People and Projects

1951 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-38
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Career Guidance ◽  
Social Scientist ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Strategic Intelligence ◽  
Psychological Warfare

The Department of the Air Force has recently established a new social science research agency at Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. This agency, the Human Resources Research Institute, was authorized in July, 1949, and is under the direction of a civilian social scientist, Dr. Raymond V. Bowers, former Executive Director of the Committee on Human Resources, Research and Development Board, Department of Defense. One of three Air Force research agencies in the field of human resources, the Institute has been assigned a broad mission, focussed on the educational, social psychological, and sociological problems of the Air Force. This mission includes research problems of (a) officer education and personnel, (b) military management and manpower utilization, and (c) strategic intelligence and psychological warfare. The research interests of the Institute in these three areas encompass such varied problems of personnel operations as leadership, morale, officer career guidance, manpower utilization, group motivation, organizational analysis and air-base community structure; and such problems of strategic intelligence and psychological warfare operations as relate to the social and psychological vulnerabilities of foreign nations. Being a part of the research and development program of the Air Force, the Institute has Air Force-wide research responsibilities, and is responsible for developing an integrated long-range program to accomplish its mission.

SCHOLARSHIP ABOVE THE VEIL

2004 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-6
Author(s):  
Lawrence D. Bobo ◽  
Michael C. Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Social Scientist ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Critical Scholarship ◽  
Long Life ◽  
The Veil ◽  
Life Work

W. E. B. Du Bois is a figure of legendary stature, with accomplishments that run from the purely academic to the profoundly political. In the Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, we at once memorialize and aim to continuously re-energize one core strand of the great man's life work: namely, Du Bois's legacy as a producer and catalyst for critical scholarship on the global problem of race. As had no other social scientist of his generation when he began, nor any other over his long life course, Du Bois gazed with the most penetrating intensity into what may figuratively be called “the soul” of the problem of race and he saw just how central a role race would play in the future of human affairs far into an unwritten future.

Titanium Aluminides - An Overview

1984 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry A. Lipsitt
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Intermetallic Compounds ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Titanium Aluminide ◽  
Titanium Aluminides ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Engine Testing

The object of this paper is to describe a coordinated research and development program which has been pursued by an Air Force-Industry-University team for more than twelve years. The focus of our attention has been on the development, processing, and engine testing of alloys based on intermetallic compounds, specifically on the aluminides of titanium, iron, and nickel. The titanium aluminides, Ti3Al and TiAl, are the materials with which we have been working the longest and on which development has proceeded the furthest. This Symposium has provided the first opportunity to review the progress of the titanium aluminide development programs sponsored by the Air Force and some of the engine testing efforts undertaken by the engine manufacturers.

scholarly journals Managing Immigration in the 21st Century

2019 ◽  
pp. 583-596
Author(s):  
Barry R. Chiswick
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Social Scientist ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Immigration Policies ◽  
Costs And Benefits

In this chapter, written explicitly for this volume, I share my thoughts on immigration policy. As a social scientist it is appropriate to assess the consequences, the costs and benefits, of alternative immigration policies. The policies that a country adopts regarding immigration, however, should be the outcome of a political process which should be informed by, but not dictated by, social science research....

scholarly journals The Use of Drones in the Spatial Social Sciences

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ola Hall ◽  
Ibrahim Wahab
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Scientist ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Fields Of Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
Good And Evil

Drones are increasingly becoming a ubiquitous feature of society. They are being used for a multiplicity of applications for military, leisure, economic, and academic purposes. Their application in the latter, especially as social science research tools has seen a sharp uptake in the last decade. This has been possible due, largely, to significant developments in computerization and miniaturization which have culminated in safer, cheaper, lighter, and thus more accessible drones for social scientists. Despite their increasingly widespread use, there has not been an adequate reflection on their use in the spatial social sciences. There is need a deeper reflection on their application in these fields of study. Should the drone even be considered a tool in the toolbox of the social scientist? In which fields is it most relevant? Should it be taught as a course in the universities much in the same way that geographic information system (GIS) became mainstream in geography? What are the ethical implications of its application in the spatial social science? This paper is a brief reflection on these questions. We contend that drones are a neutral tool which can be good and evil. They have actual and potential wide applications in academia but can be a tool through which breaches in ethics can be occasioned given their unique abilities to capture data from vantage perspectives. Researchers therefore need to be circumspect in how they deploy this powerful tool which is increasingly becoming mainstream in the social sciences.

