scholarly journals ON DIALOGUES AND EXISTENCES: A POSSIBLE CONTRIBUTION OF ANTHROPOLOGY TO AGROECOLOGY

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Donato da Silva Júnior ◽  
Laura De Biase ◽  
Francisco Martellini
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Political Dynamics ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
Relational Scheme ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Epistemological Basis ◽  
Dynamic Approximation

Abstract We intend to problematize the agroecological “dialogue of knowledge” and survey the conditions of anthropology for such problems. The fundamental argument is that, despite the proposal of non-hierarchical construction of agroecological knowledge (between “scientific” and “non-scientific” knowledge), its epistemological basis does not comprises the complex interactions produced among the agents in question, ambivalently contributing to a hierarchical and asymmetric relationship of power. We suggest that: the idea that agroecology promotes harmonious relations between scientists and farmers simplifies interactions tensioned by the dynamic approximation/estrangement; the conception of culture and cultural diversity implicit in the dialogue of knowledge is based on the dissociation between “thought” and “action”; a “political dynamics of alterity” would better define the agroecological relational scheme; the anthropological conception of translation would contribute to the promotion of a “double extensionality,” not based on the capacity to teach, but rather on the capacity to learn.

scholarly journals Systems analysis – complex interactions of factors that influence the sustainability of access to improved water services in a rural municipality in South Africa

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Calvin Sambo ◽  
Aidan Senzanje ◽  
Mutanga Onisimo
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Rural Livelihoods ◽  
Water Services ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Rural Municipality ◽  
Effect Relationship ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
Limited Budget ◽  
Relationship Of

Abstract Limited understanding of the complex interactions of factors that influence the sustainability of access to improved water services poses a threat to rural livelihoods. The study assessed the complex interactions of the factors using a network approach. The assessment was to understand the complex interaction of the factors resulting from their cause-effect relationship that influence the sustainability of access to improved water services in a rural municipality of South Africa. The results highlighted that limited budget, limited or no water supply and improper operation and maintenance were critical factors resulting from the cause-effect relationship of other factors that influenced the sustainability of access to improved water services in the study area. We conclude that critical factors with a cause-effect relationship can influence the sustainability of access to improved water services. As a result, this deprives rural communities of the benefits derived from accessing improved water services. We recommend the use of the findings by the relevant authorities responsible for water services provision to inform planning, management, policies to address challenges identified to contribute to sustainability of access to improved water services.

scholarly journals Sol T. Plaatje's paremiological quest: a common humanity in cultural diversity

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-165
Author(s):  
Khekheti Makhudu
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Common Humanity ◽  
Literary Expression ◽  
Political Beliefs ◽  
The North ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Having written and compiled from memory, over 700 Setswana proverbs when he was briefly resident in London, around the 1900s, Sol T. Plaatje exhibited unusual ethnographic knowledge and remarkable, creative translation skills in diaspora-like circumstances.  While most literary researchers attest to those achievements, few have been the theories that account sufficiently for Plaatje's multilingual proverb renditions. The view propounded here is that Plaatje's paremiological enterprise was probably never only an exercise of his polyglot abilities. Rather his quest appears to have been to assert the cultural similarities and convergences between African and European people's histories.  His socio-political beliefs propelled deep pride over his Setswana identity and became the driving force for highlighting the human bonds among nations of the North and the South. For Plaatje, seeing the overlaps and equivalences in and through the proverbs of the Dutch, English, French, Germans and the Batswana peoples, firstly validated orality as the bedrock of modern literary expression.  Secondly, the relationship of the two seemed to recapitulate the communicative connections among people and their languages, across time and space. Lastly, the paper makes the point that Plaatje's search for unity in the cultural diversity as exhibited in his 1916 Diane tsa Setswana collection and the 1924 A Sechuana Reader stories, provides instructive lessons that present-day South Africa would ill afford to ignore considering the social cohesion challenges the nation faces.

scholarly journals La relación entre conocimiento común y conocimiento científico en el contexto de la enseñanza, aprendizaje y cambio conceptual de las ciencias

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfonso Claret Zambrano
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Hard Core ◽  
Conceptual Structure ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Previous Knowledge ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This paper analyses the research approach on the relationship between scientificscholar knowledge of the teacher and common previous knowledge of students inschool within the context of teaching, learning and conceptual change in sciences.The paper shows two sections: the first is about conceptual historical development ofthe research question. ln this sense the first question was How the students learnsciences and its transformation into the second, third , fourth and fifth question wasjustified on the light of the reading of the following works, mainly: Piaget, A usubel ,Driver, Vygotsky, and Bachelard, Canguilhem, Kuhn, Lakatos, Popper and othersauthors. The second explains the research question taking into consideration themeaning of the teacher, the pupil and the scientific knowledge in the classroom. Forthis purpose it is necessary to design a conceptual structure in order to analyze therelations, the concepts and the research problems of the teaching, learning andassessment in sciences. The structure shows the relationship of the teacher and thepupilas knowledge relationship. This is the cause why scientific knowledge must beconsidered as the hard core of the science teaching. But scientific knowledge in thiscase is seen as a product of the its historical and epistemological development andthe way as scientific knowledge changes in science is the basis forthinking aboutconceptual change of students in the classroom. The paper ends showing the aimsof the researcher engaged in this approach.

