scholarly journals SOCIAL KNOWLEDGE: THE AMBIVALENCE OF DEVELOPMENT MODELS

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (31(58)) ◽  
pp. 6-9
Author(s):  
Agamali Kulamovich Mamedov
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Social Knowledge ◽  
Development Models

The article declares the position of dissensus and consensus as basic models for the development of social sciences. The demarcation of natural sciences and social sciences is carried out. Attempts are being made to identify the features of "acceptance" by the scientific community. The article analyzes L. Laudan's concept of consensus in modern social knowledge.

scholarly journals Ferdinand Tönnies és a korai társadalomtudományok, II. rész

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (22) ◽  
pp. 147-155
Author(s):  
Endre Kiss
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Special Theory ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Time Shift ◽  
Theory Of Relativity ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Modern Natural ◽  
The Many ◽  
The 19Th Century

In Tönnies’ interpretation, it must be emphasized that the scientific approach of the society, i.e. the social sciences contain delayed branches. The temporal difference is particularly striking related to the natural sciences and exists permanently in specific features. In the past when the early social scientists appeared natural sciences were already in the most modern phase of their evolution as we experience it even today. We can point out Tönnies’ specific works published in the same year as Einstein’s special theory of relativity. We are currently far away from explaining this time shift. Hypothesizing this, there are two possible reasons. The first one might be the force of attraction of the modern natural sciences, which demonstrated almost every day the effectiveness of its scientific methodology. The „method ideal” of natural sciences was an irresistible magic attraction. The second reason can exist in the new motivations, which might have been triggered by the enlightened, emancipative and already socialist movements in the last third of the 19th century. For pioneers of social sciences, there was no „great theory”. No „normal science” existed since it was during hard labour and no scientific community existed at that time. However, can exist either (on which the many questionings according to the protagonists’ cooperation are really depending). It is also not different with the public and the larger scientific community, that we generally call „audience” („Publikum”). This stipulates, that the protagonists must always play several roles. Whether they want or do not, they must at least unite in themselves the philosopher’s and the scientist’s function. The only thing that exists is the „object”, the society as the new object of science. Their methods should dispose of a theoretical-epistemological dimension so that however this dimension should not be philosophical, should then not refer to general objectivity, but to an already earlier qualified particular objectivity.

When social knowledge turns mathematical – The role of formalisation in the sociology of time

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 247-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ştefania Matei ◽  
Marian Preda
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Temporal Order ◽  
Social Knowledge ◽  
Mathematical Language ◽  
Mathematical Approach ◽  
Epistemic Object

The paper argues that a mathematical approach might contribute to the consolidation of time as an epistemic object, while strengthening the sociology of time as a more influential domain in social sciences. This might be accomplished due to the performative role of mathematical formalisations. Also, it means appropriating the textual reality resulted in formalising processes as a space which researchers act through and upon. Thus, mathematical formalisations should be understood not only as modelling and data processing devices but also as relevant actors in networks of knowledge production. In this context, we reassess the practice of formalisation by proposing a vocabulary through which mathematical language might be used to meaningfully approach the socio-temporal order, with positive consequences in the reinforcement of a scientific community of practice.

scholarly journals Interpretación comprensiva del conocimiento. Comprehensive interpretation of knowledge.

Psicoespacios ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (15) ◽  
pp. 188
Author(s):  
Manuel Antonio Pérez Herrera
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Social Knowledge ◽  
Central Axis ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

Comprehensive interpretation of knowledge.ResumenEn la filosofía contemporánea de las ciencias circulan varios enfoques, métodos y  metodologías; pero entre todos ellos se encuentran muchas diferencias para el abordaje del conocimiento científico y social. En los siglos XVII, XVIII y XIX son innumerables los Métodos y Metodologías rivales de las ciencias; como las reconstrucciones racionales de la historia de la ciencia. Por ello, en este entramado científico de manera crítica propositiva hacemos un esbozo de diversos enfoques epistemológicos, filosóficos e históricos, buscando en ellos encontrar la interpretación y comprensión de la permanencia de la epistemología de las ciencias sociales con relación a las ciencias naturales, dos ejes centrales que abren el debate cognoscitivo sobre dichos conocimientos.Palabras Clave: Enfoques, métodos, metodologías, historia de las ciencias, filosofía de las ciencias. AbstractSeveral focus, methods, and methodologies circulate around the philosophy of sciences. To find out the scientific and social knowledge there are many differences among them. During the XVII, XVIII and XIX centuries some methods and methodologies compete with that of the sciences, among them it is found the rational reconstructions of the history of the science. Due to those reasons, by means of this scientifical net and in a critical and propositional way, we outline the different epistemological, philosophical and historical focus, trying to interpret and comprehend the permanence of the epistemology of the social sciences in relation to the natural sciences, two central axis that open the cognoscitive debate about that knowledge.Key words: focus, methods, methodologies, history of the sciences, philosophy of the sciences.

scholarly journals On the origins of the methodology of social knowledge in Russia: A.S. Lappo-Danilevsky and contemporary discussions

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 354-364
Author(s):  
P. A. Vladimirov ◽  
A. V. Lebedeva
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Social Knowledge ◽  
Historical Reconstruction ◽  
Sociological Knowledge ◽  
Academic Sociology ◽  
Source Studies ◽  
Organizational Activities ◽  
Methodological Principles ◽  
Institutional Foundations

