scholarly journals Descolonización del Conocimiento y Pensamiento Andaluz Descolonial.

Anduli ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 289-312
Author(s):  
Javier García-Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Intellectual Tradition ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
Decolonial Theory ◽  
Intellectual Traditions

The aim of this contribution is to recapitulate the scenario of Andalusian studies and Andalusian intellectual traditions from the early tradition of social sciences to Andalusian decolonial theory. The methodology used is a comprehensive review of all the currents of Andalusian critical thinking of the last two centuries to connect Andalusian critical theory with the theoretical proposals of the decolonial shift. It is concluded that Andalusian decolonial thinking is the legacy of the Andalusian intellectual tradition of the last two centuries.

The endurance of critique

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Didier Fassin
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Critical Sociology ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

Critique in the humanities and the social sciences has recently been under attack and even declared lifeless. Considering the report of its death to be an exaggeration but acknowledging that one should never let a good crisis go to waste, I propose a reflection on the challenges faced by the practice of critical thinking in anthropology based on my own research on AIDS in South Africa, trauma among Palestinians, and policing and punishment in France, while resituating the questions it raises in a broader history of the discipline. More specifically, I discuss two major strands, genealogical critique and critical theory, suggesting how they may be combined, and two opposed views, critical sociology and the sociology of critique, showing that ethnography can surmount their supposed irreconcilability. Affirming that critique, under its multiple forms, is inherent to the anthropological project, I contend that it is more than ever needed in times laden with worrying spectres.

scholarly journals The Roles of Technology and Digital Literacy for Global Education

2020 ◽  
pp. 14-22
Author(s):  
Dorota Horvath
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Global Education ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Senior Population ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Media Manipulation

This chapter considers the critical theory, media literacy, and stresses sustained collaboration and the transnational exchange of critical thinking practices for digital literacy in global education. Media literacy represents a multidisciplinary category that integrates the knowledge of a broader spectrum of social sciences and is the subject of ICT, journalism, psychology, sociology, pedagogy, and, to a lesser extent, requires the attention of institutions and governmental policies. It is important to raise awareness about media manipulation and spreading disinformation and consequently foster mutual understanding among various communities while targeting young and also senior population.

The Politics of Global Health Inequalities

2019 ◽  
pp. 58-84
Author(s):  
Yusra Ribhi Shawar ◽  
Jennifer Prah Ruger
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Health Inequalities ◽  
Health Inequality ◽  
The Political ◽  
State Of Health ◽  
Political Determinants ◽  
The Social

Careful investigations of the political determinants of health that include the role of power in health inequalities—systematic differences in health achievements among different population groups—are increasing but remain inadequate. Historically, much of the research examining health inequalities has been influenced by biomedical perspectives and focused, as such, on ‘downstream’ factors. More recently, there has been greater recognition of more ‘distal’ and ‘upstream’ drivers of health inequalities, including the impacts of power as expressed by actors, as well as embedded in societal structures, institutions, and processes. The goal of this chapter is to examine how power has been conceptualised and analysed to date in relation to health inequalities. After reviewing the state of health inequality scholarship and the emerging interest in studying power in global health, the chapter presents varied conceptualisations of power and how they are used in the literature to understand health inequalities. The chapter highlights the particular disciplinary influences in studying power across the social sciences, including anthropology, political science, and sociology, as well as cross-cutting perspectives such as critical theory and health capability. It concludes by highlighting strengths and limitations of the existing research in this area and discussing power conceptualisations and frameworks that so far have been underused in health inequalities research. This includes potential areas for future inquiry and approaches that may expand the study of as well as action on addressing health inequality.

scholarly journals Situational map: A strategy to develop critical thinking in the teaching of scientific research

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecilia Alejandra Marambio Carrasco ◽  
Carla Lobos Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Scientific Problem ◽  
Support Students ◽  
Thesis Work

The objective of the study is to support students in the rational, logical, and analytical process that they perform when faced with a scientific problem. This study uses qualitative methodology as its purpose is to present the strategy as learning stemming from the process of analysis, which is rooted on how to detect scientifically the research problem in the field of social sciences. A statistical analysis is made on the use and application of the diagram in a sample of 27 undergraduate students who have used the situational map in the elaboration of their theses. The trend shows that 92.6% of respondents achieved concluding their research processes of thesis work, at the planned time, and their results were consistent with their hypothesis and/or purposes. The creation of this strategy is a support for students, who have not developed their ability to think critically and establish relationships between concepts and theories in the execution of scientific research.

