scholarly journals Introduction

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Nathan Bracher
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Family Stories ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Cultural Networks ◽  
Literary Techniques

This introduction outlines Ivan Jablonka’s theory and practice of writing the social sciences as foregrounded in three of his most noted, recent books, A History of the Grandparents I Never Had, History is a Contemorary Literature, and Laëtitia. As he outlines in his own contribution here, Jablonka advances rigorous, methodical research that nevertheless details the subjective investment of the researcher while at the same time utilizing creative “literary” techniques to engage a wide spectrum of readers well beyond the habitual circles of academic specialists. The essays contributed by Julie Fette, Sarah Fishman, Melanie Hawthorne, Don Reid, and Nathan Bracher explore various facets of Jablonka’s approach, including, respectively: writing history with family stories, resisting the erosion of factual reasoning in the Trump years, pursuing biographies of supposedly non-descript lives, appreciating the importance of Communist cultural networks in postwar France, and revisiting the role of the subject in the social sciences.

Exploring the boundaries of rhetoric

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 793-806 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduard Bonet
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
The Self ◽  
History Of Rhetoric ◽  
Content Type ◽  
History Of ◽  
Practical Development ◽  
The Subject

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how the boundaries of rhetoric have excluded important theoretical and practical subjects and how these subjects are recuperated and extended since the twentieth century. Its purpose is to foster the awareness on emerging new trends of rhetoric. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology is based on an interpretation of the history of rhetoric and on the construction of a conceptual framework of the rhetoric of judgment, which is introduced in this paper. Findings – On the subject of the extension of rhetoric from public speeches to any kinds of persuasive situations, the paper emphasizes some stimulating relationships between the theory of communication and rhetoric. On the exclusion and recuperation of the subject of rhetorical arguments, it presents the changing relationships between rhetoric and dialectics and emphasizes the role of rhetoric in scientific research. On the introduction of rhetoric of judgment and meanings it creates a conceptual framework based on a re-examination of the concept of judgment and the phenomenological foundations of the interpretative methods of social sciences by Alfred Schutz, relating them to symbolic interactionism and theories of the self. Originality/value – The study on the changing boundaries of rhetoric and the introduction of the rhetoric of judgment offers a new view on the present theoretical and practical development of rhetoric, which opens new subjects of research and new fields of applications.

scholarly journals A crise de identidade do museu: Ensaio sobre o “ser ou não ser” dos museus

2014 ◽  
pp. 131-157
Author(s):  
Nilo Cerqueira
Keyword(s):  
Social Role ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Target Image ◽  
Practical Activity ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Guidelines ◽  
Descriptive Knowledge

It is important to museology, museums and especially for visitors to define concepts about the social role of the museum and the museum as an organization. For museums is important from the point of view of its delineations of activity and modes of dialogue. To Museology has value because it gives the mission often propose new guidelines to improve and moments between the museum and society. And finally, for the visitor, it is the reason, the nature of the museum settles. At the headquarters of understanding that this not called. A simple walk in the guideline of the history of advent museum, and you can notice the dissonance between theory, the θεωρία Greek, is the purely rational descriptive knowledge . And the prâxix , 'action' . ] S.f.2 n.1 . Practical activity; action exercise use. In the course of these lines, we note, in the spectrum of branding, the various inconsistencies between theory and practice, the first image and the target image, between the rational and emotional, between being what want to be. Or as the article suggests, between the being or not being of museums.

scholarly journals Historiography within the structure of history of political and legal doctrines: subject field, objectives, tasks, and functions

2020 ◽  
pp. 126-137
Author(s):  
Sergei Vladimirovich Kodan
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Historical Science ◽  
Subject Field ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Scientific Context

The scientific context of studying the historiography of the history of political and legal doctrines is associated with its positioning within the structure of the indicated historical legal science, and represents a challenging problematic that orients the researcher towards understanding the processes of development of this science through the prism of historiography as a reflection of its history. This necessitates to determine the subject field, objectives, tasks, and functions of historiography within the structure of the indicated science, which is the key vector of this research. At the same time, the analysis of these questions leans on universal vision of the development of historiography in the social sciences and humanities. The scientific novelty is defined by the fact that the historiographical problematic in the history of political and legal doctrines is studied insufficiently; therefore, this article is the first attempt to position historiography as a scientific discipline of historical legal trend, and present an original perspective on the topic. Emphasis is placed on examination of the key characteristics of historiography as part of history of political and legal doctrines: subject matter, objectives, tasks, and functions. At the same time, the author relies on the historiographical developments in social sciences and humanities, namely in the historical science, based on which presents an original perspective on the role of historiography as a part of history of political and legal doctrines is.