LEARNING FROM THE POSITIVE TO REDUCE RURAL POVERTY AND INCREASE SOCIAL JUSTICE: INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATIONS IN AGRICULTURAL AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

2008 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
STEPHEN BIGGS
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Rural Poverty ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
Track Record

SUMMARYThis paper argues that opportunities for reducing poverty, improving social justice, and influencing policy and institutional changes are being missed as a result of not learning enough from situations where positive changes in development indicators have already taken place. After a review of research on monitoring and evaluation (M&E), positive deviance and studies of ‘success' stories, three case studies of positive change are presented. These are the spread of bamboo tubewell irrigation in Bihar, changes in agricultural research and extension policy in Nepal, and the spread of groups and group-based organizations/federations in Nepal. General lessons include: (1) effective institutional innovation is always new and social arena specific, (2) many opportunistic social entrepreneurs are always present in arenas of positive social change, and (3) there is always purposive selection of what to observe, what to measure and what to publicize. Practical implications include: (1) strengthening social science research on understanding change in agricultural and natural resources systems, (2) selecting people for research and development intervention situations based not only on technical competence but also a track record of interest in social justice development principles, and (3) strengthening a broader concepts reflection and learning within current research and development interventions chan is currently practiced. While learning from the positive is a simple idea, it is always challenging to implement as it inevitably questions the histories, past explanations and perceptions of some scientists and development planners, especially those who promote a mainstream, formulaic approach to the design and promotion of best policies and best practices, and a simplistic, non-political/cultural approach to the transfer and scaling out and up of technology and institutional models.

scholarly journals How can we capture the subject’s perspective? An evidence-based approach for the social scientist

2011 ◽  
Vol 50 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 607-655 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saadi Lahlou
Keyword(s):  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Social Scientist ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Psychological State ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
First Person ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
External Observer ◽  
The Social

This paper addresses the methodological gap that impedes the collection of empirical data on subjective experience. It describes a new family of methods for social science research (Subjective Evidence-Based Ethnography: SEBE). The methods are based on: first-person audio-visual recording with a miniature video-camera worn at eye-level (‘subcam’); confronting subjects with these first-person recordings to collect their subjective experience; formulating the findings and discussing the final interpretation with the subjects. These procedures enable subjects to reconstruct and describe their psychological state at the moment of action, especially their goals, by reviewing films of their own activity recorded from their own perspective with subcams. These films provide situated records of actual activity in natural environments, without the need of an external observer. This approach, by providing both detailed records of actual activity and evidence-based accounts of the subject’s own mental processes, supports grounded progress in ethnography, psychology, ergonomics, sociology and the social sciences in general. There are also applications for training and cross-cultural contacts. The techniques are described in sufficient detail for the reader to make use of them. Examples of applications are provided and limitations are discussed.

scholarly journals The Use of Drones in the Spatial Social Sciences

Drones ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 112
Author(s):  
Ola Hall ◽  
Ibrahim Wahab
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Scientist ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
The Social

Drones are increasingly becoming a ubiquitous feature of society. They are being used for a multiplicity of applications for military, leisure, economic, and academic purposes. Their application in academia, especially as social science research tools, has seen a sharp uptake in the last decade. This has been possible due, largely, to significant developments in computerization and miniaturization, which have culminated in safer, cheaper, lighter, and thus more accessible drones for social scientists. Despite their increasingly widespread use, there has not been an adequate reflection on their use in the spatial social sciences. There is need for a deeper reflection on their application in these fields of study. Should the drone even be considered a tool in the toolbox of the social scientist? In which fields is it most relevant? Should it be taught as a course in the social sciences much in the same way that spatially-oriented software packages have become mainstream in institutions of higher learning? What are the ethical implications of its application in spatial social science? This paper is a brief reflection on these questions. We contend that drones are a neutral tool which can be good and evil. They have actual and potentially wide applicability in academia but can be a tool through which breaches in ethics can be occasioned given their unique abilities to capture data from vantage perspectives. Researchers therefore need to be circumspect in how they deploy this powerful tool which is increasingly becoming mainstream in the social sciences.

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