Proclaiming the New: An Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 107780042093912
Author(s):  
Aaron M. Kuntz ◽  
Elizabeth Adams St.Pierre
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
To Come

This introduction to a special issue of Qualitative Inquiry on “new approaches to inquiry” questions the need for preexisting social science research methodologies for inquiry that aspires to produce the “new,” that which is unrecognizable and incomprehensible in the Cartesian onto-epistemological arrangement that enables those methodologies. Quite a few contemporary scholars encouraged by the lure of the new have found “old” philosophies promising in dislodging that dogmatic image of thought and its concepts that weigh us down. Whatever the “new” is, it will be different every time, so the articles in the special issue cannot be models of new approaches to inquiry that can be copied and repeated but, instead, are bursts of intensities that have not yet been rendered ordinary. New inquiry, then, is always not-yet, to-come, a force of pure difference pushing through what has been normalized and stratified as it comes into existence.

Post Qualitative Inquiry, the Refusal of Method, and the Risk of the New

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Adams St. Pierre
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Keynote Lecture ◽  
International Congress ◽  
Research Methodologies

This article is a slight revision of a keynote lecture presented at the 15th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry in Illinois in 2019. It argues that to experiment and create the “new” in post qualitative, post humanist, and other “new” forms of inquiry invented for the 21st century, social science researchers may well need to refuse conventional humanist social science research methodologies created for the problems of previous centuries.

scholarly journals Labor Laid Waste: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Waste Work

2019 ◽  
Vol 95 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Doherty ◽  
Kate Brown
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Labor History ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Material Quality ◽  
Precarious Labor ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractWaste studies brings to labor history a suite of conceptual tools to think about precarious labor, human capital, migration, the material quality of labor in urban and rural infrastructures, and the porosity and interchangeability of workers’ bodies in the toxic environments in which they labor. In this introduction, we explore the conceptual insights that the study of waste offers for the field of labor history, and what, in turn, a focus on labor history affords to social science research on waste. We examine the relationship between surplus populations and surplus materials, the location of waste work at the ambiguous fulcrum of trash and value, and the significance of labor for the understanding of infrastructure.

scholarly journals Post Qualitative Inquiry in an Ontology of Immanence

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. St. Pierre
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Social Theories ◽  
History Of

Because post qualitative inquiry uses an ontology of immanence from poststructuralism as well as transcendental empiricism, it cannot be a social science research methodology with preexisting research methods and research practices a researcher can apply. In fact, it is methodology-free and so refuses the demands of “application.” Recommendations for those interested in post qualitative inquiry include putting methodology aside and, instead, reading widely across philosophy, social theories, and the history of science and social science to find concepts that reorient thinking. Post qualitative inquiry encourages concrete, practical experimentation and the creation of the not yet instead of the repetition of what is.

Why Post Qualitative Inquiry?

2020 ◽  
pp. 107780042093114
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Adams St. Pierre
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Language Representation ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Qualitative Research Methodology

This article explains that post qualitative inquiry is not a pre-existing humanist social science research methodology with research designs, processes, methods, and practices. It cannot be accommodated by nor is it another version of qualitative research methodology. It refuses method and methodology altogether and begins with poststructuralism, its ontology of immanence, and its description of major philosophical concepts including the nature of being and human being, language, representation, knowledge, truth, rationality, and so on. Its goal is not to find and represent something that exists in the empirical world of human lived experience but to re-orient thought to experiment and create new forms of thought and life.

How Religion Comforts the Dying: A Qualitative Inquiry

2009 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn F. Pevey ◽  
Thomas J. Jones ◽  
Annice Yarber
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Life After Death ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Hospice Patients ◽  
Cosmic Order

Although considerable social science research has explored religiosity and death anxiety, and many have theorized that religion comforts the dying, with speculations on the mechanisms by which religion comforts, very little research has asked people who were actually dying to discuss religion. This article reports on answers given by 38 hospice patients to the questions: Is religion a comfort to you? How does religion comfort you? This study found that religion, when it comforted these dying people, did so by offering a relationship to the dying, by giving the hope of life after death, through identifications, and through the assurance of cosmic order. The authors suggest theoretical perspectives accounting for these functions.

Highly cited articles in social sciences: an analytical study

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 (10) ◽  
pp. 5-9
Author(s):  
Namita Mahapatra ◽  
Jyotshna Sahoo
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Authorship Pattern ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Highly Cited Articles ◽  
Highly Cited

Purpose This paper aims at analyzing the distinctive characteristics of highly cited articles (HCAs) in the domain of Social Sciences with respect to chronological growth pattern, productive journals, authorship pattern, prolific authors, top institutions and leading countries, network among institutions and top ranked keywords in social science research. Design/methodology/approach The required data has been retrieved from Scopus indexing database and further refined using various limits like document types, subject coverage and total citations, and finally, 839 articles were selected for detail analysis. A set of bibliometric indicators were used to make a quantitative analysis, whereas VOSviewer software tool was used to visualize the institutional network and keywords mapping of the HCAs. Findings This study revealed that highest number of HCAs (371) were published during the decade 2001–2010. Degree of collaboration, collaborative index and collaborative coefficient were observed to be 0.513, 1.98 and 0.988, respectively. The highly cited papers were emanated from 397 journals, contributed by 1,556 authors from 1,326 institutions placed in 46 countries. Social Science and Medicine was the most productive journal; J. Urry of Lancaster University, UK, was the most influential author; the USA, the UK and Canada are the torchbearers in social science research. The paper entitled “Five misunderstandings about case-study research,” authored by B. Flyvbjerg, published in 2006 in Qualitative Inquiry, received highest 4,730 citations. Originality/value The primary value of this paper lies in extending an understanding of the characteristics of HCAs in the domain of social sciences. It will provide an insight to the researchers to get acquainted with the most influential authors, journals, institutions, countries and major thrust areas of research in social sciences.

scholarly journals Learning from the past and present: social science implications for COVID-19 immunity-based documentation

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Dada ◽  
Heather Battles ◽  
Caitlin Pilbeam ◽  
Bhagteshwar Singh ◽  
Tom Solomon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Disease Outbreaks ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Additional Insight ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
The Past ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
To Come ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractIn responding to the widespread impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries have proposed and implemented documentation policies that confer varying levels of freedoms or restrictions (e.g., ability to travel) based on individuals’ infection status or potential immunity. Most discussions around immunity- or infection-based documentation policies have focused on scientific plausibility, economic benefit, and challenges relating to ethics and equity. As COVID-19 vaccines are rolled out, attention has turned to confirmation of immunity and how documentation such as vaccine certificates or immunity passports can be implemented. However, the contextual inequities and local variabilities interacting with COVID-19 related documentation policies hinder a one-size-fits-all approach. In this Comment, we argue that social science perspectives can and should provide additional insight into these issues, through a diverse range of current and historical examples. This would enable policymakers and researchers to better understand and mitigate current and longer-term differential impacts of COVID-19 immunity-based documentation policies in different contexts. Furthermore, social science research methods can uniquely provide feedback to inform adjustments to policy implementation in real-time and help to document how these policy measures are felt differently across communities, populations, and countries, potentially for years to come. This Comment, updated as of 15 August 2021, combines precedents established in historical disease outbreaks and current experiences with COVID-19 immunity-based documentation policies to highlight valuable lessons and an acute need for further social science research which should inform effective and context-appropriate future public health policy and action.

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