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.

Roy Bhaskar’s Critical Realism and the Social Science of Marxian Economics

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Westra
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Critical Realism ◽  
Scientific Discovery ◽  
Historical Materialism ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Marxian Economics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Scientific

This article supports claims that critical realism philosophy of science, as refounded in the hands of Roy Bhaskar, offers valuable knowledge enhancing insight into the advancement of Marx’s research program. However, it maintains that key principles set out by Bhaskar have not been adequately assimilated by those working with critical realism in the field of Marxist studies. When they are properly considered, they point to the necessity of reconstructing Marx’s corpus on a divergent basis from the conventional form it has assumed since the codification of “Marxism” by Karl Kautsky in the late nineteenth century as an overarching theory of history or historical materialism, wherein Marx’s economic studies in Capital are portrayed as but a subtheory. The article summarily breaks down three cardinal scientific principles elaborated by Bhaskar, which carry the most vital implications for Marxism. These are the bringing of ontology “back in” to theory construction, the robust case made for social science as a capital-S science, and the specification of retroduction as strategy for scientific discovery. It then explores the principles with regard to three abiding and interrelated questions of the Marxist research program: first is the very condition of intelligibility of economic theory; second is the question of the raison d’être for the dialectical architecture of Capital; third is the social scientific implications of the cognitive sequence in Marxism. In this endeavor the article introduces work in the Uno-Sekine tradition of Japanese Marxism. It shows how Uno’s reconstruction of Marxism is closely supported by Bhaskar’s fundamental criteria for science in a way that serves to strengthen Marx’s own scientific claims for his work.JEL Classification: B51, B400

(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 Historical Materialism

2018 ◽  
pp. 36-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Blackledge
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Historical Materialism ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Social World ◽  
Theory Of Change ◽  
The Real ◽  
Georg Lukacs ◽  
The Social ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
Theory Of History

Marx’s theory of history is often misrepresented as a mechanically deterministic and fatalistic theory of change in which the complexity of the real world is reduced to simple, unconvincing abstractions. Nothing could be further from the truth. Though Stalin attempted to transform Marxism into something akin to this caricature to justify Russia’s state-capitalist industrialization after 1928, neither Marx nor his most perceptive followers understood historical materialism in this way. This chapter shows that Marx’s theory of history, once unpicked from its misrepresentations, allows us to comprehend social reality as a non-reductive, synthetic, and historical totality. This approach is alive to the complexity of the social world without succumbing to the descriptive eclecticism characteristic of non-Marxist historiography. And by escaping the limits of merely descriptive history, Marxism offers the possibility of a scientific approach to revolutionary practice as the flipside to comprehending the present, as Georg Lukács put it, as a historical problem.

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 PEMBELAJARAN TEMATIK TERPADU DENGAN PENDEKATAN SCIENTIFIC TERHADAP MINAT BELAJAR PADA SISWA KELAS IV SD NEGERI 3 DERMOLO JEPARA

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferina Agustini ◽  
Sihati Harles Saputri
Keyword(s):  
Fourth Graders ◽  
Fourth Grade ◽  
Student Interest ◽  
Design Data ◽  
Significance Level ◽  
Correlational Design ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
Grade 3 ◽  
Thematic Learning

Problem in this study is whether there is a relationship approach to the implementation of an integrated thematic scientific learning on student interest fourth grade 3 Dermolo Country? Goals to be achieved in this study was to find a scientific approach to the implementation of an integrated thematic learning to student interest fourth grade 3 Dermolo country. Population in this study was a public school fourth graders 3 Dermolo the number of 40 students. Samples taken were all student of class IV using sampling techniques proposive. Data were obtained through the techniques of documentation, observation, and questionnaire. Design used was a correlational design. Data analysis after treatment using a scientific approach show are as follow rcount of 0,7494 to 0,3120 rtable is that the significance level 5% so Ho rejected, then there is a significant relationship between a scientific approach to the integrated thematic learning and student interest. Can be concluded there is a relationship between the scientific approach to the integrated thematic learning and student interest. Suggestion that reserchers convey, teachers should foster student interest by using an alternative approach to learning is a scientific approach that can foster students interest in learning to be better. This can be done by getting used to package and deliver exciting learning.

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