scholarly journals The millennial-messianistic movements in social sciences

2007 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-172
Author(s):  
József Gagyi
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
History Of ◽  
Religious Social Movements ◽  
General Aspects ◽  
Phd Thesis ◽  
Anthropological Literature

The study aims at presenting a brief overview of a particular field of research within religious social movements, namely the millennial-messianistic movements. The starting point is the overview of the Hungarian research regarding religion and religious movements. Researchers do not recognize the weight and the importance of the millennial phenomenon. There was no mental-conceptual apparatus in Hungarian for capturing the phenomenon. The Hungarian social research dealt with these religious movements in the context of other important fields (saints) of research, which goes along the millennial movement of 1949 in Satu Mare (Máréfalva), described in my PhD thesis.</p> <p>After presenting the brief history of the researched movements, I turn to the historical, sociological and anthropological literature of millennial movements, and I also present a few general aspects of social movements. Finally, I write about the importance of Victor Turner’s communitas-structure in the understanding of the researched phenomenon

scholarly journals The past and future of the social sciences. A Schumpeterian theory of scientific development?

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 1701-1722
Author(s):  
Stefano Lucarelli ◽  
Alfonso Giuliani ◽  
Hervé Baron
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Scientific Development ◽  
The Past ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Japanese Scholar ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Questions

AbstractThe paper argues that Vergangenheit und Zukunft der Sozialwissenschaften (The Past and Future of the Social Sciences), a contribution not always well understood in the literature, is important to an understanding of Schumpeter’s concept of development as applied to the field of the social sciences. To this end, it addresses three key questions. First, can the book be taken as a starting point to reconstruct a Schumpeterian theory of scientific development? Second, is Vergangenheit und Zukunft merely ‘a brief outline of what first became the Epochen [der Dogmen- und Methodengeschichte] and finally the History of Economic Analysis’, as Elizabeth Boody Schumpeter wrote in her Editor’s Introduction (July 1952) to the latter work (p. XXXII), or should it be read as a complement to Epochen and perhaps the History? Third, is the eminent Japanese scholar Shionoya right to claim that Schumpeter’s work pursued the ambitious goal of developing a ‘comprehensive sociology’?

Religious Social Movements and Economic Welfare in Modern Turkey

2015 ◽  
pp. 257-278
Author(s):  
Cemile Zehra Köroğlu ◽  
Muhammet Ali Köroğlu
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Moral Problems ◽  
History Of ◽  
Religious Social Movements ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Modern Turkey ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
New Social Movement ◽  
Political Economic

In all societies, there have been some movements that point out social, political, economic, ideological, or moral problems or aim at partial or complete change. This chapter discusses the new meanings attributed to the concept of social movements in the postmodern era. A theoretical framework is proposed to understand the nature of social movements since the 1960s and to demonstrate their differences from classical movements. Turkey provides a particularly rich context with high potential for social movements, both with secular and religious aspirations. Religious social movements have shown quite a tense relationship with the state throughout the history of the republic; yet, they have gained power and prosperity through evolving liberal economic policies since the 1980s. Therefore, resource mobilization and new social movement paradigms are used in this chapter to explain Turkey's religious social movements today.

Fifty Years of Economic Research: a Brief History of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research 1938-88

1988 ◽  
Vol 124 ◽  
pp. 36-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kit Jones
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Rockefeller Foundation ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Advisory Panel ◽  
London School ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
London School Of Economics

The National Institute was founded in 1938, after a first initiative by Sir Josiah Stamp in the early 1930s. Stamp, who was the President of the London Midland and Scottish railway, had been connected with a Rockefeller Foundation scheme to provide fellowships in the social sciences; he became convinced that a wider attack was needed on the problem of financing the social sciences in Britain and his objective became the development of a central unit, of British origin, with funds under its own control. This would supplement and replace the help given by the Rockefeller Foundation (then the main source of research funds in the British social sciences) and develop an increasingly large research effort in economics and related subjects. Stamp made known his views and with the support of a number of prominent academics, in particular William Beveridge, Director of the London School of Economics; Henry Clay, Economic Adviser to the Bank of England; and Hubert Henderson, Secretary of the Economic Advisory Panel, began to search for British financial support.

Final Remarks

2020 ◽  
pp. 131-132
Author(s):  
Dariusz Jemielniak
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Sociological Studies

This chapter includes the final remarks about conducting digital social studies. It summarizes the book briefly and encourages to start own independent projects. This monograph has presented the variety of approaches and tools to conduct social research of and through the online world. It explained why the Internet ought to be the subject of sociological studies, and why even traditional social sciences projects ought to include elements of online research. It identified three trends that are strictly connected with the development of communication technology and networks (online transformation of interpersonal relations, crisis of expert knowledge, and the sharing economy). It indicated their importance in many areas, and the need for deep and recurring social science analyses due to the high changeability of the phenomena. It then described the main quantitative approaches, focusing on those that do not require long-term specialist training. It highlighted those qualitative methods that may be used to interpret quantitative research and be a starting point for qualitative analysis. It outlined the possibilities of doing online cultural studies—studying products of Internet culture as a valid method of doing social sciences. Finally, it outlined the ethical considerations that every author of a digital study ought to consider.

Religious Social Movements and Economic Welfare in Modern Turkey

2015 ◽  
pp. 948-969
Author(s):  
Cemile Zehra Köroğlu ◽  
Muhammet Ali Köroğlu
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Moral Problems ◽  
History Of ◽  
Religious Social Movements ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Modern Turkey ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
New Social Movement ◽  
Political Economic

In all societies, there have been some movements that point out social, political, economic, ideological, or moral problems or aim at partial or complete change. This chapter discusses the new meanings attributed to the concept of social movements in the postmodern era. A theoretical framework is proposed to understand the nature of social movements since the 1960s and to demonstrate their differences from classical movements. Turkey provides a particularly rich context with high potential for social movements, both with secular and religious aspirations. Religious social movements have shown quite a tense relationship with the state throughout the history of the republic; yet, they have gained power and prosperity through evolving liberal economic policies since the 1980s. Therefore, resource mobilization and new social movement paradigms are used in this chapter to explain Turkey's religious social movements today.

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