THE ROLE OF THE SOCIAL SCIENTIST IN THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

1977 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillip C. Schlechty ◽  
James L. Morrison
Keyword(s):  
Social Scientist ◽  
School Of Education ◽  
The Social

Imagination and Art

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Swedberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Social Scientist ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines the role of imagination and the arts in helping social scientists to theorize well. However deep one's basic knowledge of social theory is, and however many concepts, mechanisms, and theories one knows, unless this knowledge is used in an imaginative way, the result will be dull and noncreative. A good research topic should among other things operate as an analogon—that is, it should be able to set off the theoretical imagination of the social scientist. Then, when a social scientist writes, he or she may want to write in such a way that the reader's theoretical imagination is stirred. Besides imagination, the chapter also discusses the relationship of social theory to art. There are a number of reason for this, including the fact that in modern society, art is perceived as the height of imagination and creativity.

One Role of the Social Scientist in the Courtroom: The Maria Pitchford Case

1979 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-272
Author(s):  
Katherine Van Wormer
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Social Scientist ◽  
Jury Selection ◽  
Recent Trial ◽  
The Social

Sociologists have been involved in various aspects of the criminal justice system. The author examines the role of the sociologist in jury selection. Using as a background her involvement in a recent trial, she discusses the basic strategies involved in selecting a jury.

Social Scientists and the Point IV Program

1950 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 26-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omer Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Social Scientist ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
Agricultural Economics ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Department Of Agriculture ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Farm Population ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sociological Society

The role of the social scientist in the Point IV Program was discussed at a meeting sponsored jointly by the Society for Applied Anthropology and the American Sociological Society, during the Annual Conference of the Sociological Society in Denver, September 8, 1950. Chairman of the meeting was Carl C. Taylor, Head, Division of Farm Population and Rural Life, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, U.S. Department of Agriculture.

ROLE OF THE SOCIAL SCIENTIST

BMJ ◽  
1958 ◽  
Vol 2 (5108) ◽  
pp. 1339-1339
Author(s):  
T. McKeown
Keyword(s):  
Social Scientist ◽  
The Social

The Bureaucratization of Anthropology in AID

1980 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-63
Author(s):  
Peter Benedict
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Scientist ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Targeted Interventions ◽  
External Pressures ◽  
The Social ◽  
Fiscal Austerity ◽  
Intellectual Challenge ◽  
Development Capability

In an AID conferences paper prepared over three years ago ("Social Analysts & Analysis in the Near East Bureau"), there were eventual limits to the successful institutionalization of a social science concern within AID. Since that date, a number of changes affecting the way in which the Agency conducts its business have, I believe, posed new challenges to a relatively nascent social science enterprise. Many changes are a result of external pressures of fiscal austerity which have led to the attrition of needed technical personnel as well as increased difficulties in recruiting qualified talent to maintain an in-house" development capability. Other changes relate to the embeddedness of the foreign aid program within official political foreign policy, a relationship in which one can readily see the primacy of achieving the objectives of promoting short term economic and political stability. This hitter presents an intellectual challenge to the systematic process of analyzing societal change and in designing well-targeted interventions to affect the welfare of the poor. The former poses a familiar problem of how to do more with less—a process which is changing the role of the social scientist from analyst to that of a broker soliciting external skills.

scholarly journals The Nature and Role of Phenomenological Psychology in Alfred Schutz

2008 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lester Embree
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Scientist ◽  
Transcendental Phenomenology ◽  
Phenomenological Psychology ◽  
Subjective Meaning ◽  
Central Task ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural World

AbstractThe essay reviews how phenomenological psychology can draw on Edmund Husserl's transcendental phenomenology in order to clarify the foundations of the cultural sciences and then explicates the theory of this psychology implicit in Schutz's oeuvre.Max Weber has shown that all phenomena of the socio-cultural world originate in social interaction and can be referred to it. According to him, it is the central task of sociology to understand the meaning which the actor bestows on his action (the “subjective meaning” in his terminology). But what is action, what is meaning, and how is the understanding of such meaning by a fellow-man possible, be he a partner of the social interaction, or merely an observer in everyday life, or a social scientist? I submit that any attempt to answer these questions leads immediately to questions with which Husserl was concerned and which he has to a certain extent solved. (Schutz, 1962, p. 145)

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