COGNITIVE TURN IN SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

Naukovedenie ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 54-71
Author(s):  
Alexander Ali-Zade ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Global Information ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Social Self ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Global Information Society

The review analyzes a new cognitive trend in the social sciences and humanities. It is argued that digital communication technologies, which have formed a global information society with an unprecedented level of social self-organization, have created a public demand for a broad democratization of knowledge. It is shown that in response to this demand, social and human sciences are forced to adjust their theoretical, methodological and methodical tools accordingly.

scholarly journals Capitalism and Metaphysics

2007 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Lash
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Global Finance ◽  
Exchange Value ◽  
Efficient Cause ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Global Information Society ◽  
Physical Causation ◽  
Time Information

Contemporary capitalism is becoming increasingly metaphysical. The article contrasts a ‘physical’ capitalism – of the national and manufacturing age – with a ‘metaphysical capitalism’ of the global information society. It describes physical capitalism in terms of (1) extensity, (2) equivalence, (3) equilibrium and (4) the phenomenal, which stands in contrast to metaphysical capitalism’s (1) intensity, (2) inequivalence (or difference), (3) disequilibrium and (4) the noumenal. Most centrally: if use-value or the gift in pre-capitalist society is grounded in concrete inequivalence, and exchange-value in physical capitalism presumes abstract equivalence, then value in contemporary society presumes abstract inequivalence. The article argues that the predominantly physical causation of the earlier epoch is being superseded by a more metaphysical causation. This is discussed in terms of the four Aristotelian causes. Thus there is a shift in efficient cause from abstract homogenous labour to abstract heterogeneous life. Material cause changes from the commodity’s units of equivalence to consist of informational units of inequivalence. Formal cause takes place through the preservation of form as a disequilibriate system through operations of closure. These operations are at the same time information interchanges with a form’s environment. Final (and first) cause becomes the deep-structural generation of information from a compressed virtual substrate. This may have implications for method in the social and human sciences. The article illustrates this shift with a brief discussion of global finance.

scholarly journals Core and Periphery of Information Society: Significance of Geospatial Technologies

2013 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-49
Author(s):  
Piotr A. Werner ◽  
Tomasz Opach
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Spatial Dimension ◽  
Global Information ◽  
Geospatial Technologies ◽  
Development Level ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Global Information Society ◽  
Is Development

Abstract The paper attempts to identify important factors significant for global information society development and to determine the significance of geospatial (geo-information) technologies. The starting point is international measures of the development level of information & communication technologies (ICT) and information society (IS). The relevance of the particular factors was defined using the general segmentation of the milieu, taking into account social, technological, economic, environmental, political, legal and ethical factors and also estimating the global spatial dimension of ICT and IS development. The diagnosis serves as the context of considerations concerning the contribution of geographers and cartographers to IS.

scholarly journals SOCIOCULTURAL METHODOLOGY AS A THEORETICAL BASIS ANALYSIS OF THE TRANSFORMATION OF MODERN SOCIETY

2020 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 80-86
Author(s):  
D.G. Shormanbayeva ◽  
◽  
Ye.N. Ivleva ◽  
O. M. Khmelnitskaya ◽  
М. А. Seydinova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Integrated Analysis ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Methodological Tool ◽  
Information And Communication

This article is an attempt to explicate the social and cultural approach as a general methodological tool that allows for integrated analysis of the modern society. It discusses the possibility of using the methodological potential of the social and cultural approach for analyzing the process of transformation of the modern society that is more and more often referred to as information and communication society. The notion of the information society itself has become operational and forming social ideals and values that are widely discussed by the social sciences and humanities within the social and cultural approach.

scholarly journals INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE ON TRANSFORMING PRACTICES: EMANCIPATORY APPROACHES TO YOUTH ENGAGEMENT

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natasha Blanchet-Cohen ◽  
Warren Linds ◽  
Varda Mann-Feder ◽  
Felice Yuen
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Youth Engagement ◽  
Community Studies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Concordia University

<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong>Acknowledgements: </strong><span style="font-size: small;">The authors would like to thank the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Centre for Human Relations and Community Studies, the Department of Applied Human Sciences, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Concordia University for their support. We also wish to express our appreciation to Peggy Herring, our copy editor for the special issue.</span></span><strong></strong></p>

Synergetic Theory of Document in Evolution of Document Science

2018 ◽  
pp. 1060-1068
Author(s):  
Galina A. Dvoenosova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Role ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Universal Theory ◽  
Social Self ◽  
Social Goal ◽  
The Social ◽  
Synergetic Theory ◽  
First Time

The article assesses synergetic theory of document as a new development in document science. In information society the social role of document grows, as information involves all members of society in the process of documentation. The transformation of document under the influence of modern information technologies increases its interest to representatives of different sciences. Interdisciplinary nature of document as an object of research leads to an ambiguous interpretation of its nature and social role. The article expresses and contends the author's views on this issue. In her opinion, social role of document is incidental to its being a main social tool regulating the life of civilized society. Thus, the study aims to create a scientific theory of document, explaining its nature and social role as a tool of social (goal-oriented) action and social self-organization. Substantiation of this idea is based on application of synergetics (i.e., universal theory of self-organization) to scientific study of document. In the synergetic paradigm, social and historical development is seen as the change of phases of chaos and order, and document is considered a main tool that regulates social relations. Unlike other theories of document, synergetic theory studies document not as a carrier and means of information transfer, but as a unique social phenomenon and universal social tool. For the first time, the study of document steps out of traditional frameworks of office, archive, and library. The document is placed on the scales with society as a global social system with its functional subsystems of politics, economy, culture, and personality. For the first time, the methods of social sciences and modern sociological theories are applied to scientific study of document. This methodology provided a basis for theoretical vindication of nature and social role of document as a tool of social (goal-oriented) action and social self-organization. The study frames a synergetic theory of document with methodological foundations and basic concepts, synergetic model of document, laws of development and effectiveness of document in the social continuum. At the present stage of development of science, it can be considered the highest form of theoretical knowledge of document and its scientific explanatory theory.

Women break down the barriers to the Vietnamese social sciences and humanities

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quan-Hoang Vuong
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Middle Income Country ◽  
Women In Science ◽  
Income Country ◽  
The West ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Low And Middle Income

Valian rightly made a case for better recognition of women in science during the Nobel week in October 2018 (Valian, 2018). However, it seems most published views about gender inequality in Nature focused on the West. This correspondence shifts the focus to women in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in a low- and middle-income country (LMIC).

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