From geographical pluralism to discourse pluralism

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 647-661
Author(s):  
Lizhong Xie
Keyword(s):  
Sociological Knowledge ◽  
Western Intellectual

Like other pluralists, geographical pluralists oppose Western intellectual hegemony and advocate the diversity of sociological knowledge. Such appeals are reasonable and justified, but they give up the universality of knowledge while pursuing the diversity of knowledge, implicitly creating the danger of fragmenting knowledge. On the contrary, from the standpoint of discourse constructivism, a discourse pluralism can be constructed to enable us to not only deconstruct the intellectual hegemony of Western sociology but also pursue universal sociological knowledge.

Public space of the trustworthiness of sociological knowledge: The case of electoral research

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-22
Author(s):  
OLEKSANDR STEGNII
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Good Tool ◽  
Sociological Knowledge ◽  
The Public ◽  
Approval Ratings ◽  
The Impact

The paper analyses specific features of sociological data circulation in a public space during an election campaign. The basic components of this kind of space with regard to sociological research are political actors (who put themselves up for the election), voters and agents. The latter refer to professional groups whose corporate interests are directly related to the impact on the election process. Sociologists can also be seen as agents of the electoral process when experts in the field of electoral sociology are becoming intermingled with manipulators without a proper professional background and publications in this field. In a public space where an electoral race is unfolding, empirical sociological research becomes the main form of obtaining sociological knowledge, and it is primarily conducted to measure approval ratings. Electoral research serves as an example of combining the theoretical and empirical components of sociological knowledge, as well as its professional and public dimensions. Provided that sociologists meet all the professional requirements, electoral research can be used as a good tool for evaluating the trustworthiness of results reflecting the people’s expression of will. Being producers of sociological knowledge, sociologists act in two different capacities during an election campaign: as analysts and as pollsters. Therefore, it is essential that the duties and areas of responsibility for professional sociologists should be separated from those of pollsters. Another thing that needs to be noted is the negative influence that political strategists exert on the trustworthiness of survey findings which are going to be released to the public. Using the case of approval ratings as an illustration, the author analyses the most common techniques aimed at misrepresenting and distorting sociological data in the public space. Particular attention is given to the markers that can detect bogus polling companies, systemic violations during the research process and data falsification.

Agama dan Magi dalam Kepemimpinan Ulama Banten: Telaah terhadap Naskah Catatan Harian Abuya Muqri (1860-1959)

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 383-408
Author(s):  
Mahmudah Nur
Keyword(s):  
Research Issue ◽  
Sociological Knowledge ◽  
Daily Record ◽  
Important Position

This paper is the result of research on the exploration of the work of scholars (ulama) in Banten Province. The focus of this study is on the ability of Abuya Muqri in the field of religion and magic as one of the symbols of the leadership of a Kiai in the Banten region.  The philology approach was used in this study to examine the authenticity of the text. As for analyzing the content of the text that is associated with this research issue, the author uses the sociological knowledge and intertextual approach to see the consistency and relationships of Abuya Muqri's thoughts or ideas in his writing, namely the Abuya Muqri’s diary as a leadership concept in the Banten region. This study shows that abilities in religion and magic are the most important indicators for clerics in the Banten region. Without both, the clerics have no important position in the Banten community. With the ability of religion and magic (the wisdom of wisdom) written in Naskah Catatan Harian Abuya Muqri, Abuya Muqri was successfully recognized as one of the famous Kiai in Banten and made it a knot of wisdom in Banten in the 20th century.Keywords: Leadership, Abuya Muqri, Religion, Magi and Abuya Muqri Daily Record Manuscripts (NHCAM) Tulisan ini merupakan hasil penelitian mengenai eksplorasi karya ulama di Provinsi Banten. Kajian ini berfokus pada kemampuan Abuya Muqri dalam bidang agama dan magi sebagai salah satu simbol ke­pemimpinan seorang kiai di wilayah Banten. Pendekatan filologi diguna­kan dalam kajian ini untuk memeriksa otentisitas teksnya. Adapun untuk menganalisis isi teksnya yang dikaitkan dengan isu penelitian ini, penulis menggunakan pendekatan sosiologi pengetahuan serta intertekstual untuk melihat konsistensi dan hubungan-hubungan pemikiran atau ide Abuya Muqri dalam karya tulisnya, yaitu naskah buku catatan harian Abuya Muqri sebagai sebuah konsep kepemimpinan di wilayah Banten. Kajian ini menunjukkan bahwa kemampuan dalam agama dan magi menjadi indikator paling penting bagi para kiai di wilayah Banten. Tanpa kedua­nya, para kiai tidak mempunyai kedudukan yang penting dalam masyarakat Banten. Dengan kemampuan agama dan magi (ilmu hikmah) yang tertulis dalam Naskah Catatan Harian Abuya Muqri, Abuya Muqri berhasil diakui sebagai salah satu kiai yang terkenal di Banten dan menjadikannya sebagai simpul ilmu hikmah di Banten pada abad ke-20.Kata kunci: Kepemimpian, Abuya Muqri, Agama, Magi dan Naskah Catatan Harian Abuya Muqri (NCHAM)

International Relations Studies in China

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianwei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Political Control ◽  
Degree Programs ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Intellectual Community ◽  
Ir Studies ◽  
Western Intellectual

This article traces the evolution of international relations studies as an academic discipline in China in the last two decades or so. Almost non-existent before the 1980s, IR studies has become an increasingly dynamic, sophisticated, and popular field of social science in both teaching and research. This is reflected in the growth of institutions, degree programs, scholarship and paradigmatic debate as well as interaction with the Western intellectual community in both theory and personnel. Nevertheless, the development of IR studies in China is still in its primitive stage and it must contend with various problems such as political control, a lack of well-trained scholars, inadequate funding, and ideational uncertainty.

