Explorations and reflections: on envisioning the psychosocial clinical programmes at the School of Human Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi, India

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-144
Author(s):  
Honey Oberoi Vahali
Keyword(s):  
Early Years ◽  
Human Studies ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Work History ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
The Past ◽  
Indian Context ◽  
Present Writing ◽  
History Of ◽  
Methodological Practice

In the early years of psychology’s history, creative thinkers in different pockets across the world experimented with innovative ways of envisioning the field of psychological enquiry. Over time, in its pursuit to establish for itself a status akin to that of the ‘natural sciences’, psychology lost links with its introspective beginnings and came to be largely identified as a study of ‘human behavior’ and its effects. Since the last three decades, like other social scientists, psychologists too have gone through much creative tension. As a consequence, marginal but extremely significant bodies of work have pressed for subjective, critical, cultural and non-Eurocentric modes of humanness to be considered as valid domains of psychological enquiry. The endeavour has been to outline the dimensions of a psychological human science which is contextually sensitive, is in line with the spirit of decolonalization of knowledge and which can relate to the intricacies of the human unconscious. The present writing focuses on one such radical exploration in India in the recent past. It concerns itself with the envisioning and setting up of the Psychosocial Clinical programmes at School of Human Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi. The essay includes a brief account of intellectual influences on, and the past work history, of pioneers who imagined the Psychosocial Clinical axis in the Indian context. The writing also focuses on the distinctive features of the Psychosocial Clinical perspective at the School of Human Studies, and on the methodological, practice oriented and pedagogical challenges and considerations in the training of a reflexive psychological practitioner, researcher and thinker.

The Problem

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mats Alvesson ◽  
Yiannis Gabriel ◽  
Roland Paulsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Prestigious Journal ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Academic Researchers ◽  
History Of ◽  
Wide Gap

This chapter introduces ‘the problem’ of meaningless research in the social sciences. Over the past twenty years there has been an enormous growth in research publications, but never before in the history of humanity have so many social scientists written so much to so little effect. Academic research in the social sciences is often inward looking, addressed to small tribes of fellow researchers, and its purpose in what is increasingly a game is that of getting published in a prestigious journal. A wide gap has emerged between the esoteric concerns of social science researchers and the pressing issues facing today’s societies. The chapter critiques the inaccessibility of the language used by academic researchers, and the formulaic qualities of most research papers, fostered by the demands of the publishing game. It calls for a radical move from research for the sake of publishing to research that has something meaningful to say.

scholarly journals Historians, are Archeologists Your Siblings?

1995 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 369-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Vansina
Keyword(s):  
Good Reason ◽  
African History ◽  
Historical Reconstruction ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Archaeological Material ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Difference ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Relative Scarcity

The historian of pre-nineteenth century Africa…cannot get far without the aid of archaeology.Nevertheless, historians have good reason to be cautious about historical generalisations by archaeologists and about their own use of archaeological material…: it would be a rash historian who totally accepted the conclusions of Garlake and Huffman with the same simple-minded trust as I myself accepted the conclusions of Summers and Robinson.In the beginning, historians of Africa put great store by archeology. Was its great time depth not one of the distinctive features of the history of Africa, a condition that cannot be put aside without seriously distorting the flavor of all its history? Did not the relative scarcity and the foreign authorship of most precolonial written records render archeological sources all the more precious? Did not history and archeology both deal with the reconstruction of human societies in the past? Was the difference between them not merely the result of a division of labor based on sources, so that historical reconstruction follows in time and flows from archeological reconstruction? Such considerations explain why the Journal of African History has regularly published regional archeological surveys in order to keep historians up to date.

II. —Decorated Initials in English MSS. from A.D. 900 to 1100

Archaeologia ◽  
1945 ◽  
Vol 91 ◽  
pp. 107-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Wormald
Keyword(s):  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Norman Conquest ◽  
Ample Evidence ◽  
The Past ◽  
Outline Drawing ◽  
History Of ◽  
Norman Invasion ◽  
Do So

A recent beautiful publication by Mr. Mynors of the MSS. in the Cathedral Library at Durham has raised an important point in the history of English illuminated MSS. Up to now there has been a tendency to regard the Norman Conquest as constituting a complete break with the past accompanied by the introduction of a new style of illumination. There is, of course, no doubt that in many spheres of life the Norman occupation of England did do away with many characteristics of Anglo-Saxon England. But this is not the whole story. A change in one department of life does not mean a revolution in another. In the realm of literature, for instance, Professor Chambers has shown that the Conquest did not interrupt the writing and development of vernacular prose. Mr. Mynors's book produces ample evidence to confirm a suspicion long held by some, but not uttered, that much of the ornament used by illuminators of English MSS. during the first fifty years after the Conquest is directly descended from motives in use in England long before the Norman invasion. To Mr. Mynors's evidence from Durham, examples of illuminated MSS. from Canterbury may be added in order to show that the famous outline drawing style of the English MSS. of the tenth and eleventh centuries had healthy descendants in the early years of the twelfth century. The best place to see this continuity is in the illuminated initials of these MSS. In order to do so it is necessary to examine the development of initial ornament in England during the tenth and eleventh centuries.

