scholarly journals Contemporary Art on the Touchstone of Social Sciences: The Experience of the Artist Jeff Koons as a Model

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 213
Author(s):  
Wisam Abdulmawla
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Complementary Relationship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Jeff Koons ◽  
The Relationship

The current research aims to clarify the overlap of visual arts and contemporary different social sciences. It also aims to re-read the art work in a way to highlight the deep interaction of the recipient with the theme of the artwork in order to establish some art concepts which contribute to change and build a new visual culture for the society. This research also seeks to highlight the importance of today’s contemporary art as one of the fields of science. It dialogues many other areas and intersects with a lot of different sciences including the social sciences as a model for intermediary sciences. It shows the overlap between visual arts and different contemporary social sciences. It seeks, moreover, to re-read the artwork so as to highlight the deep interaction of the recipient with the society’s visual culture. The study tries to consider the idea of crossing borders between the various arts by opening onto each other. In other words, it wishes to emphasize the unique artistic pattern which had been considered to be confined within a unit of specialty with no partnership between one art and another or connection to the social sciences can transcend these borders. The research focuses on the experience of the artist Jeff Koons as a model of the complementary relationship between the practice of fine arts associated with many other fields of specialty, most importantly the social sciences. The research focuses on the experience of the artist as a model for the relationship of complementarily between fine practice and numerous other areas, notably the social sciences. 

Fighting or mixing: quantitative and qualitative research

2020 ◽  
pp. 111-134
Author(s):  
Paul Thompson ◽  
Ken Plummer ◽  
Neli Demireva
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Quantitative Method ◽  
Middle Ground ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Conscious Decision ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter focuses on the age-old debate in the social sciences about the primacy of methods and the relationship of our pioneers to one of the main ideological battles blighting disciplines such as sociology. Every researcher makes a conscious decision to adopt a qualitative or quantitative method in their social enquiry, or sometimes to even mix them both, and it would have been extremely unusual for the pioneers not to engage sometimes with the oppressive responsibility to pick a 'side'. The chapter explores the extremes in this debate, as well as less-entrenched positions that advocate a middle-ground approach.

Arviq! The Northern Hunter’s Spiritual Connection to Animals and Community Presenter:

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chelsea Drent
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Social Constructions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Domination ◽  
Critical Social Science ◽  
Inuit Peoples ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

In Inuktituk, nuna means the land. It means the rocks, rivers, mountains and the forests. Nuna is everything, and all parts of the nuna have an inua, which means a living soul. There is a special, if not sacred relationship between members of northern communities and the nuna. However, these sacred relationships are all too often glossed over, if not forgotten. In the social sciences, author John Sorenson articulates a critical argument and evocative opinions about hunting in his article; Hunting is a Part of Human Nature (John Sorenson, “Hunting is a Part of Human Nature,” Culture of Prejudice, Arguments in Critical Social Science. Eds. Judith Blackwell, Murray Smith, John Sorenson, (Canada: Broadview Press, 2003).Sorenson demonstrates that hunting is an unnatural human activity which is linked to a cultural domination over animals. However, in these statements Sorenson neglects to consider the northern hunter in Inuit communities around the world. Cultural myths, social constructions and daily activities prove that hunting animals is a core value to how many Inuit peoples relate to each other and perceive themselves in the cosmos. This is a study that examines the relationship of people, land, animals and faith in order to understand the significance of hunting within Inuit cultures.

scholarly journals The Dialectic of Qur’an and Science: Epistemological Analysis of Thematic Qur’an Interpretation Literature in the Field of Social Sciences of Humanities

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 209
Author(s):  
Anwar Mujahidin
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Epistemology Of Science ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Epistemological Analysis ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Published Research ◽  
Epistemological Framework

