scholarly journals Hydrogen research: technology first, society second?

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-86
Author(s):  
Frederic Hanusch ◽  
Miriam Schad
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Interdisciplinary Studies ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Energy Research ◽  
Research Technology ◽  
Path Dependencies ◽  
The Social ◽  
To Come ◽  
Energy Plants ◽  
Renewable Energy Plants

Hydrogen futures are in the making right in front of our eyes and will determine socio-ecological path dependencies for decades to come. However, expertise on the societal effects of the hydrogen transition is in its infancy. Future energy research needs to include the social sciences, humanities and interdisciplinary studies: energy cultures have to be examined as well as power relations and anticipation processes since the need for (green) hydrogen is likely to require a massive expansion of renewable energy plants.

Reconsidering American Power

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
American Power ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The Social ◽  
State Sponsorship ◽  
To Come

Postcolonial studies, postmodern studies, even posthuman studies emerge, and intellectuals demand that social sciences be remade to address fundamentals of the human condition, from human rights to global environmental crises. Since these fields owe so much to American state sponsorship, is it easier to reimagine the human and the modern than to properly measure the pervasive American influence? Reconsidering American Power offers trenchant studies by renowned scholars who reassess the role of the social sciences in the construction and upkeep of the Pax Americana and the influence of Pax Americana on the social sciences. With the thematic image for this enterprise as the ‘fiery hunt’ for Ahab’s whale, the contributors pursue realities behind the theories, and reconsider the real origins and motives of their fields with an eye on what will deter or repurpose the ‘fiery hunts’ to come, by offering a critical insider’s view.

scholarly journals Energy research and social sciences: thinking outside the box

2021 ◽  
Vol 250 ◽  
pp. 07001
Author(s):  
Wadim Strielkowski
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Social Scientist ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Energy Research ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face

This paper aims at explaining the universality and broadness of the research in energy studies. Specifically, it wants to show that the energy research is not a solely engineering or natural sciences field and how it can be done in social sciences. The paper draws some relevant examples including energy research in literature and poetry, history, religion, art, as well in other social sciences and humanities. In general, it becomes apparent that energy research can boast vast depths and angles that are worth exploring for any social scientist. Given the key importance of energy research in the third decade of the 21st century and the worldwide focus on the renewable energy sources, electrification of transport and heating in the face of the threatening global warming and climate change, it seems relevant to focus on researching the perspectives and paradigms for the traditional and renewable energy sources in the 21st century using the toolbox of the social sciences.

THE EDUCATIONAL CONTEXTS OF ISLAMIST ACTIVISM: ELITE STUDENTS AND RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS IN EGYPT*

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Ketchley ◽  
Michael Biggs
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
General Pattern ◽  
Student Activism ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
To Come ◽  
Secular Institutions

The literature on student activism finds that protesters come from prestigious universities and from the social sciences and humanities. Studies of political Islam, however, emphasize the prominence of engineering and medical students from secular institutions. Contributing to both literatures, this paper investigates Islamist students targeted by security forces in Egypt following the coup of 2013. Matching 1,352 arrested students to the population of male undergraduates, it analyzes how the arrest rate varied across 348 university faculties. We find that activists came disproportionately from institutions that provided a religiously inflected education. This contradicts the conventional emphasis on secular institutions. Most importantly, we find that Islamists tended to come from faculties that required higher grades and that admitted students who studied science in secondary school. Controlling for grades, engineering and medicine were not especially prominent. These findings suggest that Islamist students conform to the more general pattern: political activism attracts the academic elite.

scholarly journals ’n Verkennende studie met die oog op die identifisering en kategorisering van leerteorieë met verwysing na die prediking

1994 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
C. M. Van den Berg ◽  
T. F.J. Dreyer
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Other ◽  
Creative Problem Solving ◽  
The Social ◽  
Creative Problem ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Church

