Algorithmic ecologies of justice: Using computational social science methods to co-design tools of resistance, resilience and care with communities

This concluding chapter evaluates the increasing tendency of many social scientists to embrace methods and models for their own sake rather than because they can help people answer substantively important questions. This inclination is in part the result of the otherwise normal and productive workings of science but is also reinforced by less positive factors such as organizational self-interest and intellectual culture. As a result of the latter, many political scientists have committed themselves to particular social science methods not so much because they believe they will illuminate real-world policy problems but because they serve a vested interest in disciplinary autonomy and dovetail with a particular image of what a “science” of politics should look like. In other words, the professionalization of social science is the root of the enduring relevance question. The chapter then offers some concrete suggestions for how to reestablish the balance between rigor and relevance in the years to come.

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A Panoply of Social Science Methods to Illuminate the Phenomena, Reduce Researcher Bias, and Permit Disconfirmation

Social Science Methods for Psychodynamic Inquiry ◽

10.1057/9781137524904.0009 ◽

2015 ◽

Keyword(s):

Social Science ◽

Science Methods ◽

Social Science Methods ◽

Researcher Bias

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Reflections on the Achievements of Sidney Verba

The Forum ◽

10.1515/for-2016-0008 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Kristi Andersen

Keyword(s):

Civil Society ◽

Social Science ◽

Political Participation ◽

Representative Democracy ◽

Science Methods ◽

Complex Theory ◽

Social Science Methods ◽

Distinguished Career ◽

Democratic Systems

AbstractSidney Verba’s distinguished career, particularly his books, demonstrate a talent for finding superb collaborators, a deep normative concern about the health of civil society, and a commitment to using social science methods to understand the working of democratic systems. A re-reading of these books shows the development of an increasingly complex theory of political participation undergirding a complex portrait of American representative democracy, with all its flaws and strengths.

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SENGKETA TANAH EKS KERAJAAN DI KOTAWARINGIN BARAT PROVINSI KALIMANTAN TENGAH

MASALAH-MASALAH HUKUM ◽

10.14710/mmh.48.1.2019.25-31 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 48 (1) ◽

pp. 25

Author(s):

I Gusti Ayu Gangga Santi Dewi

Keyword(s):

Social Science ◽

The State ◽

Land Policy ◽

Science Methods ◽

Social Science Methods ◽

And Shifts

Conflicts that ended in court disputes often occurred in the former Kotaringin Kingdom related to the former kingdom lands. Phenomenon of substantive injustice related to former kingdom land policy in the Dictum Fourth letter A UUPA which abolishes former kingdom land and shifts to the State, is an injustice felt by former kingdom parties. Research with the Socio Legal approach with social science methods and theories about law. This research was focused on looking at the facts of the conflict that ended in court disputes and the solution to prevent the disputes of former kingdom land in Kotawaringin Barat.

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