The Monograph Tradition and Chinese Scholarship: Beginning with the “Best Young Scholar’s Monograph Prize in the Social Sciences of Practice”

Rural China ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 334-344
Author(s):  
Philip C. C. Huang
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
International Law ◽  
Selection Committee ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
Late Qing ◽  
The Social ◽  
Late Qing China ◽  
Peasant Worker ◽  
China Today ◽  
Identity Production

This article first explains why our “Best Young Scholar’s Monograph Prize in the Social Sciences of Practice” selection committee has chosen the three books International Law and Late Qing China: Texts, Events, and Politics, Rural Development in Contemporary China: Micro Case Examples and Macro Changes, and Urbanizing Children: Identity Production and Political Socialization of Peasant-Worker Sons and Daughters for the award, and then goes on to discuss how monograph production is faced with deeply contradictory forces in the scholarly environment of China today when compared with the American scholarly environment, to explain the purpose of the prize.

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Guo
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Press Freedom ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
Late Qing Dynasty ◽  
Late Qing ◽  
The Social ◽  
Modern Chinese History ◽  
Chinese Perceptions ◽  
History Of ◽  
China Today

Ever since the concept of press freedom was first introduced into China during the late-Qing dynasty, Chinese perceptions of the function of a free press have frequently changed. This research has shown that the social and cultural context shaped the unique interpretations of press freedom in China and impacted the extent to which it was realized in modern Chinese history. There were numerous problems that permeated the history of press freedom in China, problems that continue to influence the experience of press freedom in China today. This chapter concludes by exploring the theoretical and contemporary implications of the conceptual history of press freedom in China.

scholarly journals The Rising Salience of the Absent: An Interactionist Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam Hillyard
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Rural Sociology ◽  
Theory Method ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Rural Studies ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Social

The paper uses examples from rural studies to demonstrate the relevance of symbolic interactionism for unlocking the complexity of contemporary society. It does so by making a case for a nonprescriptive theory-method dialectic. Case examples are drawn upon in support of the argumentation, including early interactionism and ethnographic work in the United Kingdom, and, in the second half of the paper, rural sociology and fieldwork. The main argument presented is that the traditional remit of interactionism should be extended to recognize how absence is increasingly influential. It concludes that interactionism is in tune with other new trajectories in the social sciences that take into consideration co-presence proximity both on and off-line.

A Response

2006 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 1103-1108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martti Koskenniemi
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
International Law ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Social World ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
Specific Relationship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Constant Source ◽  
The Way

From the preceding essays, but also from the general discussion around From Apology, two themes emerge as a constant source of puzzlement, not least to myself. How does the argument in that book affect – if at all – the way we do international law? And what does the claim to be “critical” really mean? These are, I suppose, aspects of one larger set of problems that permeate the whole of that work. “Oh yes, it does describe the argumentative patterns pretty well. But it does not really change anything, does it?” One might approach this sort of query in different ways. It might be thought of as an expression of the classical theme about the relations of theory and practice in the social sciences. How do academic works influence the social world to which they are addressed? Or one might be more interested in the specific relationship between (academic) doctrines and legal practice – the “outside” and the “inside” of the legal profession.

European New Legal Realism and International Law: How to Make International Law Intelligible

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAKOB V. H. HOLTERMANN ◽  
MIKAEL RASK MADSEN
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
International Law ◽  
Complex Analysis ◽  
Sociology Of Law ◽  
Empirical Methods ◽  
Legal Realism ◽  
Realist Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Domestic Law

AbstractInternational law remains in many ways a challenge to legal science. As in domestic law, the available options appear to be exhausted by either internal doctrinal approaches, or external approaches applying more general empirical methods from the social sciences. This article claims that, while these major positions obviously provide interesting insights, none of them manage to make international law intelligible in a broader sense. Instead, it argues for a European New Legal Realist approach to international law accommodating the so-called external and internal dimensions of law in a single more complex analysis which takes legal validity seriously but as a genuinely empirical object of study. This article constructs this position by identifying a distinctively European realist path which takes as its primary inspirations Weberian sociology of law and Alf Ross’ Scandinavian Legal Realism and combines them with insights originating from Bourdieusian sociology of law.

scholarly journals Religious Renaissance in China Today

2011 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Madsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Reform Era ◽  
The Social ◽  
Chinese Religions ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
Structural Functionalism ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
China Today ◽  
New Generation

Since the beginning of the Reform Era in 1979, there has been a rapid growth and development of religious belief and practice in China. A substantial new scholarly literature has been generated in the attempt to document and understand this. This essay identifies the most important contributions to that literature and discusses areas of agreement and controversy across the literature. Along with new data, new paradigms have developed to frame research on Chinese religions. The paradigm derived from C. K. Yang's classic work in the 1960s came from structural functionalism, which served to unite research in the humanities and social sciences. However, structural functionalism has been abandoned by the new generation of scholars. In the humanities, the most popular paradigm derives from Michel Foucault, but there are also scholars who use neo-Durkheimian and neo-Weberian paradigms. In the social sciences, the dominant paradigms tend to focus on state-society relations. None of these paradigms fully captures the complexity of the transformations happening in China. We recommend greater dialogue between the humanities and social sciences in search of more adequate theoretical frameworks for understanding Chinese religions today.

Positivism, Functionalism, and International Law

1940 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 260-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans J. Morgenthau
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
International Law ◽  
Scientific Inquiry ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Natural Reaction ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of International Law

If an event in the physical world contradicts all scientific forecasts, and thus challenges the assumptions on which the forecasts have been based, it is the natural reaction of scientific inquiry to reëxamine the foundations of the specific science and attempt to reconcile scientific findings and empirical facts. The social sciences do not react in the same way. They have an inveterate tendency to stick to their assumptions and to suffer constant defeat from experience rather than to change their assumptions inthe light of contradicting facts. This resistance to change is uppermost in the history of international law. All the schemes and devices by which great humanitarians and shrewd politicians endeavored to reorganize the relations between states on the basis of law, have not stood the trial of history.

International Law and the Social Sciences.

Social Forces ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 638
Author(s):  
Robert C. Angell ◽  
Wesley L. Gould ◽  
Michael Barkun
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
International Law ◽  
The Social
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