Introduction: Engagement, Accountability and Ethnography in Applied Practice

2007 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 2-3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Austin ◽  
E. Quinn
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Political Structure ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
Ongoing Process ◽  
Global Power ◽  
The Social

This issue of PA contains two sets of articles dealing with anthropological engagement and accountability, and bridges the full spectrum of community involvement from planning initiatives to ethnographic reporting. Anthropologist Diane Austin, editor of the first collection, reminds us that as anthropologists and social science practitioners, we struggle to understand the social, economic, and political structure of societies. We pay attention to local and global power relations and we strive for social justice. At the same time, we are involved in an ongoing process of learning about ourselves and our relationships with others. As the rules of interaction between anthropologists and the communities within which we work change, we must develop new forms of engagement as well as opportunities to practice and reflect upon them.

scholarly journals Putting (social) science in its place(s)

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leandro Rodriguez Medina
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Global Power ◽  
The Social

Book review ofHeilbron, Johan, Sorá, Gustavo, and Boncourt, Thibaud (eds). 2018. The Social and Human Sciences in Global Power Relations. London: Palgrave. 371 pp.ISBN 978-3-319-73298-5Price: €128,39

scholarly journals Socio-Economic Disclosure in Islamic Banking Case Study in Indonesia

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 185
Author(s):  
Atina Shofawati
Keyword(s):  
Community Involvement ◽  
Annual Report ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Corporate Social Performance ◽  
Social Performance ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Islamic Banking ◽  
The Social ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Economic Responsibility

Islamic Banking must give benefit for their stakeholders. Benefit reflects the performance of Islamic Banking which can be seen through their annual reports. One of important information which reflects the performance of Islamic Banking is socio-economicdisclosure. This report gives information about the performance of Islamic Banking which covers social and economic aspects which show the social economic responsibility of Islamic Banking. Socio-economic disclosure indicators have been taken from Corporate Social Performance which are the indicators consist of four parts, namely community involvement; human resources; natural resources and contribution to the environment; contribution to the product or service. This paper uses qualitative method. This research identifies the socioeconomic disclosure from annual report of Islamic Banking in Indonesia, majoring Bank Syariah Mandiri and Bank Muamalat Indonesia. The result of this paper shows that Bank Syariah Mandiri and Bank Muamalat Indonesia conduct social economic responsibility through socio-economic disclosure from annual report of both of the Islamic Banks in 2009.

scholarly journals Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar’s Views on Social Justice: An Appraisal

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 583-589
Author(s):  
Sanjeev Kumar Bragta
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Indian Constitution ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Opportunities ◽  
Diverse Society

Baba Sahib Bhim Rao Ambedkar views on social justice are the very basis of the Indian Constitution. The social justice means providing equal social opportunities to everyone to develop their personalities, associated with equality and social rights. In every state it becomes important to secure a social order based on justice and creating an equal opportunity available to everyone. Mostly, the people are being treated with discrimination in size, color, caste, religion, race in the society because of they are mostly uneducated and from marginalized sections of the society that creates a social disorder and inequality among them. Hence, the need of the social justice is an inevitable and is the only weapon to prosper the people towards their active participation in the development and mainstream of the society. However, it becomes important to establish an egalitarian social, economic and political order in diverse society like India. It’s in this backdrop the article tries to explore the concept of social justice and Ambedkar view on it. How far Ambedkar’s reflection is visible in Indian Constitution and its relevance in the present times.

Understanding the Crisis of Urban Gun Violence

2021 ◽  
pp. 145-181
Author(s):  
Melvin Delgado
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Gun Violence ◽  
Community Level ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Cultural Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Key Aspects

There is a place for a statistical portrait of urban gun violence, particularly when deconstructing how it is manifested at a neighborhood or community level, and this chapter provides it. This portrait provides the backdrop or canvas on which to better place and understand the stories associated with gun violence. Numerous publications provide a statistical portrait of gun violence to further pursue if interested. This chapter highlights key aspects from national and urban perspectives, including subjects that must be a part of any urban gun violence strategy, setting the stage for the introduction of key constructs in the following chapter that influence urban practice, research, and scholarship. This chapter’s statistical portrait is one dimensional but critical in shaping the argument about the saliency of gun violence in the communities served. This picture can best be conceptualized as a backdrop to the social, economic, political, and cultural perspectives, allowing for a more in-depth appreciation for the challenge ahead for those embracing this social justice mission. The narratives embraced to bring this subject to light can use statistics as a backdrop.

scholarly journals The Ideology Behind the Power Relations of Punggawa-Sawi in Bajo Ethnic Fishermen in North Tiworo, West Muna Regency

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Akhmad Marhadi
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Maximum Profit ◽  
The Social

The power relations that arise in the life of Bajo ethnic fishermen are predominantly influenced by the ideology practiced by the superior group, punggawa to control sawi as an inferior group. The purpose of this study is to analyze the ideology behind the power relations of punggawa-sawi in Bajo ethnic fishermen in North Tirowo. The method used was a qualitative approach with data collection techniques namely observation, interview and document study. The results of the study showed that the ideology of power, the ideology of capitalism, and the ideology of religiosity are the ideologyies that cause the existence of power relations of punggawa to sawi. The ideologies are used by punggawa to lead, control and manage the social, economic, political and cultural life of sawi fishermen to get the maximum profit while fulfilling all the interests and desires of punggawa.

scholarly journals About the rights with which we are born: The radical natural law and the social justice from K. Marx up to neoliberalism

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-174
Author(s):  
Todor Kuljic
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Natural Law ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Legal Norm ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The Social ◽  
Hierarchical Position