The Social Sciences as Critical Theory

1990 ◽  
Vol 36 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Everton Pryce
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
The Social

Lifeworlds and Living Words

Social Change ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ananta Kumar Giri
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Edmund Husserl ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Intellectual Tradition ◽  
Mahatma Gandhi ◽  
New Words ◽  
Spiritual Dimension ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
Sri Aurobindo

Lifeworld is a multi-dimensional concept and reality in philosophy, social sciences and in our practice of living. The present essay explores its different meanings and interpretations starting from Edmund Husserl to Jurgen Habermas in the European intellectual tradition and Sri Aurobindo, Mahatma Gandhi, J.N. Mohanty and Margaret Chatterjee in the Indic traditions. It rethinks the Habermasian idea of colonisation of the lifeworld and argues how we need Gandhian struggles for overcoming this. It argues how lifeworld is a field of satyagraha as it exists in the midst of Sattva, Rajas and Tamas. It also argues how lifeworld is a field of lokasangraha—a gathering of people which is also related to atmasangraha—a gathering of souls. With and beyond Habermas, it argues that lifeworld is not only a field of reason but also of intuition and striving for the spiritual in the midst of many rational and infra-rational forces at work in self, culture and society. The essay then links the challenges of lifeworlds to the challenge of living words in our lives—words which give birth to new words and worlds going beyond stasis, stagnation and death of language, culture, self and society. Lifeworld is a field and flow of living worlds which have both a pragmatic and a spiritual dimension. The essay explores the border crossing between pragmatism and society and looks at lifeworlds and living words as fields of spiritual pragmatism.

scholarly journals Etienne Balibar in Conversation: Revisiting European Marxism

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 231-247
Author(s):  
Charles Barthold
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
French Theory

In this interview, Balibar provides a number of reflections on the articulation of different Marxist traditions, including Italian Marxism and the Neue Marx Lektüre, to his own Althusserian position. Similarly, he comments on his relationship to the readings of French theory upon Marx’s oeuvre. He further develops an analysis of the contemporary challenges posed by capitalism – and its different crises – to critical theory, social sciences and social movements. Then, he argues that financialization and the Anthropocene are central issues. He concludes with thoughts on internationalism and citizenship, which he believes to be indispensable political elements in order to conceptualize resistance in this crisis context.

Reflexivity and International Relations

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inanna Hamati-Ataya
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Science Studies ◽  
Ethical Problem ◽  
Research Process ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Intellectual Traditions ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
Sociological Studies

Reflexivity has in the past few decades become a core concept and concern in the social sciences and has increasingly shaped (meta) theoretical debates in the field of International Relations (IR) since the 1980s. While there is no single understanding of what reflexivity (sometimes referred to as reflectivity or self-reflexivity) means or entails, a broad consensus identifies reflexivity as the capacity to reflect on one’s own epistemic situation and process, and how these affect the nature and meaning of the knowledge one produces. As such, there are different strands of reflexive or reflexivist scholarship in IR, based on how these different elements are envisaged and addressed. Expanding beyond mere “control against bias,” which was a core concern of American behavioralist scholars in the 1950s, reflexivity has turned from a standard for the pursuit of “objective” knowledge to a problematization of, and response to, the historicity and social-situatedness of knowledge. Discussions of reflexivity in IR are thus typically generated within self-labelled post-positivist intellectual traditions, wherein reflexivity becomes a fundamental epistemological, methodological, and/or ethical problem that requires constant engagement as an integral part of the research process, and that also affects other aspects of the scholarly vocation and practice, including pedagogy and public engagement. Within this broad literature, this annotated bibliography will cover works that have contributed to clarifying and promoting reflexivity as a metatheoretical standard for IR (i.e., reflexivity as a core question for epistemology, ontology, methodology, and ethics), but also works that have contributed to an empirical understanding of IR’s historical and social embeddedness. The reason for including the latter within reflexivist IR—in the broad sense of the term—despite the fact that many authors of such works have not necessarily self-identified as reflexivists, is that they in effect provide an important empirical basis upon which the problematization and clarification of the problem of reflexivity become possible in philosophical and praxical terms. Indeed, in most social sciences such empirical investigation of the embeddedness of knowledge within social structures and orders is provided by historiographical and sociological studies on the sociohistorical conditions of the “production” or “constitution” of knowledge. But IR scholars have in the past few decades developed an in-house historiographical and “science studies” agenda that has increased the whole community’s understanding of the specific sociopolitical and institutional contexts and factors that shape its nature and evolution. The two literatures are therefore conceptually and practically connected, and together contribute to whatever level of reflexivity IR as a field can now be said to enjoy.

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