This paper aims to analyze the results of published research from Indonesian researchers who have the theme of the thematic interpretation of the Qur’an (mawdūi) in the field of humanities. The question is how is the relationship of the Qur’an as a holy book as well as the source of Islamic sciences integrated and interconnected with the social sciences of the humanities. This research is a qualitative library research with a critical approach. The theory used is the epistemology of science and the scientific revolution, so it can be found the relationship between the Qur’an and science which are reflected in the object of research and criticism is made to make the constructive pattern of the Quran interpretation according to the epistemological framework. The results of the study show that there are three patterns of relations between the Qur’an and science. First, the Qur’an is a source of knowledge, in which the Qur’an and theories in the social sciences of the humanities are identical and in line. Second. The Qur’an is a source of universal value. The verses of the Qur’an which relate to the field of study in the social-humanities contain universal axiological values contributing to the construction of the social sciences of the humanities. Third, the Qur’an has a different perspective on an object of science, thus it contributes to build a paradigm of science. Of the three patterns, the second and third patterns can be developed as a pattern of relations between the Qur’an and science. The Qur’an is a social science-humanities paradigm. The relationship between the Quran and the social sciences of the humanities is a dialectical paradigmatic relationship, namely the dialogue between text and context and context to text.[Paper ini bertujuan menganalisis hasil penelitian yang telah terpublikasi dari para peneliti Indonesia yang memiliki topic tafsir al-Quran tematik (mawdūi`) pada  bidang Ilmu Sosial Humaniora. Pertanyaannya adalah bagaimana hubungan al-Quran sebagai kitab suci sekaligus sumber ilmu- ilmu keislaman berintegrasi dan berinterkoneksi dengan ilmu-ilmu sosial humaniora. Penelitian ini adalah jenis penelitian kualitatif kepustakaan dengan pendekatan kritis. Teori yang digunakan adalah epistemologi ilmu dan revolusi ilmu pengetahuan, sehingga dapat ditemukan pola-pola hubungan al-Quran dan sains yang tercermin dalam objek penelitian serta dilakukan kritik untuk membuat pola tafsir al-Quran yang konstruktif sesuai kerangka epistemologi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan adanya tiga pola hubungan al-Quran dan sains. Pertama, al-Quran adalah sumber ilmu, di mana al-Quran dan teori-teori dalam ilmu sosial humaniora adalah identik dan sejalan.Kedua.Al-Quran adalah sumber nilai universal. Ayat-ayat al-Quran yang berhubungan dengan bidang kajian dalam ilmu sosial-humaniora mengandung nilai-nilai universal yang aksiologis berkontribusi terhadap konstruksi ilmu sosial humaniora. Ketiga, al-Quran memiliki cara pandang yang berbeda terhadap suatu objek sains, sehingga berkontribusi untuk membangun suatu paradigma ilmu. Dari ketiga pola tersebut, pola kedua dan ketiga dapat dikembangkan sebagai pola hubunganal-Quran dan sains. Al-Quran menjadi paradigma ilmu sosial-humaniora. Hubungan al-Quran dan ilmu-ilmu sosial humaniora adalah hubungan paradigmatik dialektik, yakni dialog antara teks ke konteks dan konteks ke teks.]

scholarly journals Towards the Theory of the Naïve Art – Grgo Gamulin and the Understanding of Modernism

2019 ◽  
pp. 191-209
Author(s):  
Ivana Mance
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Socialist Realism ◽  
Art World ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
The Social ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The article presents the theory of naïve art of the Croatian art historian Grgo Gamulin (1910–1997), which he developed in a number of texts written from early 1960s. In his theory, Gamulin tried to explain the phenomenon of naïve art on the basis of the modernist paradigm by applying the type of argumentation that is characteristic for the discourse of high-modernity. Gamulin’s postulates on the naïve can be summarised with a few basic lines of speculation. First of all, Gamulin claims that the phenomenon of the naïve was epistemologically possible only in the context of modernism, and that it should therefore be considered an equally valuable movement of contemporary art. However, in order to defend its authenticity, he began adhering to the ab ovo theory, the notion that naïve art does not arise as a cumulative result of the historical development of art, but that it ontologically precedes that development. The naïve artist, according to Gamulin, always starts from the beginning, independent of events in the art world, and immune to influences. A naïve artist is therefore necessarily authentic, or rather original: not having any role models, he develops an individual style, independently building his own visual arts language. Gamulin further posits that the visual arts language of the naïve is not based on a naive imitation of reality, or mimesis, but on an instinctive, spontaneous symbolisation of subjective experience, and as such is completely autonomous in relation to the laws of reality, i.e. it is ontologically grounded in the artist’s imagination. Finally, in an effort to explain the social significance of naïve art, Gamulin interprets the emergence of the naïve in the context of the culture of modernism as compensation – a supposedly naïve attitude to aesthetic norms, as well as an imaginarium that evokes “lost spaces of childhood,” necessarily functions as a therapeutic substitute for the alienation of art and the modern life in general. As such, Gamulin’s theory vividly testifies to the character of naïve art as a phenomenon that is constitutive of the culture of modernism, but that also reflects a number of contemporary polemics and split opinions, not only on the topic of the naïve but of modernism as a whole. The split of opinions on naïve art, especially with regard to its genesis, partly reflects the positions of the so-called conflict on the left, discussions that were taking place between the interwar period and early 1950s with the aim of defining the relationship of leftist ideology to modernism, or rather the relationship between the values of socially-critical engagement and aesthetic autonomy. The discussion on the naïve, however, experienced a certain changing of sides– Grgo Gamulin, a one-time advocate for socialist realism, began supporting naïve art and thus rose to the defence of basically liberal understanding of modernism, while former opponents of socialist realism denounced the phenomenon of the naïve as ideologically inconsistent and aesthetically doctored. In conclusion, Gamulin’s theory, as well as the entire polemic around naïve art that was taking place during the 1960s and which the theory necessarily ties in with, demonstrates the complex contextual reality of a seemingly integral modernist paradigm, illustrating the confrontation of positions that is by no means peculiar to Yugoslav society.

scholarly journals The walk-and-talk methodology – researching place and people

2020 ◽  
Vol 85 ◽  
pp. 03007
Author(s):  
Maruta Pranka
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Baltic Coast ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Gathering Data

The article focuses on walk-and-talk interviews, which are yet a little-used research method in Latvia. The term is used in the social sciences and humanities and is an appropriate method for gathering data in order to determine the relationship of an individual or a social group with a specific place. The method in a pilot project was used to listen to life experiences in Tūja, a village along the Baltic coast in Latvia. The study focused on social change in Tūja and the influence of the economic and political changes of the 1990s on the living conditions and lifestyle of the local inhabitants. The pilot project was conducted by the researchers from the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of University of Latvia.

