scholarly journals Current political agenda of Russian sociological journals

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.A. Yadova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Political Sociology ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Abstract Journal ◽  
Political Transformations ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Secondary Information

The paper analyses content on socio-political topics published in contemporary Russian sociological journals: “Sociological Studies”, “Sociological Journal”, “Siberian Socium” and “Social Sciences and Humanities. Domestic and Foreign Literature. Series 11. Sociology”. The publications that were the subject of our interest were predominantly under the heading of political sociology and/or in thematically similar sections. Among the most discussed topics in the pages of the journals are the following: the domestic political agenda, primarily related to the manifestation of protest and civic activism of Russians; the role of individual political actors or institutions (state, Russian President, elite, youth, etc) in the socio-political transformations in the country; problems and outcomes of post-Soviet transformations; foreign policy issues (confron- ∗ Yadova Maiya, Institute of information for social sciences of the Russian academy of sciences (Moscow, Russia), e-mail: [email protected] Political science (RU), 2021, N 4 305 tation between Russia and Western countries, threats to national security), sociopolitical structure of other world powers. A small proportion of the studies in this segment focus on new concepts and theoretical and methodological approaches in political sociology, or on socio-political phenomena that have not yet been sufficiently explored. The thematic repertoire of journals depends on their genre peculiarity. General sociology journals are characterised by coverage of a wide range of political issues. In the journal “Siberian Socium”, as expected, there is a prevalence of works with a regional focus, but there are also some more general works. Abstract journal “Sociology”, due to its specificity, is primarily represented by secondary information and analytical materials (abstracts, literature reviews, book reviews), which as a rule are based on foreign-language sources of scientific literature.

SPRI Review 2004

Polar Record ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-280
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Russian Far East ◽  
Far East ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Polar Regions ◽  
External Funding ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Institute Staff ◽  
Important Addition

This year has seen considerable successes for the Institute and its staff in terms of both academic research and our role in projecting the history and environmental significance of the polar regions more widely. In the physical and social sciences, and in our library, archival, and museum activities, we have secured a wide range of external grants. The acquisition of significant external funding for research in the social sciences and humanities, and for museum activities, represents an important addition to our continuing strong portfolio of competitively won research council grants relating to high-latitude environmental change. Institute staff hold grants of almost £2.5 million, and it is this external funding that has supported polar field programmes in both the natural and social sciences during 2004 in Antarctica, Greenland, Svalbard, and the Russian Far East. The information collected, using methods ranging from airborne lasers deployed over glaciers to informal discussions with native Siberian reindeer herders, will provide the basis for a number of forthcoming publications in both academic journals and books accessible to a wider readership.

scholarly journals Ethics as attention to context: recommendations for the ethics of artificial intelligence

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Anais Resseguier ◽  
Rowena Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Ethical Theories ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Ai Ethics ◽  
Guidance Documents ◽  
Practical Recommendations

This article shows that current ethics guidance documents and initiatives for artificial intelligence (AI) tend to be dominated by a principled approach to ethics. Although this brings value to the field, it also entails some risks, especially in relation to the abstraction of this form of ethics that makes it poorly equipped to engage with and address deep socio-political issues and the material impacts of AI. This is particularly problematic considering the risk for AI to further entrench already existing social inequalities and injustices and contribute to environmental damage. To respond to this challenge posed by AI ethics today, this article proposes to complement the existing principled approach with an approach to ethics as attention to context and relations. It does so by drawing from alternative ethical theories to the dominant principled one, especially the ethics of care or other feminist approaches to ethics. Related to this, it encourages the inclusion of social sciences and humanities in the development, deployment and use of AI, as well as in AI ethics discussions and initiatives. This article presents this proposal for an ethics as attention to context and formulates a series of practical recommendations to implement this proposal concretely.

scholarly journals EXPECTATIVAS ACADÉMICAS SEGUNDO O GÉNERO DOS ESTUDANTES PORTUGUESES DO PRIMEIRO ANO DO ENSINO SUPERIOR