scholarly journals What did Women do for the Early Church? The Recent History of a Question

2013 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 261-281
Author(s):  
Judith M. Lieu
Keyword(s):  
Social Values ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Church History ◽  
Alternative Conceptions ◽  
Early Church ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

The question posed in the title deliberately reverses one that has accompanied me through my academic career: what did the early church do for women? The reversal signals what will prove to be an underlying theme of what follows, namely the role of women in history as objects or as the subjects of action and of discourse. Yet already the question as conventionally phrased highlights different points of stress that reflect where it belongs within reflective historiography, the subject of this volume. Firstly, ‘What did the early church do?’ The coming of early Christianity, it is implied, brought blessings or perhaps curses, evoking a way of writing church history which goes back to Eusebius and which continues both through Edward Gibbon and through those who still portray the social and religious context of the time as one of the inarticulate search for alternative conceptions of the divine or for alternative social values that Christianity would answer. Secondly, ‘for women’: thus, a deliberate rejection of any universalizing interpretation of such effects; a recognition, or at least a suspicion, that any apparently universalizing claim is actually spoken from a ‘normal’ that is already gendered as male; an invitation to ask how women’s experience could be recovered, what the sources would look like, and, indeed, whether it can be recovered from the extant sources.

Social Science and Ideological Critiques of Ecclesiology

2018 ◽  
pp. 552-572
Author(s):  
Neil Ormerod
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Dietrich Bonhoeffer ◽  
Problematic Relationship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Edward Schillebeeckx ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Human Condition

Theology has long engaged philosophy as a dialogue partner, but the social sciences raise a new set of issues as both theology and the social sciences reflect concretely on the human condition. The problematic relationship between theology and the social sciences is perhaps nowhere more evident than in the area of ecclesiology. Whenever ecclesiology turns from more idealistic ahistorical forms of discourse to deal with the actual context and constitution of historical communities, the role of the social sciences in providing insights into those contexts and constitutions becomes difficult to deny. This chapter seeks to map out some of the history of the engagement with the social sciences by ecclesiologists such as Clodovis Boff, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Edward Schillebeeckx, John Milbank, and Roger Haight, and the challenges that this engagement poses. Underlying this debate are profound theological issues concerning grace and nature.

Narrative thinking and the emergence of postpsychological therapies

2006 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 201-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
John McLeod
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Narrative Therapy ◽  
Psychodynamic Therapy ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Narrative Structures ◽  
Narrative Thinking ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
The Social

The growing emergence of an appreciation of the significance of narrative, within philosophy, the social sciences and the humanities, has had a significant impact on theory and practice within the field of counseling and psychotherapy. The influence of narrative thinking has been felt in two main ways. First, concepts of narrative have been assimilated into established forms of practice. For example, within psychoanalysis and psychodynamic therapy, it is now accepted that attention to narrative structures within the discourse of therapy can be used to generate a fuller understanding of the operation of well-known phenomena such as transference. The primary intention of this area of work has been to utilise narrative concepts to permit a deeper understanding of existing ideas about therapeutic processes and procedures. Second, a quite separate set of developments has seen the construction of an approach to therapy which begins from an acknowledgement of the central role of narrative and storytelling in lives and relationships. This alternative approach, generally described as “narrative therapy”, can be characterised as the formation of a postpsychological approach to therapy, which focuses on issues surrounding the performance of narratives within relationships, community and culture, rather than on inner psychological processes within individuals. It is argued that postpsychological narrative therapies have the potential to address key contemporary personal and social dilemmas in ways that are not possible within individualist models of therapy.

scholarly journals Histories and Historians in Israel & Palestine

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilan Pappe
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Challenging Tasks ◽  
History Of ◽  
Epistemological Understanding ◽  
The One