The article considers those aspects of the development of sociological knowledge in Russia that were determined by the scientific and organizational activities of A.S. Lappo-Danilevsky (1863-1919). His contribution to the development of the Russian social and humanitarian thought is associated mainly with the development of the foundations of history, historiography and source studies, which is widely admitted in scientific works. However, Lappo-Danilevskys contribution to the development of sociology, to the identification of the specifics of its subject and to the creation of a model of systemic courses on the historical reconstruction of sociological knowledge are still widely discussed. The authors consider the creative component of Lappo-Danilevskys legacy and the strategy he developed for creating an interdisciplinary methodology for social sciences. The article aims at describing his contribution to the institutionalization of Russian sociology, which allows not only to clarify the origins of social knowledge in Russia, but also to actualize Lappo-Danilevskys legacy. The authors pose new questions and problematize the research potential of the works of Russian scientists at the turn of the 20th century, which has prospects for supplementing the history and methodology of sociology. The description of the activities of Lappo-Danilevsky - from the development of the institutional foundations of Russian sociology to the clarification of the methodological principles of social knowledge - raises the question of the influence of positivism and neo-Kantianism on the scientific community. On the other hand, the study of the scientific and organizational activities of Lappo-Danilevsky allow to expand the field of history and methodology of sociology by supplementing it with a description of the institutionalization of sociology in Russia. The study of the foundations of sociological knowledge emphasizes three points: creation of methodology, separation from related disciplines, and acceptance of the historical component in the development of academic sociology. The article also mentions contemporary discussions which consider the sociological legacy of Lappo-Danilevsky not only as a historical reconstruction of the development of social knowledge, but also in the interdisciplinary perspective of contemporary sociology.

Religion in the Age of the Anthropocene

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arianne F. Conty
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Risks And Benefits ◽  
Human Exceptionalism ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Contemporary Christian ◽  
Genesis 1 ◽  
Forms Of Life

Though responses to the Anthropocene have largely come from the natural and social sciences, religious responses to the Anthropocene have also been gaining momentum and many scholars have been calling for a religious response to complement scientific responses to climate change. Yet because Genesis 1:28 does indeed tell human beings to ‘subdue the earth’ monotheistic religions have often been understood as complicit in the human exceptionalism that is thought to have created the conditions for the Anthropocene. In distinction to such Biblical traditions, indigenous animistic cultures have typically respected all forms of life as ‘persons’ and such traditions have thus become a source of inspiration for ecological movements. After discussing contemporary Christian efforts to integrate the natural sciences and the environment into their responses to the Anthropocene, this article will turn to animism and seek to evaluate the risks and benefits that could ensue from a postmodern form of animism that could provide a necessary postsecular response to the Anthropocene.

Environmental engineering education in conjunction with or as Part of social sciences curricula

2000 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.H. Hahn
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Business Administration ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Environmental Engineering ◽  
Basic Question ◽  
Basic Training ◽  
The University ◽  
Engineering Programme ◽  
Environmental Infrastructure

Traditionally in Germany environmental engineering education took place within the context of a civil engineering programme. There were reasons for this: the beginning of much of what we understand today to be environmental works fell within the parameters of city engineering. There were and are advantages mostly in view of the necessary planning, construction and operation of environmental infrastructure. There are also disadvantages which become more and more pronounced as the field of environmental protection expands: the civil engineer frequently lacks basic training in disciplines such as biology and chemistry and carries a large and sometimes burdensome knowledge of other less relevant subjects. Thus, educators begin to look for alternatives. This paper deals with an alternative that was developed some ten years ago and therefore has proven viable and successful: at the University of Karlsruhe students may choose to major in environmental engineering within the context or on the basis of an economics and business administration curriculum. The basic question here is as to what extent the student masters the field of environmental engineering if he or she has predominantly a solid background in social sciences and very little in natural sciences. The paper will describe the curriculum in structure and intensity and evaluate the accumulated knowledge and suitability of these students in terms of actual environmental problems. This will be done in terms of examination performance parallel and/or relative to traditionally trained civil environmental engineers as well as in terms of topics successfully treated in Masters' theses. In conclusion, it is argued that such combination of curricula should not be confined to economic sciences and environmental engineering but also be planned for legal sciences and environmental engineering.

Defending the Difference

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
True Nature ◽  
Natural Entities ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Methodological Difference ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The One

Dreyfus argues that there is a basic methodological difference between the natural sciences and the social sciences, a difference that derives from the different goals and practices of each. He goes on to argue that being a realist about natural entities is compatible with pluralism or, as he calls it, “plural realism.” If intelligibility is always grounded in our practices, Dreyfus points out, then there is no point of view from which one can ask about or provide an answer to the one true nature of ultimate reality. But that is consistent with believing that the natural sciences can still reveal the way the world is independent of our theories and practices.

Guide to Africa Bibliography

2020 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. xxix-xxx
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Development Studies ◽  
Environmental Sciences ◽  
African Government ◽  
The Social ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Cover Material

This bibliography records publications on Africa of interest to students of Africa, principally in the social and environmental sciences, development studies, humanities and arts. Some items from the medical, biological and natural sciences are included. The criterion used is potential relevance to a reader from a social sciences/arts background. The whole continent and associated islands are covered, with selective coverage of the diaspora. This volume aims to cover material published in 2019 together with items from earlier years not previously listed. The editor is always very glad to hear of any items omitted so that they may be included in future volumes. He would be particularly pleased to receive notification of new periodicals, print or online. African government publications and works of creative literature are not normally listed.

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