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 325
Author(s):  
Alexandra R. Costa ◽  
Alexandra M. Araújo ◽  
Antonio M. Diniz ◽  
Leandro S. Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Parental Education ◽  
First Year ◽  
Academic Expectations ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Education Academic

Abstract:Among the wide range of personal and contextual variables that may be associated with difficulties in students’ access to higher education (HE), academic expectations will be the focus of this study. Academic expectations represent what students hope to accomplish and achieve in their academic life. The sample was formed by 372 first-year Higher Education students, of both sexes, and with ages ranging from 17 to 57 years old. These students completed the Academic Perceptions Questionnaire (QPA), which assesses seven dimensions of academic expectations. Data analysis considers students´ gender, scientific domain of studies (social sciences and humanities, science and technology) and the levels of parental education (parents concluded or not HE studies). Results suggest more differentiation of academic expectations in function of students´ gender and parents´ educational level. This communication presents and discusses these results, and possible justifications and implications.Keywords: Higher Education, Academic Expectations, Gender, Adaptation to Higher EducationResumo:De entre o amplo conjunto de variáveis pessoais e contextuais que poderão estar associadas às dificuldades sentidas pelos estudantes ao ingressarem no ensino superior (ES), as expectativas académicas serão o foco deste estudo. As expectativas académicas representam aquilo que o estudante espera concretizar no decurso da sua vida académica. Este estudo considera uma amostra de 372 estudantes do primeiro ano do Ensino Superior, de ambos os géneros e com idades entre os 17 e os 57 anos. Estes estudantes preencheram o Questionário de Perceções Académicas (QPA), avaliando sete dimensões das expectativas académicas. Os resultados foram analisados considerando o género, a área científica (ciências sociais e humanas; ciências e tecnologias) e se algum dos pais concluiu o ES. As análises sugerem maior diferenciação do nível de expectativas em função do género dos estudantes e se os pais frequentaram ou não o ES. Nesta comunicação apresentam-se e discutem-se estes resultados, adiantando potenciais justificações e implicações.Palavras-chave: Ensino Superior, Expectativas académicas, Género, Adaptação ao Ensino Superior.

scholarly journals Ethics as attention to context: recommendations for the ethics of artificial intelligence

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Anais Resseguier ◽  
Rowena Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Ethical Theories ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Ai Ethics ◽  
Guidance Documents ◽  
Practical Recommendations

This article shows that current ethics guidance documents and initiatives for artificial intelligence (AI) tend to be dominated by a principled approach to ethics. Although this brings value to the field, it also entails some risks, especially in relation to the abstraction of this form of ethics that makes it poorly equipped to engage with and address deep socio-political issues and the material impacts of AI. This is particularly problematic considering the risk for AI to further entrench already existing social inequalities and injustices and contribute to environmental damage. To respond to this challenge posed by AI ethics today, this article proposes to complement the existing principled approach with an approach to ethics as attention to context and relations. It does so by drawing from alternative ethical theories to the dominant principled one, especially the ethics of care or other feminist approaches to ethics. Related to this, it encourages the inclusion of social sciences and humanities in the development, deployment and use of AI, as well as in AI ethics discussions and initiatives. This article presents this proposal for an ethics as attention to context and formulates a series of practical recommendations to implement this proposal concretely.

To Be Human: An Interview with Daniel Chernilo

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 281-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Chernilo ◽  
David Beer
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range

This interview explores the key themes and ideas in Daniel Chernilo’s recent book Debating Humanity: Towards a Philosophical Sociology (2017). It is a hugely ambitious book that tackles a range of questions around the notion of humanity and the category of the human. Drawing on a wide range of thinkers, the book pushes at a number of far-reaching issues, problems and questions concerning humanity. It’s a rich text that develops themes that are likely to be of interest across the social sciences and humanities, not least because it tackles some of the most difficult and crucial questions that face social theory today. The interview was conducted in October 2017.

