scholarly journals Navigating Gendered Relational Spaces in Talanoa: Centring Gender in Talanoa Research Methodology

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moeata Keil
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Social Characteristics ◽  
Mothers And Fathers ◽  
Pacific People ◽  
Social Positioning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Early Career Researcher

Talanoa is a research methodology that foregrounds Pacific cultural values and acknowledges the importance of the positioning of researchers and participants in the research space. Researchers are encouraged to consider how their social characteristics, such as their gendered social positioning, shape their interactions with participants. Scholarship that carefully examines the significance of positionality, and approaches research with Pacific people from a Pacific epistemological stance, provides critical conceptual and practical guidance. In this paper, as a married Samoan mother and early career researcher in the social sciences, I reflect on gendered relational spaces in one-on-one talanoa with Pacific mothers and fathers.  

scholarly journals The implications for qualitative research methodology of the struggle between the individualised subject of phenomenology and the emergent multiplicities of the poststructuralist subject: the problem of agency

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bronwyn Davies
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
Reggio Emilia ◽  
The Social ◽  
Qualitative Research Methodology ◽  
Poststructuralist Theory ◽  
The Subject

This paper re-visits the problem of how we re-conceptualize human subjects within poststructuralist research. The turn to poststructuralist theory to inform research in the social sciences is complicated by the difficulty in thinking through what it means to put the subject under erasure. Drawing on a study in a Reggio Emilia inspired preschool in Sweden, and a study of neoliberalism's impact on academic work, this paper opens up thought about poststructuralism's subject. It argues that agency is the province of that subject. 

Intersectionality

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brittney Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Analytic Framework ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

Coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, the term intersectionality has become the key analytic framework through which feminist scholars in various fields talk about the structural identities of race, class, gender, and sexuality. This chapter situates intersectionality within a long history of black feminist theorizing about interlocking systems of power and oppression, arguing that intersectionality is not an account of personal identity but one of power. It challenges feminist theorists, including Robyn Wiegman, Jennifer Nash, and Jasbir Puar, who have attempted to move past intersectionality because of its limitations in fully attending to the contours of identity. The chapter also maps conversations within the social sciences about intersectionality as a research methodology. Finally, it considers what it means for black women to retain paradigmatic status within intersectionality studies, whether doing so is essentialist, and therefore problematic, or whether attempts to move “beyond” black women constitute attempts at erasure and displacement.

scholarly journals Are Children Interviewees Just Like Any Others?

2020 ◽  
Vol 146 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-98
Author(s):  
Alice Simon
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Social Characteristics ◽  
Age Difference ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Research Relationship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Key Issues

Based on a study combining qualitative and quantitative methods on children’s relation to politics, this article discusses the specificities of childhood as a research object in the social sciences. It raises two key issues. The first relates to the aptitudes required to participate in research (and thus the reliability of children’s responses) and the second relates to the potential imbalance in the research relationship. The article demonstrates that the difficulties encountered depend on the social characteristics of the children and are not specific to this age group. They primarily result from the distance between the interviewer and the interviewee, in this case stemming from the age difference sometimes accentuated by social distance. Children can be considered social beings like any others, and their specificities can be usefully analysed using the traditional tools of the social sciences.

Numbers vs. Narratives: the importance of integrating social science perspectives in ocean sustainability research

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Packer ◽  
Mirjam Held
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Types Of Knowledge ◽  
Ocean Management ◽  
Sustainability Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Sustainability Governance ◽  
Oceans Management

<p>Many disciplines study the ocean and its uses from different perspectives. Recently, there has been a growing awareness about the inseparability of the social and ecological systems and that achieving sustainable use of ocean resources will require the integration of different types of knowledge and disciplines. In this presentation, we will draw from the experience of two early career interdisciplinary scientists to present examples of the role social sciences can play in achieving sustainable oceans management, how and why it should be integrated with other ocean disciplines. More specifically, we will present how a qualitative research approaches to understanding seafood sustainability governance and community/rights-based management makes an important contribution to sustainable ocean management. We conclude that to achieve ocean sustainability, which is a societal problem, we not only need numbers but also the social sciences and their narratives.</p>

