scholarly journals Crowded Intersections

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 53-64
Author(s):  
Réka Szilárdi ◽  
Márton Tõke
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Historical Aspects ◽  
The Past ◽  
Distinct Features ◽  
The Given

In this paper, we argue for the applicability of current transdisciplinary tendencies in social sciences and the humanities in the case of research topics in which two or more fields are involved. In the past decades, many texts have been produced that discuss the pursuit of scientific activities and scientific production while also highlighting the terminological and historical aspects related to these. Often, polemics emerge on whether the distinctive/distinguished terms truly denote different phenomena, or they are merely empty expressions in vogue now in scientific discourse. This latter approach is most often notable in the case of inter-, cross-, and transdisciplinarity. An observer of these processes has to suffer from the multiplicity of interpretive frameworks behind these views, even though the given definitions, paradigm shifts, and processes seem quite obvious. In order to clarify the state of the field, we review historical approaches to disciplinarity, its modern and post-modern characteristics, while subsequently enumerating the necessary steps of transdisciplinary scientific production. The paper concludes with a case study of a research project, which exemplifies the distinct features of transdisciplinary research.

scholarly journals THE CATEGORY OF IMAGE IN MODERN HUMANITIES: THE PROBLEM AND ITS SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSES

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 70-87
Author(s):  
OLGA PLIASUN
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Primary Interest ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
Scientific Discourses ◽  
The Given

The given article analyzes various approaches to the interpretation of the category of image in modern humanities and social sciences (e.g. politology, economics, culturology, journalism etc.). However, it is stressed that in terms of linguistics the phenomenon of image is insufficiently researched. Thus, the author notes that in linguistic discourse the category of image should be studied within the framework of a new direction of linguistic studies which is currently at the stage of forming – lingvoimageology. The primary interest of lingvoimageology is the study of linguistic mechanisms of image making. The author comes to the conclusion that in modern scientific discourse lingvoimageology is one of the most topical and promising branches of world neolinguistics.

scholarly journals The Institutional Review Board (IRB) and Faculty: Does the IRB Challenge Faculty Professionalism in the Social Sciences?

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenda Musoba ◽  
Stacy Jacob ◽  
Leslie Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Institutional Review Boards ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Mission Creep ◽  
Institutional Review ◽  
The Social ◽  
Faculty Professionalism ◽  
Institutional Reputation

Institutional Review Boards (IRB) were instituted to protect the rights of research participants and due to past (and at times egregious) practices committed in the name of research. We question whether the IRB is currently overstepping its bounds into the domain of the researcher. We illustrate possible ways in which the IRB subtlety and not so subtlety challenge faculty professionalism and limit faculty research independence, highlighting some instances in which qualitative research topics bump up against boards that mistrust or misunderstand the nature of qualitative research. Using case study vignettes from five universities, our concerns focused on mission creep and potentially legitimating censorship. Areas of mission creep can include institutional reputation, methodological design, and chilling/legal language verses accessible language. In addition we consider multisite studies and when committees focus too much on form rather than content.

Spre o Școală rusă de relații internaționale? Trei decenii de dezbateri naționale în context global și regional

Transilvania ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 80-90
Author(s):  
Veronica Onea
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Russian School ◽  
The Past ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
Present Case Study

The aim of this article is to respond to two main questions: is there a link between the major trends within Global IR and the developments of the disciplines of IR on the national and regional levels (in Eastern Europe), and how these major trends are influencing the International Studies in Russia. In this regard, the present case study is a specific one because it clearly shows the post-Soviet evolutions of social sciences, the interconnecting trends within Global IR and the development of national IR, and the identity dilemmas of post-Soviet Russia. From this point onwards, I discuss the leading directions of the past decade’s debates within the Russian academic space regarding the Russian International Studies and the project of the Russian School of IR. The current developments suggest that the maturing Russian discipline of IR and the project of the Russian School of IR are still at the stage of epistemic search.

Globalisation: An Old Phenomenon That Needs to Be Rediscovered for Tourism?

2003 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 306-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk Reiser
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Case Study Area ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Common Concept ◽  
Historical Developments

Globalisation is a common concept in the social sciences; its meaning, however, is contested. Therefore in the first part the paper provides a framework of the term ‘globalisation’ as well as a definition. This definition is then connected with another contested term: ‘tourism’. In the second part, the research methods used to research globalisation and tourism in a case study area, the Otago Peninsula in Dunedin, New Zealand, are outlined. The research methods are linked with specific historical developments in the case study area in the past, the present and the future. The third part gives some preliminary results of the ongoing research project. Of particular interest is the model that links the history of the Otago Peninsula and its environments, tourism and globalisation.

scholarly journals Phrourion: History and Archaeology of a Word

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viviana Lo Monaco
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
The Past

Abstract: Historical and archaeological literature in many cases have named phrouria the ancient Sikel and Sikan towns, which were in contact with the apoikoi from the end of the 8th century B.C. But what is the meaning that the researchers attribute to this word? Is it possible that, in choosing this definition, the interpretations of the dynamics of contact were inevitably filtered through a Hellenocentric view? The purpose of this paper is to analyze different forms in which the noun “phrourion” has been and is still used in scientific production, from ancient textual sources to archaeological literature. It is an invitation to reflect on the agency of words in scientific discourse and to what extent we, scholars of Antiquity, are influenced by the vocabulary of Greek “colonialism” when interpreting material culture and societies from the past.

