Budget cut threatens novel social science research program at Department of Defense

Science ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Mervis
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Department Of Defense ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research

Franciscan Missions and Chiriguano Workers: Colonization, Acculturation and Indian Labor in Southeastern Bolivia

1987 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erick D. Langer
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Franciscan Missions ◽  
American Foundation ◽  
Science Research Council

An earlier version of this essay was presented at the Symposium “Bolivia: Formation and Development of a Labor Force, 1600 to the Present,” organized by Ann Zulawski and Lesley Gill for the 45th International Congress of Americanists, Bogotá, Colombia, 1985. The author wishes to thank Robert H. Jackson, Brooke Larson, and Nils Jacobsen for their comments on the paper. Research funds were provided by the Social Science Research Council, Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Research Program, and the Inter-American Foundation.

Office Hours: How (Critical) Norm Research Can Regain Its Voice

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Engelkamp ◽  
Katharina Glaab ◽  
Judith Renner
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Critical Research ◽  
Research Perspective ◽  
Political Position ◽  
Western Values

AbstractSocial Science research cannot be neutral. It always involves, so the argument of this article, the (re)production of social reality and thus has to be conceived as political practice. From this perspective, the present article looks into constructivist norm research. In the first part, we argue that constructivist norm research is political insofar as it tends to reproduce Western values that strengthen specific hegemonic discursive structures. However, this particular political position is hardly reflected on in norm research. Hence, it is our goal in the second part of the article to outline research strategies potentially useful in reflective and critical norm research. We propose a critical research program based upon three central methodological steps that are inspired by post-structuralism: first, the questioning of global hegemonic values; second, the reconstruction of marginalized knowledge; and third, the explicit reflection of one’s own research perspective.

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