scholarly journals Scientific and organizational work of N. Hryhoryiv in the Ukrainian institute of sociological studies in Prague

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (49) ◽  
pp. 77-83
Author(s):  
Olga Sukhobokova
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Social Scientist ◽  
Political Scientist ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
The Usa ◽  
History Of ◽  
Organizational Work ◽  
Civic Science ◽  
Sociological Studies

The article is devoted to the consideration of the scientific-organizational and research activity of the outstanding Ukrainian public-political figure and social scientist Nykyfor Hryhoryiv at the Ukrainian Institute of Sociological Studies (Ukrainian Sociological Institute) in Prague. The role of N. Hryhoryiv in the development of the Іnstitute is significant from its foundation in 1924 and the end of existence in 1938. With Mykyta Shapoval he was one of its founders, as well as one of the leaders and leading researchers. N. Hryhoryiv was a permanent member of the supreme governing body of the Іnstitute – the Сuratorium, he headed it in 1926 and in 1933–1938, he was a director and a scientific council. He solved the administrative and financial problems of the Institute. At the same time, he was the director of the Department of Ethnology and two autonomous institutions of the Institute – the Ukrainian National Museum-Archive and the Ukrainian Workers University. He was also a member of the Department of Sociology and Policy and head of the Study of the Village, held separate courses and a political seminar. At the same time, N. Hryhoryiv showed himself as a scientist – a sociologist and political scientist, an active researcher. During this period, his scientific interests included the theory of the state, the Ukrainian national-state tradition, national sociology, socio-economic history of Ukraine and socio-political movements in Ukraine, the Ukrainian diaspora in the USA and Canada, international relations and the geopolitical role of Ukraine. The work of the scientist in these directions is considered. During his time at the institute he has prepared several dozen of monographs, articles and reports, which are an important contribution to Ukrainian sociological and political science. This study is based on the materials of the so-called Prague Archive, in particular the fund of the Ukrainian Institute for Civic Science. Some archival sources are introduced to scientific circulation for the first time. Keywords: Nykyfor Hryhoryiv, Ukrainian Institute of Sociological Studies in Prague, Ukrainian Sociological Institute in Prague

More Lessons to Learn: Thomas Piketty’s Capital and Ideology and Alternative Archives of Social Experience

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-146
Author(s):  
Andreas Langenohl
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
Democratic Governance ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
Historical Trajectory ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Alternative Archives

Abstract Thomas Piketty’s Capital and Ideology has been written with the intention to offer lessons from the historical trajectory of economic redistribution in societies the world over. Thereby, the book suggests learning from the political-economic history of ‘social-democratic’ policies and societal arrangements. While the data presented speak to the plausibility of looking at social democracy, as understood by Piketty, as an archive for learning about the effects of redistribution mechanisms, I argue that the book, or future interventions might profit from integrating alternative archives. On the one hand, its current line of argumentation tends to underestimate the significance of power relations in the international political economy that continued after formal decolonization, and thus form the flip side of social democracy’s success in Europe and North America. On the other hand, the role of the polity might be imagined in a different and more empowering way, not just-as in Piketty-as an elite-liberal democratic governance institution; for instance, it would be interesting to explore the archive of the French solidaristes movement more deeply than Piketty does, as well as much more recent interventions in economic anthropology that deal with ‘economic citizenship’ in the Global South.

Excavating Women: Towards an Engendered History of Archaeology (1998)

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margarita Díaz-Andreu ◽  
Marie Louise Stig Sørensen
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
History Of Archaeology ◽  
Disciplinary History ◽  
The Usa ◽  
History Of ◽  
Minor Part ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Critical Historiography ◽  
Knowledge Claims

Gender archaeology has by now become a relatively well-established research topic within archaeology. Recent years have seen the publication of a number of edited volumes, a rapidly expanding number of papers, and even a few journals and newsletters dedicated to this subject. It is, therefore, very surprising that in this literature the historiographic analysis of women archaeologists has played only a minor part. Likewise they are hardly acknowledged in the ‘folk’ histories of the discipline (Lucy and Hill 1994: 2). The need to understand the disciplinary integration of women, to appreciate the varying socio-political contexts of their work, to reveal the unique tension between their roles as women and their academic lives, has become obvious and is strongly felt in many areas of the discipline. The insights yielded by such analysis will have significance at many levels and will be of paramount importance for the intellectual history of archaeology. In particular, such insights will necessitate a much-needed revision of disciplinary history by revealing its mechanisms of selecting and forgetting, and will play an important role in the analysis of archaeology’s knowledge claims. Histories of archaeology have broadly accepted, and spread, a perception of archaeology as being male-centred, both intellectually and in practice. These accounts, written by male archaeologists such as Glyn Daniel (1975), Alain Schnapp (1993), and Bruce Trigger (1989), are inevitably androcentric in their conceptualization and reconstruction of the disciplinary past. Their versions have, however, recently begun to be contested, as concern with critical historiography has grown, and a few explicit historiographical accounts of women archaeologists have appeared. So far, with regard to the role of women, the most extensive contributions are the edited volumes by Claassen (1994) and du Cros and Smith (1993). While providing an important beginning, these publications show that there is still a long way to go. In particular they demonstrate a gap in research coverage, as no investigation of the contribution of women outside the USA and Australia exists.

