Social conditions of production of knowledge, the exclusive we (ore), and the possibilities of the development of the scientific community in social sciences in Paraguay

Abstract Objective: To present a theoretical reflection about the origin and the assumptions of the "Interpretive Description" method, and to discuss its applicability in Nursing and Health research. Method: Theoretical-reflective study, based on articles and books published by proponent of this approach, as well as scientific articles in which the authors reported having used this method in their studies. Results: It was evidenced that the "Interpretive Description" arose from the need to generate a better understanding of clinical practices in Nursing. This approach has its roots in the methodological traditions of the Social Sciences, although it differs from them in terms of its excessive rigidity and essentially theoretical objectives. The proposed method has been applied in several studies either in Nursing as other areas of Health. Conclusion: The "Interpretive Description" is considered a feasible approach for the production of knowledge in Applied Sciences such as Nursing.

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Pragmatisme og "practice turn"

Slagmark - Tidsskrift for idéhistorie ◽

10.7146/sl.v0i64.104110 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 43-61

Author(s):

Antje Gimmler

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

John Dewey ◽

Social Scientist ◽

The Other ◽

Production Of Knowledge ◽

The Social ◽

Practice Turn ◽

Understanding Of Science ◽

The One ◽

Philosophical Pragmatism

Practices are of central relevance both to philosophical pragmatism and to the recent ‘Practice Turn’ in social sciences and philosophy. However, what counts as practices and how practices and knowledge are combined or intertwine varies in the different approaches of pragmatism and those theories that are covered by the umbrella term ‘Practice Turn’. The paper tries to show that the pragmatism of John Dewey is able to offer both a more precise and a more radical understanding of practices than the recent ‘Practice Turn’ allows for. The paper on the one hand highlights what pragmatism has to offer to the practice turn in order to clarify the notion of practice. On the other hand the paper claims that a pragmatism inspired by Dewey actually interprets ‘practices’ more radically than most of the other approaches and furthermore promotes an understanding of science that combines nonrepresentationalism and anti-foundationalism with an involvement of the philosopher or the social scientist in the production of knowledge, things and technologies.

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Building a global scientific community

International Sociology ◽

10.1177/0268580920906677 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 35 (2) ◽

pp. 115-122

Author(s):

Stefan Bargheer

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Latin America ◽

Eastern Europe ◽

North Africa ◽

Scientific Community ◽

European Research ◽

Research Perspective ◽

Social Sciences And Humanities ◽

The Third ◽

The Social

The three volumes reviewed in this essay assemble over 40 case studies written by more than 50 contributors that trace the development of the social sciences and humanities in Europe (East and West) and a number of countries in Latin America, North Africa, and East Asia. Two of these volumes grew out of the European research project ‘International Cooperation in the Social Sciences and Humanities’ (INTERCO-SSH); the third volume extends the focus of this project to Eastern Europe. A particularly innovative aspect shared by all contributions is the application of a transnational research perspective.

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"A world we don't know": the spatial configuration of sensory practices and production of knowledge in and around Mexican seismic monitoring

Journal of Political Ecology ◽

10.2458/v25i1.23076 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 25 (1) ◽

pp. 508 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Elizabeth Reddy

Keyword(s):

Environmental Monitoring ◽

Knowledge Production ◽

Spatial Configuration ◽

Seismic Monitoring ◽

Social Conditions ◽

Production Of Knowledge ◽

Geographic Knowledge ◽

Critical Attention ◽

Territorial Politics

AbstractA single technoscientific knowledge project can entail many different kinds of knowledge production. Here, I show how a Mexican technoscientific knowledge project about seismicity requires diverse sensory practices and the production of knowledge about many kinds of environmental and social conditions. I argue that Mexican territorial politics frame this knowledge. Further, I demonstrate that these politics become evident in the very ways that knowledge about Mexico is configured spatially, that is, in topological and topographic ways that technicians and engineers come to understand and relate to Mexican territory. After situating this argument within contemporary critical attention to the production of geographic knowledge, I address it ethnographically. First, I describe how Mexican seismic monitoring is undertaken from the headquarters of the Centro de Instrumentación y Registro Sísmico (CIRES). Then, I deal with the arrangements of power that structure seismic monitoring and social conditions in what CIRES engineers and technicians call "the field." As I relate the sensory work and knowledge production that field teams do when they leave CIRES headquarters, I show how the things that field teams can know are shaped by territorial politics, and consequently reflect them.Key Words: Mexico, environmental monitoring, sense, knowledge, earthquakes

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Publishing Trends and Practices in the Scientific Community

Canadian Journal of Communication ◽

10.22230/cjc.2004v29n3a1426 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 29 (3) ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Aldyth Holmes

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Scientific Community ◽

Business Models ◽

Electronic Publishing ◽

The Past ◽

Il Y A ◽

Sciences Humaines ◽

Scientific Technical ◽

Stm Publishers ◽

Sciences Humaines Et Sociales

Abstract: Scientific, technical, and medical (STM) publishing has been changing over the past 10 years. In Canada it has multiple business models that differ significantly from those in the humanities and social sciences. STM publishing worldwide is dominated by a few major publishers but is also very dispersed. The introduction of electronic publishing has changed the business model. This paper presents the results of a reader and author survey and discusses the implications of these results for STM publishers and their library clients. Résumé : Nous avons changé la façon de la publication de l’information scientifique, technique et médicale (STM) pendant les dernières dix année. Au Canada, il y a une multiplicité des modèles d’enterprise dans la domaine de l’information STM qui sont différent des modèles d’enterprise aux domaines des sciences humaines et sociales. Les éditeurs STM sont dominé par quels que maison d’éditions commerciales mais l’activité est aussi très dispersé. L’introduction des publications électroniques a changé le modèle d’enterprise. Nous présentons les résultats d’un étude des lectures et auteurs. Nous discutons les implications de ces résultats pour les éditeurs STM et les bibliothécaires.

