Children in the Vanguard of the U.S. Welfare State: A Review of Janet Currie's The Invisible Safety Net and Jane Waldfogel's What Children Need

2007 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 1011-1023 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene Smolensky
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Life Chances ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The U.S

Policy driven social science research intended to influence the future of the U.S. welfare state has, during the past decade, emphasized improving the life-chances of children, particularly children disadvantaged at birth by the socioeconomic status of their parents. This essay samples that literature, discussing in detail the contents and implications of two recent largely synthetic volumes from this genre.

Tsugaru Gaku as Area Studies: Research plasticity and researcher hybridity

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Rausch
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Specific Area ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Area Studies ◽  
The Future ◽  
Social Science Researcher ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Social Scientific

This review essay speaks to the crisis of Area Studies, offering a view from the field in the form of a review of Tsugaru Gaku (Tsugaru Studies) as a specific Area Studies research case. After presenting an overview of the work of social science researchers working in Japan, both foreign and Japanese, the essay turns to major questions articulated in the literature of Area Studies regarding the purpose, character and future of Area Studies. By reviewing the multi-dimensional and combinative implications in the process and dissemination of his own social science research work together with consideration of the work of Japanese social scientists conducting research in rural Japan and publishing in Japanese, the author positions such ‘domestic,’ place-based sociological and anthropological research as a vital contribution to the future of Area Studies. Capitalizing on social scientific research that can contribute to Area Studies research requires a view of the ‘plasticity of research.’ Further, recognition of the ‘hybridity of the Area Studies researcher,’ both as the trained Area Studies specialist as well as a ‘domestic social science researcher’ capable of theory, methodology and analysis, as well as dissemination of Area Studies research originating in a specific place and in a specific language, is vital to the future of Area Studies research.

Research Facilities in Tunisia—Part II

1984 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-34
Author(s):  
Julia Clancy-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Research Facilities

This article is intended to update an earlier one by Michelle Raccagni and John Simmons that appeared in the MESA Bulletin of February 1972 (vol. 6, pp. 30–36). Much of the information contained in it is still valid today, but as might be expected, the continuing emphasis in Tunisia on social science research has resulted in the creation of several new centers and institutes during the past few years.

Introduction

Vaccine Court ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Kirkland
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Vaccine Safety ◽  
Source Document ◽  
Medical Disputes ◽  
Compensation Program ◽  
The U.S

This chapter introduces major themes of the book by placing the U.S. Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (and the court that decides claims, the so-called vaccine court) at the center of recent controversies over vaccine safety. Scholars have long debated whether courts and legal actors can do justice to scientific and medical disputes. The vaccine court and the claims of vaccine injury can help us understand how law can do justice to science and to injured people at the same time. The book is based on six years of legal and social science research through interviews, observations, and primary source document analysis and approaches the vaccine court from a pro-immunization perspective.

The Invention of the Favela

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Licia do Prado Valladares
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
First Century ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Past ◽  
Anthropological Study ◽  
First Time ◽  
Research And Policy

For the first time available in English, Licia do Prado Valladares’s classic anthropological study of Brazil’s vast, densely populated urban living environments reveals how the idea of the favela became an internationally established—and even attractive and exotic—representation of poverty. The study traces how the term “favela” emerged as an analytic category beginning in the mid-1960s, showing how it became the object of immense popular debate and sustained social science research. But the concept of the favela so favored by social scientists is not, Valladares argues, a straightforward reflection of its social reality, and it often obscures more than it reveals. The established representation of favelas undercuts more complex, accurate, and historicized explanations of Brazilian development. It marks and perpetuates favelas as zones of exception rather than as integral to Brazil’s modernization over the past century. And it has had important repercussions for the direction of research and policy affecting the lives of millions of Brazilians. Valladares’s foundational book will be welcomed by all who seek to understand Brazil’s evolution into the twenty-first century.

scholarly journals Conference Report: “Thirty Years of German-Beninese Cooperation in Social Science Research on Benin: Topics, Conclusions, Future Prospects” –Thurnau/Bayreuth, 8–10 March 2012

2012 ◽  
Vol 47 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 187-193
Author(s):  
Jeannett Martin ◽  
Laetitia Wayaffe
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
African Country ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Conference Report ◽  
Science Research ◽  
West African ◽  
African Studies ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
West African Country ◽  
The Past

This report summarizes the contributions and debates from a conference on German–Beninese cooperation in social science research (8–10 March 2012, University of Bayreuth). In drawing on the experiences from more than three decades of social science research on this West African country, it refers to examples from the past and present of African Studies in Germany, as well as describing the potential for German–African cooperation in this field in the future. Aside from this, it raises the question of whether and how social science cooperation is possible given the economic and power disparities. It is argued that cooperation “on equal terms” will not be easy to achieve but must be consistently striven for – personally as well as politically.

scholarly journals A decade of antimicrobial resistance research in social science fields: a scientometric review

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiahui Lu ◽  
Anita Sheldenkar ◽  
May Oo Lwin
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Antimicrobial Resistance ◽  
Social Science ◽  
One Health ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Science Field ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social

Abstract Background Though social sciences are expectedly instrumental in combating antimicrobial resistance (AMR), their research on AMR has been historically lacking. Objectives This study aims to understand the current academic literature on AMR within the social science field by investigating international contributions, emerging topics, influential articles, and prominent outlets, to identify research gaps and future directions. Methods Bibliometric data of 787 peer-reviewed journal articles published in the period of 2010 to 2019 were extracted from the Social Science Citation Index in the Web of Science database. Bibliographic networks of the extracted articles were examined. Results Social science research on AMR has grown rapidly in the past 5 years. While western developed countries contributed the most to the field in the past decade, research within developing regions such as Asia and Africa have increased in the last 2 years. Social sciences have been contributing to AMR research in several different domains from surveillance and risk assessment of AMR, to promotions of appropriate use of antimicrobials in primary care and clinical settings. Though the idea of one health has been incorporated into research on AMR within the medical and microbial science fields, it has not been well recognized by social sciences. Conclusion Social science research on AMR is a new, while rapidly developing, research area that requires continued and intense global efforts from an interdisciplinary and one health approach. Research on social issues surrounding AMR transmissions between human, animal, and environments should be emphasized in the future.

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