The natural law is a overempiric law that does not owe his dignity to the legal norm than to the intrinsic qualities of a human being. This paper presents a different hierarchical position of the natural law in the critics of capitalism from K. Marx to our days and its different intonation as a superpositive framework of justice. One should analytically differentiate between (1) theoretical search for social justice in the philosophy of the natural law (K.Marx, M.Weber, G.Radbruch, L.Strauss, E.Bloch, Lj.Tadic) and (2) empirical identification of power relations that allowed or hindered social justice in the reality. The paper provides analysis of historically different relationships between positive and radical natural law in both the compressed 20th century epochal conscience and today?s neoliberal one. In addition, it compares role of the natural law in capitalism and socialism and differentiates between social justice from above and social justice from below. The first one is gratuitous, paternalistic and limited, the second one is radical and has to be conquered. Radical natural law should express itself as a fully developed social justice liberated from capitalism. Critic of social unjustice from the viewpoint of natural law has no practical effects in our days, and in spite of it, it is not anachronistic.

Social Justice and Career Development: Views and Experiences of Australian Career Development Practitioners

2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 15-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary McMahon ◽  
Nancy Arthur ◽  
Sandra Collins
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Career Development ◽  
Critical Incidents ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Environmental Context ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
The Social ◽  
Development Practice

Career development practice had its origins in social justice reform over 100 years ago. A social justice perspective requires practitioners to examine the environmental context of their work, including the social, economic and political systems that influence people's career development. Achieving socially just outcomes for clients may necessitate intervention in these systems. While social justice is receiving a resurgence of interest in the literature, little is known about career development practitioners' attitudes towards and knowledge of socially just practice. The present paper examines the views and experiences of Australian career development practitioners on social justice. Data was collected by means of an online survey. Participants offered descriptions of their understanding of social justice and also examples of critical incidents in which they had attempted social justice interventions. Findings related to how Australian career development practitioners describe and operationalise social justice in their work are presented, as well as recommendations for future research.

Research Facilities in Turkey

1975 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-29
Author(s):  
Frank Tachau
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Social ◽  
Trained Personnel ◽  
Research Facilities

In a report on the climate for social science research in Turkey published some seven years ago, Edwin J. Cohn noted that there had been a considerable intensification of interest and activity in the social sciences in Turkey, spurred both by the training of Turkish social scientists and by the increased interest of European and American scholars in Turkish experience with rapid social, economic, and political change. At the same time, Cohn reported, “the climate for research, especially research by Americans, has deteriorated…” This assessment remains basically accurate. Of course, in the intervening years, there have been further developments. Two in particular will be dealt with here: continued increase in institutions, facilities, and trained personnel on the Turkish side; and greater formalization of official rules governing the conduct of research by foreigners.

scholarly journals SOCIAL SCIENCE STUDENT TEACHERS’ AWARENESS OF THE INTERTWINESS OF SOCIAL SCIENCE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE IN MULTICULTURAL SCHOOL SETTINGS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Titus Williams ◽  
◽  
Gregory Alexander ◽  
Wendy Setlalentoa ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Science ◽  
South African ◽  
Science Curriculum ◽  
Social Justice Education ◽  
Education Students ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Science Education ◽  
The Subject

This qualitative study is an exploration of final year Social Science education students awareness of the intertwined nature of Social Science as a subject and the role of social justice in the classroom of a democratic South Africa. This study finds that South African Social Science teachers interpret or experience the teaching of Social Science in various ways. In the South African transitional justice environment, Social Science education had to take into account the legacies of the apartheid-era schooling system and the official history narrative that contributed to conflict in South Africa. Throughout the world, issues of social justice and equity are becoming a significant part of everyday discourse in education and some of these themes are part of the Social Science curriculum. Through a qualitative research methodology, data was gathered from Focus Group Discussion (FGD) sessions with three groups of five teacher education students in two of the groups and the third having ten participants from the same race, in their final year, specializing in Social Science teaching. The data obtained were categorised and analysed in terms of the student teacher’s awareness of the intertwined nature of Social Science and social justice education. The results of the study have revealed that participants had a penchant for the subject Social Science because it assisted them to have a better understanding of social justice and the unequal society they live in; an awareness of social ills, and the challenges of people. Participants identified social justice characteristics within Social Science and relate to some extent while they were teaching the subject, certain themes within the Social Science curriculum. Findings suggest that the subject Social Science provides a perspective as to why social injustice and inequality are so prevalent in South Africa and in some parts of the world. Social Science content in its current form and South African context, emanates from events and activities that took place in communities and in the broader society, thus the linkage to social justice education. This study recommends different approaches to infuse social justice considerations Social Science; one being an empathetic approach – introducing activities to assist learners in viewing an issue from someone else’s perspective, particularly when issues of prejudice or discrimination against a particular group arise, or if the issue is remote from learners’ lives.

scholarly journals Importing American racial reasoning to social science research in Sweden

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (3–4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Voyer ◽  
Anna Lund
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Ethnic Difference ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Racial Categories ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

How does one research racial categorizations and exclusion while remaining sensitive to context? How does one engage the social reality of racial categorizations and the history of racialized exclusions without falling into the trap of race essentialism? These concerns prompt debate about, and also resistance to, examining race in Swedish social science. In this article, Voyer and Lund offer American racial reasoning as one possible approach to researching race in the Swedish context. American racial reasoning means being attentive to how power and the processes of social inequality operate through categories of racial and ethnic difference, and also seeing the path to greater equality in the embrace of those categories. American racial reasoning is a valuable research tool that uncovers dynamics of social inequality and possibilities for social justice that are otherwise difficult to grasp. Taking up the topic of immigration in Sweden, Voyer and Lund demonstrate the analytical value of American racial reasoning for understanding persistent social inequality and exclusion even when explicit racial categories are not in wide use in everyday life.

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