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The Study of Women in Islam and the West: A Select Bibliography

Hawwa ◽

10.1163/1569208053628546 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 111-157 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Yvonne Haddad

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Muslim Women ◽

Higher Learning ◽

The West ◽

Production Of Knowledge ◽

Women In Islam ◽

Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽

The Social ◽

Select Bibliography ◽

Available Information

AbstractThis bibliography sets out to explore the topics that Muslim women in the West reflected on and researched as they joined the institutions of higher learning and began to have an input in the creation of knowledge. It also attempts to gather the available information about the experiences of Muslim women and surveys the available literature in English on Muslim women living in the West. While Muslim women have been professionally active in many fields, the bibliography is focused primarily on the production of knowledge by professors in the humanities and the social sciences and their contribution to our understanding of the debates about the women of Islam.

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MOTIVATING FACTORS FOR SCIENCE COMMUNICATION IN LATVIA

CBU International Conference Proceedings ◽

10.12955/cbup.v5.1042 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 5 ◽

pp. 879-882

Author(s):

JustÄ«ne VÄ«Ä·e

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Science Communication ◽

Scientific Community ◽

Qualitative Method ◽

Life Sciences ◽

Third Party ◽

Primary Data ◽

Motivating Factors ◽

Communication Models ◽

Public Demand

There is a public demand for communication of scientific findings that account for fragmentary expression of activities included in different science communication models. This study identifies factors facilitating the involvement of the scientific community in science communication. The primary data were obtained by a qualitative method of in-depth, semi-structured, expert interviews involving ten representatives of the Latvian scientific community relating to exact sciences, life sciences, and humanities and social sciences. The study distinguishes two categories for engaging the scientific community in science communication: a formally recognized approach and one involving a third party for organizing the communication.

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Challenges of academic and scientific output in the interface between Social and Human Sciences and Food and Nutrition Sciences

Revista de Nutrição ◽

10.1590/1415-52732015000100008 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 28 (1) ◽

pp. 89-98 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Ligia Amparo-Santos ◽

Micheli Dantas Soares

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Health Sciences ◽

Scientific Output ◽

Theoretical Frameworks ◽

Production Of Knowledge ◽

Social Sciences And Humanities ◽

Methodological Challenges ◽

The Social ◽

Food And Nutrition ◽

Important Challenge

This paper discusses theoretical and methodological challenges in the production of knowledge located in the interface between the Social Sciences and the Sciences of Food and Nutrition, mediated by Health Sciences. We recognize that the discussion on the intersections between these scientific fields arises from the need to expand the understanding of the phenomena surrounding the field of Food and Nutrition from other theoretical frameworks beyond the biomedical paradigm. The discussion will guide a reflection on the following issues: a) how to establish Brazilian academic-scientific output at the interface between the Nutritional Sciences and Social Sciences, mediated by Health Sciences; b) considering that there is a 'field' of the socio-anthropology of food developed historically within the Social Sciences and Humanities, which distinguishes the production of knowledge in the field of health; c) the main theoretical and methodological challenges of academic-scientific output today. We also discuss challenges related to the practical consequences of this output, considering the interventionist legacy in the field of health. Lastly, we highlight that such reflections also face another important challenge, namely the urgent need to reinvent ways of thinking and doing science which, articulated with demands inherent to a new field shaped by the search for production of knowledge and practices, is more important to issues raised by health care.

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Transitional Production of Knowledge For Civic Trust and Social Integration: Social Science in the Transitional Justice Process

IKAT The Indonesian Journal of Southeast Asian Studies ◽

10.22146/ikat.v2i2.40231 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 231

Author(s):

Katarzyna Marta Głąb

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Transitional Justice ◽

Social Reform ◽

Main Argument ◽

Narrow Sense ◽

Production Of Knowledge ◽

Dynamic Relation ◽

Justice Process ◽

The Relationship

This article aims to show that transitional justice should be understood extensively, going beyond the legal-criminal view (transitional justice in the narrow sense). The main argument of research is that social sciences offer a prepared methodological set, without which it is impossible to study these processes effectively, and thus it is impossible to carry out effective social reform, what the cases of some countries show. More andmore often, this is said about the significant role of reconciliation, buildingsocial trust and social cohesion, achieved through extra-legal means, using non-judicial mechanisms. The author intentions to highlight the rooting of transitional justice in this broader sense in social sciences and outline the relationship between truth and political regimes, explaining the dynamic relation of truth-knowledge to political power, but also to highlight the issue of overcoming the problematic universality of transitional justice.

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