Radical Islamism as a Mode of Production

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-108
Author(s):  
Masdar Hilmy
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Current Theory ◽  
Production Theory ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Dominant Structure ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Theoretical Paradigms ◽  
Epistemological Basis ◽  
Mode Of Production

This article attempts to provide a breakthrough which I call mode of production theory. This theory will be employed to analyze the contemporary phenomenon of radical Islamism. The mode of production theory is meant to bridge the two clashing theoretical paradigms in social sciences and humanities, i.e., Weberian and Marxian. Despite its bridging nature, the paper argues that the two cannot be merged within one single thread. This is because each paradigm has its own epistemological basis which is irreconcilable to one another. Mostly adapted from Marx’s theory, the current theory of the mode of production covers five interrelated aspects, namely social, political, economic, cultural, and symbolic structures. If Marx’s mode of production theory heavily relies on a material and economic basis, the theory used in this paper accommodates cultural and symbolic structures that are Weberian in nature. Although the two paradigms can operate together, the strength of structure (Marxian) overpowers the strength of culture (Weberian). This paper further argues that such cultural-based aspects as ideology, norms, and values play as mobilizing factors under a big schematic dominant structure in the rise and development of the radical Islamist groups.

Moral Reasoning Among Croatian Students of Different Academic Orientations

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 208
Author(s):  
Andrea Tokić ◽  
Matilda Nikolić
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Moral Reasoning ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Humanities Students ◽  
Health Care Law

Previous studies demonstrated that different academic contexts could have different effects on moral development, i.e. in most cases formal education enhances moral reasoning, but sometime erodes it (for example for medical students). The aim of this study was to examine differences in moral reasoning among students of different academic disciplines (health care, law, social sciences and humanities). In research participated 386 students (Mage=23,12): 154 law students, 55 nursing students, 123 other social sciences students, a 53 humanities students. Participants took Test of Moral Reasoning (TMR) (Proroković, 2016) which measures index of moral reasoning (in range from 0 to 1), and idealistic orientations (humanistic and conservative). The results showed that there was no difference in the moral reasoning index among students of different academic orientations. Furthermore, students of different academic disciplines differed in the humanistic orientation in a way that students of social studies were more humanistically oriented than law students. Some of the possible explanations for the lack of differences with regard to academic orientations is that overall stimulating environment that college provides is perhaps more important for moral reasoning development than specific academic contexts. Findings of this study are consistent with the findings of some of the previous studies.

RETRACTION NOTE: Les structures des phrases dans les tracts du mai 1968

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 00047
Author(s):  
Nokiamy Sesena Tamba ◽  
Myrna Laksman-Huntley
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Background Color ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Analytical Error ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Retracted Article ◽  
Du Mai ◽  
Web Archive ◽  
Digital Press

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px;">As of October 15, 2019, the following article is being retracted from the UGM Digital Press Social Sciences and Humanities series.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-size: 1rem;">“Les structures des phrases dans les tracts du mai 1968” by Nokiamy Sesena Tamba and Myrna Laksman-Huntley, Social Sciences and Humanities Series Vol 3: 00033, Proceeding of Conférence internationale sur le français 2018, Joesana Tjahjani, Merry Andriani, Sajarwa, Wening Udasmoro (eds) DOI:&nbsp;</span><a href="https://doi.org/10.29037/digitalpress.43306" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 1rem;">https://doi.org/10.29037/digitalpress.43306</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px;">The original article is registered through this URL&nbsp;<a href="https://digitalpress.ugm.ac.id/article/306" target="_blank">https://digitalpress.ugm.ac.id/article/306</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px;">as decided by authors and conference organizers on the basis of analytical error. It may encourage potential misleading circulation of information in the future.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px;">On the following exchange of information with the publisher, it has been decided that the article will be retracted.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px;">The retracted article will remain in public domain, that is maintaining its appearance on UGM Digital Press web archive and the Conférence internationale sur le français 2018 printed version. However, it will receive a watermark to accentuate its retracted status.</p>

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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