyond, racism formed an indispensable weapon in the armoury of the state elites, used to contain the class struggles waged by subaltern populations with a view to making the system safe for capital accumulation. Additionally, situating an account of racism within the unfolding story of historical capitalism as against the postcolonial tendency to locate it within the civilizational encounter between the West and the Rest helps make transparent the plurality of racisms, including the racialization of parts of the European proletariat. This explanation of the structuring force of racism and the differentiated ways in which the proletariat has been incorporated into capitalist relations of domination has important implications for emancipatory politics. A race-blind politics risks leaving untouched the injustices produced by historic and contemporaneous racisms. Instead, an alternative approach is proposed, one that invites movements to wilfully entangle demands for economic justice with anti-racism and thereby embrace and demystify the differences inscribed into the collective body of the proletariat by capitalism.

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