scholarly journals Juventud e investigaciones sociales en Cuba

2017 ◽  
pp. 241
Author(s):  
María Isabel Domínguez
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Treatment Area ◽  
The Social ◽  
Concrete Problem ◽  
Generational Identity ◽  
Last Stage ◽  
The Impact

ResumenLos estudios sobre Juventud han constituido una de las áreas de tratamiento más sistemático y estructurado por parte de las Ciencias Sociales en Cuba. El siguiente artículo hará referencia al recorrido de dichos estudios por más de cuatro décadas y centrará la atención en el tratamiento de un problema concreto investigado en la última etapa: la integración social de la juventud en el país y el impacto de los resultados de esos estudios en los cambios en las políticas sociales dirigidas a este sector.Palabras clave: Juventud, Investigaciones Sociales, Integración Social, Política Social, Subjetividad, Identidad Generacional.AbstractThe studies about Youth have constituted one of the more systematic and structured treatment area for Social Sciences in Cuba. The present paper makes reference to the journey of these studies for more than four decades. Also it pays attention to the treatment of a concrete problem researched in the last stage: the youth’s social integration in the country and the impact of the results of those studies in the social policies to this sector and its transformations.Key words: Youth, Social Research, Social Integration, Social Policy, Subjectivity, Generational Identity.

scholarly journals Juventud e investigaciones sociales en Cuba

2017 ◽  
pp. 241
Author(s):  
María Isabel Domínguez
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Treatment Area ◽  
The Social ◽  
Concrete Problem ◽  
Generational Identity ◽  
Last Stage ◽  
The Impact

ResumenLos estudios sobre Juventud han constituido una de las áreas de tratamiento más sistemático y estructurado por parte de las Ciencias Sociales en Cuba. El siguiente artículo hará referencia al recorrido de dichos estudios por más de cuatro décadas y centrará la atención en el tratamiento de un problema concreto investigado en la última etapa: la integración social de la juventud en el país y el impacto de los resultados de esos estudios en los cambios en las políticas sociales dirigidas a este sector.Palabras clave: Juventud, Investigaciones Sociales, Integración Social, Política Social, Subjetividad, Identidad Generacional.AbstractThe studies about Youth have constituted one of the more systematic and structured treatment area for Social Sciences in Cuba. The present paper makes reference to the journey of these studies for more than four decades. Also it pays attention to the treatment of a concrete problem researched in the last stage: the youth’s social integration in the country and the impact of the results of those studies in the social policies to this sector and its transformations.Key words: Youth, Social Research, Social Integration, Social Policy, Subjectivity, Generational Identity.

scholarly journals We Need to Talk about Impact: Why Social Policy Academics need to Engage with the UK's Research Impact Agenda

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
KATHERINE E. SMITH ◽  
ELLEN STEWART
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Health Inequalities ◽  
Research Impact ◽  
Policy Response ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Policy Relevance ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

AbstractOf all the social sciences, social policy is one of the most obviously policy-orientated. One might, therefore, expect a research and funding agenda which prioritises and rewards policy relevance to garner an enthusiastic response among social policy scholars. Yet, the social policy response to the way in which major funders and the Research Excellence Framework (REF) are now prioritising ‘impact’ has been remarkably muted. Elsewhere in the social sciences, ‘research impact’ is being widely debated and a wealth of concerns about the way in which this agenda is being pursued are being articulated. Here, we argue there is an urgent need for social policy academics to join this debate. First, we employ interviews with academics involved in health inequalities research, undertaken between 2004 and 2015, to explore perceptions, and experiences, of the ‘impact agenda’ (an analysis which is informed by a review of guidelines for assessing ‘impact’ and relevant academic literature). Next, we analyse high- and low-scoring REF2014 impact case studies to assess whether these concerns appear justified. We conclude by outlining how social policy expertise might usefully contribute to efforts to encourage, measure and reward research ‘impact’.

Dimensions of Impact in the Social Sciences

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tina Haux
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Impact Pathways ◽  
The Social ◽  
Policy Models ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Research And Policy

Academics are increasingly required to demonstrate their impact on the wider world. The aim of this book is to compare and contextualise the dimensions of impact within the social sciences. Unlike most other studies of the 2014 Research Excellence Framework impact case studies, this book includes case studies from three different sub-panels (Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work and Politics and International Relations), which in themselves capture several disciplines, and therefore allows for a comparison of how impact and academic identify are defined and presented. The impact case studies are placed in an analytical framework that identifies different types of impact and impact pathways and places them in the context of policy models. Finally, it provides a comparison across time based on interviews with Social Policy professors who are looking back over 40 years of being involved as well as analysing the relationship between research and policy-making. This long view highlights successes but also the serendipitous and superficial nature of impact across time.

scholarly journals Public Sociology and Participatory Approaches. Towards a Democratization of Social Research?

