Introduction: Reconciling approaches to intra-individual variation in psycholinguistics and variationist sociolinguistics

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (s2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Bülow ◽  
Simone E. Pfenninger
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Individual Variation ◽  
Current Issue ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Language Variation And Change ◽  
Methodological Innovation ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Variationist Sociolinguistics

Abstract The overall theme of this special issue is intra-individual variation, that is, the observable variation within individuals’ behaviour, which plays an important role in the humanities area as well as in the social sciences. While various fields have recognised the complexity and dynamism of human thought and behaviour, intra-individual variation has received less attention in regard to language acquisition, use and change. Linguistic research so far lacks both empirical and theoretical work that provides detailed information on the occurrence of intra-individual variation, the reasons for its occurrence and its consequences for language development as well as for language variation and change. The current issue brings together two subdisciplines – psycholinguistics and variationist sociolinguistics – in juxtaposing systematic and non-systematic intra-individual variation, thereby attempting to build a cross-fertilisation relationship between two disciplines that have had surprisingly little connection so far. In so doing, we address critical stock-taking, meaningful theorizing and methodological innovation.

scholarly journals Teach a Student to Fish? International Relations Scholars in the Classroom

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (01) ◽  
pp. 214-220
Author(s):  
Nina Srinivasan Rathbun ◽  
Brian C. Rathbun
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Practical Skills ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
The Social

ABSTRACT American higher-education institutions are under increasing pressure to prepare their students with practical skills for the workplace, and the social sciences—including political science—are not immune. Political figures have suggested—sometimes seconded by academics themselves—that research distracts academics from imparting practical skills to undergraduate students. Using a survey of international relations (IR) scholars, this article shows that this is not the case. Those who spend more time on research actually devote more time to policy-relevant research in their courses than more abstract and theoretical work, and they incorporate more contemporary issues. Research seems to encourage academics to teach their students to fish.

scholarly journals T-labs and climate change narratives: Co-researcher qualities in transgressive action–research

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Macintyre ◽  
Tatiana Monroy ◽  
David Coral ◽  
Margarita Zethelius ◽  
Valentina Tassone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Science And Society ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Methodological Innovation ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social

This paper addresses the call for more action-based narratives of grassroot resistance to runaway climate change. At a time when deep changes in society are needed in order to respond to climate change and related sustainability issues, there are calls for greater connectivity between science and society, and for more inclusive and disruptive forms of knowledge creation and engagement. The contention of this paper is that the forces and structures that create a disconnect between science and society must be ‘transgressed’. This paper introduces a concept of Transgressive Action Research as a methodological innovation that enables the co-creation of counter hegemonic pathways towards sustainability. Through the method of the Living Spiral Framework, fieldwork reflexions from the Colombian case study of the international T-Learning project were elicited, uncovering and explicating the transgressive learning qualities needed to respond to climate change. As part of a larger action–research project, this paper combines the arts with the social sciences, demonstrating how the concept of ‘Transgressive Action Research’ can enable co-researchers to engage in disruptive and transformative processes, meeting the need for more radical approaches to addressing the urgent challenges of climate change.

scholarly journals El concepto realimentación y sus significado en el ámbito pedagógico

10.14201/3097 ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felipe Vega Mancera
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Family Therapy ◽  
Educational Theory ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Watt Governor

RESUMEN: Este artículo comprende un estudio minucioso sobre el concepto de realimentación. Se describe su desarrollo histórico, su presencia en diversas disciplinas científicas —en particular en las CC. Sociales—, analizando su influencia en el orden de las ideas y los métodos, lo que le ha llevado a convertirse en una de las principales metáforas científicas de la actualidad. Su incorporación al lenguaje pedagógico, por vía de las corrientes sistémicas y cibernéticas, merece un estudio crítico, en el que se describan los niveles a los que opera, su relación con otros conceptos y procesos, y su posición central en las modernas teorías de la educación; con especial hincapié en las aportaciones del Dr. Sanvisens.SUMMARY: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the concept feedback. From Watt «Governor» (1790) and the initial theoretical work developed by J. Maxwell (1868), including the cybernetics concepts developed in the fifties, in this paper we revise the conceptual influences and the methodological and thecnological applications in different disciplines, with special attention to the Social Sciences field. The feedback concept is related with other concepts such as: The Systems Dynamic's, the Biofeedback thecnics, the sociological systemic models, the family therapy... Thorough discussion is deserved to the application of this concept in the Educational Theory field. Specifically we analyze the contributions made by the humanistic cybernetic proposed by A. Sanvisens.

scholarly journals Farewell to (post)colonialism in Danish-Greenlandic relations? And then again, maybe not…

2018 ◽  
pp. 152-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazimierz Musiał ◽  
Agata Lubowicka
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
The Core ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Post Colonialism

The aim of the article is to investigate the allegedly new relationship between Greenland and Denmark in Danish political and literary discourses relating to Greenland, by approaching it from two different research perspectives – those of political and literary studies. The analysis draws on the theoretical work of Pierre Bourdieu and his concepts of habitus, capitals and dispositions that together create a hegemonic order. It also applies the concept of framing, as operationalised by A. Pluwak, B. Scheufele, W.A. Gamson, and A. Modigliani in the social sciences. The essay is structured according to the core framing tasks: diagnostic, prognostic and motivational, and their confluence with the temporal frames of the 1950s, the 1970s and the period beyond the 1990s. The analysis employs examples from both post-WW2 official documents related to Greenland and produced in or on behalf of Denmark, and from Danish literature about Greenland published in the same time periods.

scholarly journals Images and constructs: can the neural correlates of self be revealed through radiological analysis?