A spike in the scientific output on social sciences in Vietnam for recent three years: Evidence from bibliometric analysis in Scopus database (2000–2019)

2020 ◽  
pp. 016555152097744
Author(s):  
Binh Pham-Duc ◽  
Trung Tran ◽  
Thao-Phuong-Thi Trinh ◽  
Tien-Trung Nguyen ◽  
Ngoc-Trang Nguyen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Scientific Output ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
Public Research ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Scopus Database ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
Productive Authors

Bibliometric analysis of 3105 publications retrieved from the Scopus database was conducted to evaluate bibliographic content of scientific output on social sciences in Vietnam, for the 2000–2019 period. Our main findings show that the number of publications on social sciences from Vietnam has increased significantly over the last two decades, and there was a spike in the scientific output for the recent three years when the number of publications accounted for 53.76% of the collection. The most productive authors came from a few public research institutes with strong resources as the top 10 institutions participated in 44.22% of the collection. Vietnamese scholars tend not to submit their works to high-ranking journals since five Q1 journals in the top 10 publishing journals published only 6.17% of the collection. For international collaboration, Australia and the United States ranked first and second based on the number of publications and citations. Other countries in top 10 mostly located in Europe and Asia. Research topics were diverse focusing on gender, poverty, HIV, higher education and sustainable development. We suggest that supporting policies and funding need to be provided to help Vietnamese scholars improve their works, and to boost their scientific production in the future.

More than representation

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 83-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver J. T. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Critical Issue ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
Assemblage Theory ◽  
Significant Challenge ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

In this article I examine how Deleuzian-inspired assemblage theory allows us to offer a new challenge to the enlightenment categories of thought that have dominated archaeological thinking. The history of archaeological thought, whilst superficially a series of paradigm shifts, can be retold as arguments constructed within distinctions between ideas and materials, present and past, and culture and nature. At the heart of all of these has been the critical issue of representation, of how the gap between people and the world can be bridged. In the last decade or so, however, archaeologists have begun to make a more significant challenge to these ideas, and have attempted to offer a critique of our enlightenment heritage that is ontologically, rather than epistemologically, inspired. Drawing on the manner in which assemblages allow for the vibrancy of matter, are non-anthropocentric, multiscalar and more-than-representational, this article argues that Deleuzian thought offers the best chance to rework our understanding of the past in this manner. This is explored through a case study of three scales of analysis of Neolithic Britain.

From hard to soft: theory and Neolithic studies in Scotland

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 7-19
Author(s):  
Kenneth Brophy
Keyword(s):  
The Past

The Scottish Theoretical Archaeology Group (STAG) conference organisers expressed some doubts about how far theory has changed, and impacted, archaeological establishment and academia in Scotland. In this paper, I will argue that Scotland is certainly not isolated in a theoretical sense, although in the past, Scottish archaeology could be accused of being theoretically conservative, or at least dependent on ideas and models developed elsewhere. A case-study looking at Neolithic studies will be used to illustrate that despite some recent critical historiographies of the study of the period in Scotland, archaeologists in Scotland and those working with Scottish material have been theoretically innovative and in step with wider paradigm changes. The study of the Neolithic in Scotland, it could be argued, has been shaped by theory more than the study of any other period; we are not isolated, but rather part of wider networks of discourse.

Chakras and Endocrine Glands

2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-25
Author(s):  
Andrea Jain
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Endocrine Glands ◽  
Subtle Body ◽  
Modern Yoga ◽  
Unique System ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

This paper is an exploration of preksha dhyana as a case study of modern yoga. Preksha is a system of yoga and meditation introduced by Acarya Mahaprajna of the Jain Svetambara Terapanth in the late twentieth century. I argue that preksha is an attempt to join the newly emerging transnational yoga market whereby yoga has become a practice oriented around the attainment of physical health and psychological well-being. I will evaluate the ways in which Mahaprajna appropriates scientific discourse and in so doing constructs a new and unique system of Jain modern yoga. In particular, I evaluate the appropriation of physical and meditative techniques from ancient yoga systems in addition to the explanation of yoga metaphysics by means of biomedical discourse. I will demonstrate how, in Mahaprajna’s preksha system, the metaphysical subtle body becomes somaticized. In other words, Mahaprajna uses the bio-medical understanding of physiology to locate and identify the functions of metaphysical subtle body parts and processes in the physiological body.

From Fieldwork to Research Theory on an Indian Pilgrimage

2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rémy Delage
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
South India ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Reading ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Research Hypothesis ◽  
Sources Of Knowledge ◽  
The One

Using as the example of the pilgrimage to Sabarimala (Kerala, South India), I propose here to explore the links existing between sources, research hypothesis and research theory in social sciences. The choice of research materials in the process of investigation, sources of knowledge about the studied object, is not mere random sampling; it is processed in accordance with the questions of the researcher. It inevitably assumes a selective dimension. After a critical reading of the sources used by Indian studies, I will highlight on the connections between the sources and the methodological tools on the one hand, and the major research hypothesis about pilgrimage on the other. The links between the data taken from the field and the legitimacy of scientific discourse on India will be examined at the end before providing some keys for the interpretation of Sabarimala phenomenon in South India during the contemporary period.

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