Report: Scientific Knowledge from, for and through Cultural Diversity

2004 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir De Semir ◽  
Gemma Revuelta
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Scientific Knowledge

Effect of science in the relation between firms' technological diversification and innovation performance

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Alessia Donato
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Performance Outcomes ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
The Other ◽  
Technological Diversification ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Patented Inventions

Several studies have analyzed the relationship between the firms’ technological diversification and the innovation performance outcomes. We use information coming from patents portfolio of a sample of firms that operate in a nanotechnology sector and analyze the effect, in this relationship, of the use of scientific knowledge in the development of patented inventions. We find, firstly, that the trend of the quality of innovation with the technological diversification of a firm appears similar to a Gaussian with positive asymmetry. Secondly, we find that with the increase in the percentage of the used science by year, in one side, firms appear to obtain the maximum impact of the innovation, in average, with a less technological diversification in the patent’s portfolio and, in the other side, innovations with more impact are obtained in average.

scholarly journals Phenomenon of Suicide in Russian Stories by V. Nabokov

2020 ◽  
pp. 153-173
Author(s):  
V. Yu. Lebedeva
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Overwhelming Majority ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Christian Culture ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Acute Crisis

The results of the analysis of suicidal issues in the stories of V. Nabokov “Blow of a Wing”, “Fairy Tale”, “Accident”, “Lycus”, “Notification”, “Letter to Russia”, “Vasily Shishkov” are presented in the article. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that it makes it possible to clarify the writer’s ideas about being and the otherworldly, as well as to contribute to the development of such an interdisciplinary branch of scientific knowledge as thanatology. It is argued that the suicidal situations in the stories are similar: the characters take this step in a state of acute crisis as a result of long-term indulgence of weaknesses and passions (including addictions). The problem of the environment is also noted — despite the fact that the heroes are surrounded by people, they are in an atmosphere of misunderstanding and loneliness. Attention is also paid to the relationship of a number of characters with God and infernal forces (in particular, an intertextual parallel with the novel “Demons” is drawn). It is proved that suicide in the overwhelming majority of texts is a consequence of the metaphysical disintegration of heroes prone to irresponsibility, consumerism, escapism, and in some cases to the fight against God. It is concluded that the phenomenon of suicide in Russian-language Nabokov’s stories is devoid of a romantic and / or heroic halo — the writer comprehends it within the framework of European-Christian culture.

scholarly journals The problem of correlalation of scientific and ideological knowledge in modern psychological approaches

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

It is argued in the article that a number of modern psychotherapeutic directions represent in fact scientific-ideologic communities and an attempt is done to demarcate scientific and ideologic knowledge in these psychotherapeutic approaches and to identify the degree of their ideologization. In the course of theoretical and empirical analysis of the relationship of ideology and scientific knowledge in modern psychotherapeutic concepts, it has been shown that the culture conformable and behavioral approaches meet fewer ideological characteristics, indicating a lower level of data ideologized psychotherapeutic approaches.

scholarly journals Sociological scientific activity and strategies for choosing a research topic in theoretical reflections

2021 ◽  
pp. 6-19
Author(s):  
P. Kutuev ◽  
M. Yenin ◽  
J. Zychowicz ◽  
H. Kurovska
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Academic Environment ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Sociological Knowledge ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Scientific Environment

The article outlines the main directions of theoretical discussions on the possibility of objective and value-neutral sociological knowledge and in general, the relationship of scientific knowledge with value positions. The ideas on the connection between the directions of research and the nature of sociological theorizing depending on the position of the sociologist in society and the scientific environment are considered. The article uses ideas of basic and domain preconditions of A. Gouldner, academic field of P. Bourdieu, sociological imagination and directions of sociology according to Ch.R. Mills, the correlation of sociological theorizing with the historical social demand of P. Shtompka and others. to describe the main factors that influence the interest of the sociologist as a researcher. A sociologist, in relation to a particular social phenomenon as an object of study, acts as a researcher and as a participant in this social reality. At the same time, different positions of researchers cause changes in the sociological science itself. This publication describes the concept of the academic environment as a holistic system of elementsThe article outlines the main directions of theoretical discussions on the possibility of objective and value-neutral sociological knowledge and in general, the relationship of scientific knowledge with value positions. The ideas on the connection between the directions of research and the nature of sociological theorizing depending on the position of the sociologist in society and the scientific environment are considered. The article uses ideas of basic and domain preconditions of A. Gouldner, academic field of P. Bourdieu, sociological imagination and directions of sociology according to Ch.R. Mills, the correlation of sociological theorizing with the historical social demand of P. Shtompka and others. to describe the main factors that influence the interest of the sociologist as a researcher. A sociologist, in relation to a particular social phenomenon as an object of study, acts as a researcher and as a participant in this social reality. At the same time, different positions of researchers cause changes in the sociological science itself. This publication describes the concept of the academic environment as a holistic system of elements

CONSERVAÇÃO AMBIENTAL E DIREITOS MULTICULTURAIS: APONTAMENTOS SOBRE DIREITO E CIÊNCIAS

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Betriz Vianna Mendes ◽  
Lúcia Da Costa Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Environmental Rights

From an interdisciplinary approach, focused on human sciences, this work is concerned with action situations that have occurred in protected environmental areas. these action situations do not involve only questions regarding socio- environmental rights and obligations seen from a state juridical point of view – here we are dealing with the superposition of two constitutionally protected domains: environment and cultural diversity. these actions also lead us to reflect on the importance and limits of scientific knowledge, on the positivated rights, and on the state itself as legitimate delineators, capable of defining and managing brazilian public policies, in particular those destined to the protection of the environmental and cultural.

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