Protecting the Caribbean from itself: UNDCP and the ganja debate

2002 ◽  
Vol 76 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 95-96
Author(s):  
Axel Klein
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Drug Policy ◽  
Control Programme ◽  
Caribbean Region ◽  
Local Experience ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
The Relationship

[First paragraph]Drug policy in the Caribbean region provides a testing ground for one of the key themes in the social sciences over recent years, the relationship of knowledge and power. Acting as intermediary between northern donors and the microstates of the region, the organization - United Nations International Control Programme (UNDCP) - applies the models framed by northern expertise even when local experience suggests they are inappropriate. Instead of adapting, in the light of new evidence, the organization mobilizes its resources on stifling dissent.

Dairy Cows: Workers in the Shadows?

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jocelyne Porcher ◽  
Tiphaine Schmitt
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Dairy Cows ◽  
Distinctive Feature ◽  
The Social ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Despite the interest that sociologists, especially in the English-speaking world, show in animals and human-animal relations, we know little about the place that animals actually have in work. The social sciences still see work as a distinctive feature of humans. Based on the hypothesis that animals are actors involved in the process of work, and not simply objects, the relationship of a herd of 60 cows was studied (a) with their farmer, (b) among themselves, and (c) with a milking robot. Our findings show that cows do collaborate in the farmer’s work, and our results raise the question: can cows’ collaboration in work be considered work?

scholarly journals Anísio Teixeira e as Ciências Sociais * Anísio Teixeira and the Social Sciences

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
KAREN FERNANDA DA SILVA BORTOLOTI
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
New School ◽  
Global View ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Renewal Movement

<p class="Default"><strong>Resumo: </strong>O presente trabalho examina as ideias do educador baiano Anísio Spínola Teixeira entre os anos 1946 e 1960, focalizando as suas concepções acerca das Ciências Sociais, que estiveram presentes nas propostas e práticas do movimento de renovação educacional. Tendo por pressuposto que o pensamento e as realizações de Teixeira devem ser compreendidos dentro do contexto, o trabalho considera a relação do movimento renovador com as ciências sociais. O referencial metodológico empregado adota o princípio de que Teixeira procede a uma apropriação das Ciências Sociais, recontextualizando conceitos e enunciados. O trabalho evidencia Teixeira pensando a educação a partir das Ciências Sociais, compreendendo as exigências da sociedade e as peculiaridades do indivíduo, rompendo a dicotomia entre o particular e o coletivo.</p><p class="Default"><strong>Palavras-chave: </strong>Anísio Teixeira; Ciências Sociais; Escola Nova.</p><p class="Default"> </p><p class="Default"><strong>Abstract: </strong>This paper examines the ideas and actions of Anísio Spinola Teixeira, an educator from Bahia State, between the years 1946 and 1960, focusing on his conceptions of the social sciences, which were significantly present in the proposals and practices of the movement of the Brazilian educational renewal. Taking for granted that the thinking and accomplishments of Teixeira should be understood in the context in which they were developed, the work considers the relationship of the renewal movement in the social sciences. The methodological framework employed adopts the principle that Teixeira held an appropriation of knowledge of Social Sciences, recontextualizing concepts and statements under the situation in which it is situated. This work shows Teixeira thinking education from the references of Social Sciences to formulate a global view of man, including the demands of society and the peculiarities of the individual, breaking the dichotomy between the individual and the collective.</p><p class="Default"><strong>Keywords: </strong>Anísio Teixeira; Social Sciences; New School.</p>

The development of socio-legal studies in the United Kingdom

Legal Studies ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. R. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Effects ◽  
Legal Rules ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Law ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

There is no agreed definition of socio-legal studies: some use the term broadly to cover the study of law in its social context, but I prefer to use it to refer to the study of the law and legal institutions from the perspectives of the social sciences (viz all the social sciences – not only sociology). The last decade has seen many developments in this enterprise. Many younger academic lawyers became dissatisfied with the traditional type of legal scholarship, which concentrated on the internal consistency of the law and the inter-relationship of different legal rules. They showed great interest in studying the realities of the law in action, the social effects of law and the relationship of law to wider questions of social structure, and naturally turned to the social sciences for assistance.

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