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 152-172
Author(s):  
Silvia Cataldi
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Urban Sociology ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Participatory Approaches ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Impact

The subject of participation has been gathering increasing interest from the various social disciplines: from politology to psychology, from urban sociology to evaluation, this concept carries a particular fascination and discussing participatory research has now become an absolute must. However, an adequate reflection on methodologies for analyzing research practices and evaluating hypotheses and effects when setting up actual research relationships has not followed on the tail of this new tendency. This paper arises from that need and aims, through discussion of the main debates that have interested science and sociology, to reevaluate a critical approach towards the analysis of the social relationships that are created during a research investigation. This study starts out as a reflection aimed at analyzing the impact that participation, in all its various forms, can have on the way research is carried out. The originality of this article lies in the proposal of a form of participation, and from this, the expression of a hope for the future of social sciences: that we can aspire towards a dialogical model and towards a new cooperative and emancipatory relationship with the public.

Policy Studies and Social Policy in Britain

1979 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-334
Author(s):  
Stuart S. Blume
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Policy Planning ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Policy Making Process ◽  
Recent Debate ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACTThe recent debate about the establishment of a ‘British Brookings’ involved a number of fundamental issues which were not brought out. In fact the idea that the British policy-making process should be made more ‘rational’ through the development of what are sometimes called policy studies is not new. It has roots in the Heyworth Report on social studies, which recommended greater use of social research in policy-making, and in the Fulton Report on the civil service, which argued for more policy-planning. These two approaches may now be seen as basically the same, and the problem as one of changing the relationship between social science and (social) policy. However, past analyses of this relationship attribute difficulties to quite different causes and hence yield a variety of prescriptions for reform. It is argued here that the policy studies which are needed must avoid the disciplinary fragmentation of the social sciences as well as that of the current administrative structure, that they must encompass research both for policy and on policy, and that they must seek their own conceptual structure, and in addition that certain organizational requirements follow from this.

scholarly journals The Relevance of Inequality Research in Sociology for Inequality Reduction

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 237802312110201
Author(s):  
Thomas A. DiPrete ◽  
Brittany N. Fox-Williams
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Life Chances ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Large Scale Change ◽  
The Subject

Social inequality is a central topic of research in the social sciences. Decades of research have deepened our understanding of the characteristics and causes of social inequality. At the same time, social inequality has markedly increased during the past 40 years, and progress on reducing poverty and improving the life chances of Americans in the bottom half of the distribution has been frustratingly slow. How useful has sociological research been to the task of reducing inequality? The authors analyze the stance taken by sociological research on the subject of reducing inequality. They identify an imbalance in the literature between the discipline’s continual efforts to motivate the plausibility of large-scale change and its lesser efforts to identify feasible strategies of change either through social policy or by enhancing individual and local agency with the potential to cumulate into meaningful progress on inequality reduction.

Benson and Miller in Perspective

1979 ◽  
Vol 3 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 242-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Kuklick
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Applied Science ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Knowledge ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
Stock Of Knowledge

Despite differences in coloration Miller and Benson are birds of a feather. Although he is no Pollyanna, Miller believes that there has been a modest and decent series of advances in the social sciences and that the most conscientious, diligent, and intelligent researchers will continue to add to this stock of knowledge. Benson is much more pessimistic about the achievements of yesterday and today but, in turn, offers us the hope of a far brighter tomorrow. Miller explains Benson’s hyperbolic views about the past and future by distinguishing between pure and applied science and by pointing out Benson’s naivete about politics: the itch to understand the world is different from the one to make it better; and, Miller says, because Benson sees that we have not made things better, he should not assume we do not know more about them; Benson ought to realize, Miller adds, that the way politicians translate basic social knowledge into social policy need not bring about rational or desirable results. On the other side, Benson sees more clearly than Miller that the development of science has always been intimately intertwined with the control of the environment and the amelioration of the human estate.

The Edwards' Report and the International Relations profession

1988 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Nicholson
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Social Science Community ◽  
The Social ◽  
Science Community

The Economic and Social Research Council recently published a Report commissioned from a committee chaired by Professor Edwards, a psychiatrist, so that the Council, and the social science community in general, might know what was good and bad in British social sciences, and where the promising future research opportunities lie over the next decade. Boldly called ‘Horizons and Opportunities in the Social Sciences’, the Report condensed the wisdom of social scientists, both British and foreign, and concludes with a broadly but not uncritically favourable picture of the British scene.

People aged 60 and over - a challenge and an opportunity for the Polish social policy

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-159
Author(s):  
Józef Młyński
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Senior Citizens ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Ageing Society ◽  
Important Place ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact

In an ageing society, over-60s’ problems take an important place in the social policy. The State should be prepared for various implications, both positive and negative, of the ageing of the population, and should treat the potential problems of citizens as a challenge and an opportunity for the development of social policy, and within its framework, the policy aimed at the senior citizens. The senior citizens, by all means, constitute an important age group. This type of policy should be focused on both early and late old age people, addressing their different needs and expectations. This article attempts to show the challenges and the role of social policy addressed to the seniors, both at the early and late old age, especially at the local community level. The impact of the article is analysed in the three dimensions described, i.e. a brief outline of the ageing of the population from a demographic perspective, social policy towards seniors at the early and late old age, the challenge the 60 and over pose to the local policy versus their resources.

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