One of the most obvious reasons why historians — both professional and academic — find it difficult to challenge hegemonic narratives is psychological. No one wants to be a pariah in their own society by running against the mainstream and finding themselves in an isolated position. But I think there’s a deeper level to why historians have found it so difficult (maybe unlike some of their colleagues in the social sciences) to provide narratives which challenge the one which dominates their society’s media, culture and academia. And that reason, I think, is that challenging historiographical mythology is not just about facts, it’s also about rethinking the role of the historian. It is about being able to update oneself on developments in historiography and even (which is perhaps more difficult I think for historians) in philosophy. This focuses the question on what is reality, what is fiction, what is myth, and what is a fact. I found that one of the most challenging tasks in dealing with the history of my own country, both for Jewish and Palestinian historians, was not just to provide a different narrative to the one that prevails, but also to be able to tie in the concrete discussion with a more epistemological understanding of what history is and how history is received by the public at large.

Information, Knowledge, and the Return of Social Physics

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (9) ◽  
pp. 1238-1258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marian T. Adolf ◽  
Nico Stehr
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Early History ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Comprehensive Investigation ◽  
Social Physics ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

The article discusses two vital aspects of the current debate about the societal importance and future role of data, information, and knowledge in the context of social organization, administration, and government. First, it is argued that the debate concerning Big Data suffers from faulty assumptions regarding the societal significance and power of information which needs to be extended to a more comprehensive investigation about the social role of knowledge. Second, the theoretical positions brought forward are illustrated by revisiting an episode from the early history of the social sciences, arguing that misguided ideas about the possibility of “Social Physics” have failed before and are likely to fail again, due to the complexity of social behavior.

scholarly journals Reflections on the Managerial Roles: Past and Present

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 94-106
Author(s):  
V. I. Marshev ◽  
J. B. Otaboev
Keyword(s):  
Growth And Development ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Social Organizations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Managerial Roles ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Public Church

The history of management of various social objects — family, private, public, church, regional, state — has been around for many millennia. And at the same time objectively constantly there were questions “What should heads (managers) of these objects do for ensuring their survival, growth and development?”, “What roles should leaders of social organizations play?”, “What competencies should a leader have in order to effectively and efficiently perform their roles?”. The evolution of views on the role of managers of social organizations from ancient times up today is stated in the paper. There are given results of scientific research on the subject “the role of managers”, which have been revealed the “national”, regional and industrial specific of managerial roles, a completely new role, and above all — the rating of managerial roles at various stages of the social organizations lifecycle.

scholarly journals Niechciane dziedzictwo. Piąty tom „Chłopa polskiego w Europie i Ameryce” a Chicago początku XX wieku

1970 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 87-116
Author(s):  
Piotr Luczys
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Urban Crime ◽  
Main Task ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Urban Transformations ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Point Of Departure

The main task of this text is to present the subject matter of the fifth volume of The Polish Peasant in Europe and America written by W.I. Thomas and F. Znaniecki. In this context, special attention will be paid to the criminal activities of Polish immigrants in Chicago in the first two decades of the 20th century. The point of departure for the reflections is the point of reference to the fragments of the five-book, repeated many times in the literature, which often do not go beyond the first three volumes, and at the same time impose a dominant and schematic interpretation discourse for the whole work. The subsequent parts of the text reconstruct the history of migratory waves coming to Chicago from the end of the 19th century on the basis of ongoing social, industrial and urban transformations, and thus the birth of urban crime. The crime history of Polish immigrants in Chicago allows us to re-examine the work of Thomas and Znaniecki from a different perspective (mainly from American sources), emphasizing at the same time the social conditions of the beginnings and the development of criminal structures in migratory environments, while at the same time drawing attention to this topic, commonly ignored in the history of Thomas and Znaniecki’s work and Polish-American relations. Piotr Luczys, Niechciane dziedzictwo. Piąty tom „Chłopa polskiego w Europie i Ameryce” a Chicago początku XX wieku [An unwanted legacy. The fifth volume of Polish Peasant in Europe and America and Chicago at the beginning of the 20th century] edited by M. Nowak, „Człowiek i Społeczeństwo” vol. XLVII: „Chłop polski w Europie i Ameryce” po stu latach [Polish peasant in Europe and America after one hundred years], Poznań 2019, pp. 87–116, Adam Mickiewicz University. Faculty of Social Sciences Press. ISSN 0239-3271.

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