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Crime and Criminal Justice

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Crime And Criminal Justice ◽  
History Of Crime

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Crime and Criminal Justicebrings together researchers who work on crime and criminal justice in the past with an emphasis on the interaction between history and social sciences. Although working on similar subject matters historians and social scientists are often motivated by different intellectual concerns. Historians seek knowledge about crime and criminal justice to better understand the past. In contrast, social scientists draw on past experiences to build sociological, criminological, or socio-legal knowledge. Nevertheless, researchers from both fields have a shared interest in social theory, in the use of social science techniques for analysis, and in a critical outlook in examining perceptions of the past that shape popular myths and justify criminal justice policies in the present. TheHandbookis intended as a guide for both current researchers and newcomers to orient themselves on key aspects of current research from both fields. TheHandbookincludes thirty-four essays covering theory and methods; forms of crime; crime, gender, and ethnicities; cultural representations of crime; the rise of criminology; law enforcement and policing; law, courts, and criminal justice; and punishment and prisons. The essays concentrate on the Atlantic world, particularly Europe and the United States, during the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. All of the authors situate their topic within the wider historiography.

Exploring the fringes of psychopathology

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-21
Author(s):  
Nicolas Henckes ◽  
Volker Hess ◽  
Marie Reinholdt
Keyword(s):  
Epistemic Uncertainty ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Moral Ambiguity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
History Of ◽  
Shed Light

This special issue of History of the Humane Sciences intends to shed light on a series of psychopathological entities that do not target well defined conditions and experiences, but rather aim at delimiting zones of uncertainty that defy psychopathology’s order of things: mild diagnoses or subthreshold disorders, borderline conditions, culture bound syndromes, or ideas of dimensions and dimensionality. While these categories have come to play an increasingly central role in psychiatric and psychological thinking during the last 50 years, historians and social scientists have had remarkably little to say about how they have been created, what they have been used for, and what kind of realities they have helped to shape. In this introductory article we propose the concept of ‘psychopathological fringes’ to refer to these categories that are located somewhere at the border of psychopathological classifications and refer to zones of conceptual underdetermination. The notion of fringes serves to highlight both the conceptually and the socially marginal nature of the conditions, personal identities, and worlds delimited by these categories. The fringes of psychopathology are zones of vagueness, of epistemic uncertainty, and moral ambiguity. This introduction proposes a first incursion in these zones. It suggests some of the reason why they might have had attracted little interest in the past and why they may be more salient recently. It follows some analytical clues that might help chart a way through it and proposes a map through the collection of articles included in this issue.

Downtown, Uptown, Out of Town

2002 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Borchert ◽  
Susan Borchert
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Residential Patterns ◽  
The Past ◽  
Open Land ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City ◽  
Lincoln Park

In a recent New York Times article, Robert Sharoff reported on “a throwback to the early years of the 20th century when wealthy Chicago families tended to live in such close-in neighborhoods as Prairie Avenue and theGold Coast.” For the past five years, wealthy Chicagoans have been constructing “palatial residences of at least 6,000 square feet” in the Lincoln Park neighborhood a mile and one-half north of the Loop (Sharoff 2000: 36). This “return” of the well-to-do to the city contradicts traditional urban theories on elite residential patterns; the preponderance of these theories projects the upper class universally and continuously seeking the metropolitan fringe for new homes, more and open land, and/or lower density (Burgess 1925; Hoyt 1939; Alonso 1964; Adams 1987; Downs 1981; Luger 1996; Lowry 1960; Hartshorn and Muller 1989; and Knox 1994).These theories, as well as the notion of the recent return of the upper class to the city, mask a long history of continuing elite residence within some cities as well as considerable diversity in upper-class residence patterns and landscapes among cities.

scholarly journals Leonard Hawkes, 6 August 1891 - 29 October 1981

1982 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 125-139
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War I ◽  
Early Years ◽  
World War ◽  
Igneous Petrology ◽  
The Past ◽  
Field Worker ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

Leonard Hawkes, during the past three decades one of the elder statesmen of British geology, was one of the few remaining leaders in the subject who received their training before World War I. A lifelong academic, he devoted his best years to the service of Bedford College in the University of London. A very active field-worker in early years, he became in his time a leading authority on the geology of Iceland, pursuing studies in volcanology, igneous petrology and glaciology. He served as a Secretary of the Geological Society of London for a long period at a critical stage in the history of that Society, and was later on its President. He will be remembered as one of the most amiable of characters in the post World War II scene.

scholarly journals Dismantlement of State Foundations through Substitution of Meanings and Adulteration of Values

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 19-26
Author(s):  
V. V. Chernykh ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Society ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The West ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Truth

One of the most important tasks of a state in defending its sovereignty is to counteract hostile propaganda aimed at imposing a different way of life designed to promote the decay of a traditional society and the loss of its identity. Counteraction to the destruction of state foundations is the protection of historical truth and combat against all kinds of falsifications of the history of the past, present and future of a country. Bringing the goals of the West home to the population of our country, analyzing the methods and means of propaganda brought against us, refuting the facts of falsification and outright attempts at manipulation are an important area of activity of Russian social scientists, and this article is intended to make a certain contribution to solving this problem.

scholarly journals Decolonising Durkheimian Conceptions of the International

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-30
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
The Political ◽  
Emile Durkheim ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
History Of

Over the past 20 years, numerous scholars have called upon social scientists to consider the colonial contexts within which sociology, anthropology and ethnology were institutionalised in Europe and beyond. We explain how historical sociologists and historians of international law, sociology and anthropology can develop a global intellectual history of what we call the ‘sciences of the international’ by paying attention to the political ideas of the Durkheimian school of sociology. We situate the political ideas of the central figures explored in this special issue—Émile Durkheim, Marcel Mauss, Bronisław Malinowski and Alfred Métraux—in their broader context, analysing their convergence and differences. We also reinterpret the calls made by historians of ideas to ‘provincialise Europe’ or move to a ‘global history’, by studying how epistemologies and political imaginaries continued by sociologists and ethnologists after the colonial era related to imperialist ways of thinking.

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