Why Sociological Knowledge is not Cumulative: A Reply to Professor Freese

1972 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 483 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Willer ◽  
Judith Willer
Keyword(s):  
Sociological Knowledge

Sociology after Fordism: Prospects and problems

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 537-556 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Holmwood
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Social Knowledge ◽  
Sociological Knowledge ◽  
The Public ◽  
Critical Knowledge ◽  
New Form

A number of commentators have suggested that the shift from a Fordist to a post-Fordist regime of political economy has had positive consequences for sociology, including the reinforcement of critical sociologies ( Burawoy, 2005 ; Steinmetz, 2005 ). This article argues that, although disciplinary hierarchies have been destabilized, what is emerging is a new form of instrumental knowledge, that of applied interdisciplinary social studies. This development has had a particular impact upon sociology. Savage and Burrows (2007) , for example, argue that sociological knowledge no longer has a privileged claim to authority and is increasingly in competition with social knowledge produced by the private sector and agencies of the public sector. The response of many sociologists to such claims has been to reassert the importance of the discipline as the purveyor of critically relevant knowledge about society. The article traces how the idea of internal critique within sociology has developed to embrace ‘knowing capitalism’ ( Thrift, 2005 ), at the same time as declaring the impossibility of sociological knowledge. The critique of sociology also becomes the critique of critique and what remains is the instrumentalization of knowledge. Where many sociologists continue to claim a special interest in critical knowledge, the article suggests that, in contrast, we potentially confront the problem that such knowledge may itself be facing a crisis of reproduction.

scholarly journals Privacy-Respecting Location-Based Service Infrastructures: A Socio-Technical Approach to Requirements Engineering

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Lothar Fritsch
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Requirements Engineering ◽  
Data Protection ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Boundary Object ◽  
Location Based Service ◽  
Technical Approach ◽  
Sociological Knowledge ◽  
Application Specific

This article presents an approach for the design of location-based information systems that support privacy functionality. Privacy-enhancing technology (PET) has been available for a considerable amount of time. New online applications and infrastructures for mobile and ubiquitous use have been installed. This has been done without usage of available PET, although they are favored by data protection experts. Designers of locationbased services (LBS) create infrastructures for business or application specific purposes. They have profitoriented views on the rationale for PET deployment. Finally, users have requirements that might be neither on the PET community’s nor on the business people's agenda. Many disciplines provide knowledge about the construction of community-spanning information systems. The challenge for designers of infrastructures and applications is to find a consensus that models all stakeholders’ interests – and takes advantage all involved community’s knowledge. This paper groups LBS stakeholders into a framework based onto a sociological knowledge construct called “boundary object”. For this purpose, a taxonomical analysis of publications in the stakeholder communities is performed. Then the paper proposes a socio-technical approach. Its goal is to find a suitable privacy design for a LBS infrastructure based on the boundary object. Topics for further interdisciplinary research efforts are identified and proposed for discussion.

Moderation and al-Ghazali in Turkey

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-43
Author(s):  
Taraneh Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Graduate Study ◽  
Intellectual Tradition ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Western Intellectual ◽  
Freedom Of Thought ◽  
Religious Other ◽  
Intellectual Independence

Turkish theology faculties are an important but understudied source of moderate Muslim responses to the challenges of modernity. Although it is strongly associated with questions of such Enlightenment values as tolerance and freedom of thought, modernity is also tied to skepticism, atheism, and pluralism. Thus one way to examine whether the label of “moderate” applies to a given case is to examine how such a position reflects both the positive values of modernity in addition to how it addresses modernity’s challenges. This paper deals with the resources for religious moderation found in the thought of al-Ghazali and how they are used and analyzed in modern Turkish theology faculties. By focusing on two recent works by Turkish theologians Mehmet Bayrakdar and Adnan Aslan, this paper explores skepticism, atheism, and religious pluralism. I argue that not only are both thinkers “moderate,” but that they also engage this label by using their own theological interests and interpretations of al-Ghazali. Both theologians were trained in Turkish theology faculties and did significant graduate study in Europe. Their work reflects an active engagement with the western intellectual tradition. Al-Ghazali plays a crucial – but not final – role in each of their responses to modernity and the western intellectual tradition. For Bayrakdar he functions as a symbol of Muslim intellectual independence, whereas for Aslan he serves as a fundamental resource for making sense of the religious “other.” Thus, a case is presented for the increasing relevance of Turkish theological responses to debates outside Turkey.

After Everything: Western Intellectual History since 1945

1976 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
pp. 850
Author(s):  
George G. Iggers ◽  
Roland N. Stromberg
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Western Intellectual
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