An introductory study to identify and classify theories of learning with regard to the task of preaching Learning is a lifelong process in which man must be what he can be, namely a being interacting with his world in a creative problem-solving manner for the well-being of himself and others. In a similar sense the church has always seen her task in preaching, supported by all the other domains of churchlife, as that of teaching people to come to terms with the gospel of Jesus Christ in their daily existence. This article proposes to identify, categorize and integrate the acknowledged theories underlying the learning process, as they exist in the social sciences, into an allencompassing model for learning; a model from which conclusions are drawn in the hope that further studies can spell out the implications of these conclusions as they are applicable to the task of preaching within the church.

scholarly journals How to Manage the Cop21 Policies?

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Jan-Erik Lane
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Positive Feedback ◽  
Abrupt Climate Change ◽  
Overwhelming Evidence ◽  
The Social ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
To Come

While the climate and earth scientists now launch the new theory of abrupt climate change with overwhelming evidence about CO2s and the positive feedback lopes from Arctic meltdown and methane emissions from permafrost, the UNFCCC does not speed up the implementation of its promised policies. The social sciences have yet to come up with management plans for global decarbonisation. Resilience is no longer an option when the tipping point is muck closer in time than earlier believed. The key nations are not taking steps towards the saving of mankind from run away global warming.

“Life Begins When They Steal Your Bicycle”: Cross-Cultural Practices of Personhood at the Beginnings and Ends of Life

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn M. Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
American Policy ◽  
To Come

A friend once told me I was wasting my time writing about cross-cultural perspectives on the beginnings of life. “Your work is interesting for its curiosity value,” he said, “but fundamentally worthless. What happens in other cultures is totally irrelevant to what is happening here.” Those were discouraging words, but as I followed the American debates about the beginnings and ends of life, it seemed he was right. Anthropologists have written a great deal about birth and death rites in other societies and about non-western notions of personhood, but to date our findings have had little impact on American policy, ethics, or law. The recognized experts on contentious topics such as abortion and euthanasia tend to come from the fields of philosophy, bioethics, theology, law, and biology, but rarely from the social sciences. I was a bit surprised, therefore, to be invited to address the Thomas A. Pitts Memorial Lectureship on “Defining the Beginning and the End of Human Life.”

scholarly journals Современные концепции безопасности и их значение для теории государства и права

2021 ◽  
pp. 39-50
Author(s):  
Denis V. Iroshnikov
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Interdisciplinary Studies ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Political Sciences ◽  
Science Theory ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
New Space ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
Theoretical Science

Security is an interdisciplinary scientific category with deep potential for study by philosophers, political scientists, and other representatives of the social sciences. Security issues are also linked with the science “Theory of State and Law”, which studies the general principles of the emergence, evolution, functioning and interaction of state and law. At the same time, the concepts (schools) of security existing in the world, while remaining widely studied in political sciences, have not yet been studied by the theoretical science of state and law. The aim of the article is analysis of the basic concepts of security through the prism of the science “Theory of State and Law”, which will enrich the science with new theoretical and methodological material, opening new space for interdisciplinary studies of security from the standpoint of legal and political sciences.

Beyond Language

10.52769/bl ◽  
2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Nobel Laureate ◽  
Interdisciplinary Studies ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Intended Audience ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
World Class ◽  
To Come ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Adam Mickiewicz

The Beyond Language (BL) series is tailored to a tenured, established demographic and driven by professor Piotr Chruszczewski – a vibrant dynamo targeting similarly fresh minds. BL’s intended audience includes authorities of their fields and academia types of present and future generations who will reference these books for years to come – researchers and scholars in every discipline, extending the path of their Nobel laureate predecessors – grounded with one foot in centuries of world class contributions, and the other in cutting edge research and innovation. Beyond Language opens the world’s shipping lanes to future field discoveries. The series is published under the auspices of College for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Wrocław, Poland, in cooperation with College for International Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, with Faculty of History, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and the Committee for Philology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Wrocław Branch, Poland.

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