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 117-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley B. Klein
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Neural Correlates ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Right ◽  
Radiological Analysis ◽  
Conceptual Difficulties

In this paper I argue that radiological attempts to elucidate the properties of self -- an endeavor currently popular in the social neurosciences -- are fraught with conceptual difficulties. I first discuss several philosophical criteria that increase the chances we are posing the “right” questions to nature. I then discuss whether these criteria are met when empirical efforts are directed at one of the central constructs in the social sciences – the human self. In particular, I consider whether recent attempts to map the neural correlates of self and its assumed properties using brain scanning technology satisfy the conceptual conditions minimally required to ask well-formed, theoretically satisfying questions of nature. I conclude that much theoretical work remains to be done.

The social life of style1

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Moore
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Social Meaning ◽  
Language Variation And Change ◽  
Essential Information ◽  
The Social ◽  
Variationist Sociolinguistics ◽  
Social Meanings ◽  
Using Data

Variationist sociolinguistics has provided essential information about community-wide patterns of language variation and change. However, as the field has developed, the need to provide coherent explanations for observed correlations has highlighted problems with the conceptualization of style, social meaning and the linguistic variable. Using data from two case studies, this article illustrates how a more nuanced account of stylistic practice provides a richer understanding of the social and cognitive basis of language use. In particular, it is argued that the linguistic analysis of social groups should be driven by the specific social concerns of the groups studied, not by the search for variable ways to ‘say the same thing’. This approach not only enables a fuller account of the social meaning of language features, it demonstrates that social meanings may be encoded at the intersection of components of the grammar (phonology, morphosyntax and discourse), and in more complex ways than has previously been assumed.

scholarly journals Can happiness measures be calibrated?

Synthese ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mats Ingelström ◽  
Willem van der Deijl
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
First Person ◽  
Crucial Aspect ◽  
Evaluation Standards ◽  
Measurement Apparatus ◽  
The Social

AbstractMeasures of happiness are increasingly being used throughout the social sciences. While these measures have attracted numerous types of criticisms, a crucial aspect of these measures has been left largely unexplored—their calibration. Using Eran Tal’s recently developed notion of calibration we argue first that the prospect of continued calibration of happiness measures is crucial for the science of happiness, and second, that continued calibration of happiness measures faces a particular problem—The Two Unknowns Problem. The Two Unknowns Problem relies on the claim that individuals are necessarily a part of the measurement apparatus in first person measures of happiness, and the claim that we have no reason to believe that the evaluation standards people employ are invariant across individuals and time. We argue that calibrating happiness measures therefore involves solving an equation with two unknowns—an individual’s degree of happiness, and their evaluation standards—which is, generally, not possible. Third, we consider two possible escape routes from this problem and we suggest that the most promising route requires yet unexplored empirical and theoretical work on linking happiness to behavioral or neural evidence.

scholarly journals La Alteridad en el Pensamiento Descolonial de Enrique Dussel.

Anduli ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 59-76
Author(s):  
Esteban-Gabriel Sanchez
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Enrique Dussel ◽  
Mature Work

Latin American decolonialism has a prominent place in current criticism of Eurocentrism in the social sciences and humanities. This paper raises the problem of alterity in the decolonial thinking of Enrique Dussel through the hermeneutical exegesis of three main categories: exteriority, living work and victim. The purpose of this research is to determine the continuities and discontinuities of this problem in the theoretical work of the ArgentineMexican philosopher. As our theoreticalmethodological framework, we consider the notions of the de-colonial attitude and the Latin American hermeneuticphilosophical approach to liberation. In the conclusions, we show that the concept of alterity appears in Dussel’s early work associated with Levinasian ethical language. Later, a shift towards an economic-material reflection is evidenced in his mature work as a means to historically understand the oppression and exclusion of peripheral countries.

Complexity, Ecology and the Materiality of Information

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 141-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Smith ◽  
Chris Jenks
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
Complex Structure ◽  
Complex Structures ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Role Of Information

This article contributes to understanding the effect of complexity theory on the social sciences. It analyses the relationships between complex processes of self-organization and the environment or ecology in which these dynamics take place. Two factors are prioritized: the role of information in the formation of complex structure and the development of ‘landscapes’ or topologies of possibility (and impossibility). The authors argue for an ontology that founds both material and informational structures, and for a radical continuity between the general thermodynamics of emergent complex orders, cognitive theory and the complex structures of human thought and culture.

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