Partha Nath Mukherji (1940–2021): The Scholar and His Scholarship

2021 ◽  
pp. 003802292110146
Author(s):  
N. Jayaram
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Change ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Past President ◽  
Building Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sociological Society

This essay is a tribute to the memory of Partha Nath Mukherji (1940–2021), the past President of the Indian Sociological Society (2004–2005). After briefly tracing his scholarly career, it provides an overview of his sociological contributions spanning almost six decades. His oeuvre covered a variety of themes and issues, both empirical and theoretical, which can be categorised under the following rubrics: social movements and social change, sociology of agrarian relations, democratic decentralisation and panchayats, nationalism and nation-building, research methodology, indigenisation of the social sciences, regional (South Asian) sociology, and the question of approach and relevance in Indian sociology.

scholarly journals EMBARKING ON RESEARCH IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: UNDERSTANDING THE FOUNDATIONAL CONCEPTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Raqib Chowdhury
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Methodological Choices ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
First Time

Written primarily for new or early-career researchers and postgraduate students, this paper problematises some of the foundational concepts any beginning researcher will come across when conducting research for the first time. Understanding the oft-confused, abstract, yet important notions of ontology, epistemology and paradigms can be a daunting obstacle in the experience of a new researcher, yet there are nearly no ways of sidelining these if we were to meaningfully plan, construct and execute our research. Through familiar examples, this article engages in discussing the research approach and design and how these are grounded in the ways a researcher thinks about and understands the world - in other words, how their ontological and epistemological positions determine the methodological choices they make. As well as problematising these concepts, the article also compares the qualitative and quantitative approaches, and critically considers how, in some ways, qualitative studies can yield richer results in the social science disciplines, including in Education.

Affiliation in Transition: Rethinking Society Membership with Early-Career Researchers in the Social Sciences

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcel LaFlamme
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
The Social

This paper by Marcel LaFlamme explores new forms of connection and community for early-career researchers in less formal structures, often facilitated by social media and other communication technologies. By learning from these loosely institutionalized spaces, LaFlamme contends, scholarly societies as well as research libraries and their parent institutions can adapt to a changing environment and take steps to make scholarship more open and accessible.

MIXED METHODS - METHODOLOGICAL PROPOSAL TO THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

2020 ◽  
pp. 4-26
Author(s):  
Alexander Ali-Zade ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Current Interest ◽  
Research Paradigm ◽  
The Social ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
New Research

The article is devoted to the issues of modern research methodology in the humanities and social sciences. It examines the growing interest of the research community and methodologists of science in the field of humanities and social sciences in the use of mixed research methods - a combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis. It is concluded that the current interest of researchers in the use of mixed methods possibly indicates the formation in the humanities and social sciences of a new research paradigm based on the development of the methodology of mixed methods as an independent methodology.

Anthropology and Research Methodology

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graciela Batallán
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Research Training ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Social Agent ◽  
The Social ◽  
Qualitative Research Methodology ◽  
True Knowledge ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
The University

This article provides a reflection on “qualitative” research methodology and their study within the university and other educational levels and invites dialogue between paradigms and currents of thought that are identified with teaching and the methods of producing empirical information. From a critical perspective, together with the positivism of the social sciences, it argues that the node of this teaching is the process of constructing the object of study, a process that confirms the centrality of the researcher. In accordance with a theoretical-methodological focus that distinguishes the specificity of the object of the social sciences in its linguistic construction, and considering the capacity for agency of the temporarily situated actors, the researcher (also a social agent), in addition to taking on the scope and historicity of the concepts used to problematize the relationships being investigated, needs to analyze the reflexivity of his/her language, which is inscribed in the assumptions that guide his/her inquiry. In this way, research training embodies a pedagogical problematic, whereby addressing the aforementioned centrality of the construction of the object goes hand in hand with the pedagogical problematization of everyday speech. Research-in-action training constitutes the future researcher as a critical intellectual, in search of a reliable (or true) knowledge that will incorporate him/her into the scientific framework.

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