Policy Entrepreneurs and FDI Attraction: Canada’s Auto Industry

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 684-718 ◽  
Author(s):  
GREIG MORDUE
Keyword(s):  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Policy Entrepreneurs ◽  
Multiple Streams ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Assembly Operations ◽  
Fdi Attraction

New perspective is provided on a critical period in the development of the Canadian automotive industry. In the 1980s, five foreign manufacturers built new vehicle assembly operations in Canada, effectively transforming that country’s automotive industry. Drawing from a combination of interviews with key actors and a review of archives, this case study makes several contributions. First, gaps are closed in the economic history of one of Canada’s most important industries. Second, the case demonstrates the capacity of using historical perspective to extend an existing theory to a new area of inquiry. In this case, Multiple Streams Theory is employed to explain the process of inward FDI attraction. This includes a description of the role of policy entrepreneurs and their capacity to create and exploit opportunities. Third, the case demonstrates the continuing relevance of integrating historical perspective to contemporary issues in business, management, and public policy.

Cracking the Code: Narrative and Political Mobilization in the Greek Resistance

1992 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 631-667 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Hart
Keyword(s):  
Political Mobilization ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Political Scientist ◽  
Peloponnesian War ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
Material Costs ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
History Of

That narrative can be more than a mechanical recitation of events is epitomized in Thucydides’ challenge to historiographical paradigms current during the fifth century B.C. In his definitive history of the war between Athens and Sparta, the Athenian general in effect tells a “story” with a beginning, middle, and end. Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian War is anything but a neutral description of events. Instead, the collection interprets the conflict for the reader. The tale contains a discussion of the role of alternative military strategies and of the war’s wider political implications. According to Thucydides, the fractionization and polarization engendered by war as a mode of resolving political conflicts is too high a price to pay for victors and losers alike. Thucydides warns of psychic as well as material costs. Thus, the ancient political scientist tells the story of the Peloponnesian War to assert that the “sequences of real events be assessed as to their significance as elements of a moral drama” (White 1987: 21).

In the Russians’ steppes: the introduction of Russian wheat on the Great Plains of the United States of America

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Moon
Keyword(s):  
Great Plains ◽  
Economic History ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Market ◽  
Department Of Agriculture ◽  
Wheat Varieties ◽  
Russian Agriculture ◽  
The Usa ◽  
History Of ◽  
Global Exchange

AbstractIn the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, wheat varieties from the Russian steppes were introduced on the Great Plains of the USA, a region with a similar environment. The introduction was partly a by-product of the migration of German farmers from the steppes to the Great Plains in the 1870s. The US Department of Agriculture, eager to promote American wheat production in a competitive world market for grain in which Russia was in the lead, sought out wheat varieties on the steppes that were suitable for the Great Plains. Russian wheat varieties became mainstays on the Great Plains for the next few decades, while Russian agriculture declined under Soviet power. On the basis of research on both sides of the Atlantic, this article sheds light on an important aspect of the global exchange of peoples and crops that has shaped the agricultural and economic history of societies around the world since the invention of agriculture.

scholarly journals Harsh discipline and readiness for interpersonal aggression in Poland and the USA: the mediating role of sensitivity to provocations and frustrations

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 543-554
Author(s):  
Monika Dominiak-Kochanek ◽  
Karolina Konopka ◽  
Mary Bower-Russa ◽  
Adam Frączek
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Emotional Reaction ◽  
Physical Punishment ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Psychological Aggression ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Harsh Parenting ◽  
The Usa ◽  
History Of

Abstract This study examined the effect of history of harsh parenting on readiness for aggression in young adults testing the mediating effect of emotional reaction to frustration and provocation that is assumed to arise in the context of a history of physical punishment and psychological aggression. Data were collected from 402 participants including 187 Poles (Mage = 9.5; SD = 1.2) and 215 Americans (Mage = 19.16, SD = 1.15). Participants reported retrospectively on corporal punishment and psychological aggression experienced during childhood. Based on self-report instruments, sensitivity to provocation and frustration and three patterns of readiness for aggression in adulthood were assessed. Contrary to the US sample, sensitivity to provocation and frustration were mediators in the Polish sample alone. The important role of contextual factors that define harsh parenting circumstances, such as cultural context and sex of the parent, are discussed.

scholarly journals Economic History or History of Economics? A Review Essay on Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius

2012 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Orley Ashenfelter
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
Economic History ◽  
General View ◽  
History Of Economics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Or History

In this essay, I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius. I describe how the book is an economic history of the period 1850–1950, with distinguished economists' stories inserted in appropriate places. Nasar's goal is to show how economists work, but also to show that they are people too—with more than enough warts and foibles to show they are human! I contrast the general view of the role of economics in Grand Pursuit with Robert Heilbroner's remarkably different conception in The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers. I also discuss more generally the question of why economists might be interested in their history at all. (JEL B10, B20, B30, N00)

scholarly journals Assuming the Role of an Orientalist: Alexander Mishulin’s Articles about the History of the Ancient East

2021 ◽  
Vol 163 (3) ◽  
pp. 41-54
Author(s):  
S.B. Krikh ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
School Textbook ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Common Basis ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ancient States

The popular articles written by A.V. Mishulin (1901–1948), a Soviet historian of antiquity, were analyzed. These articles are focused on the history and culture of the Ancient East states (Egypt, India, and China) with account of their impact on the establishment of Soviet historical science. Their role in A.V. Mishulin’s research activity is very important, because they were used in his school textbook of ancient history. A.V. Mishulin consistently adhered to the idea that slavery was a common basis of all ancient states, but he also believed that the slave-owning systems in the Ancient East and Greco-Roman world were different. Through a brief description of the Ancient East states, he emphasized the following two main aspects: all ancient societies exploited slaves, which inevitably resulted in the mass uprisings as a consequence of exhaustion of the slave-owning mode of production. To prove the validity of his ideas, A.V. Mishulin used historical material (such as the Papyrus Leiden). Therefore, the history of the Ancient East and Greco-Roman world more or less correlated with each other in A.V. Mishulin’s school textbook, which influenced the subsequent organization of school textbooks of history in the Soviet Union.

scholarly journals Dove va la storia economica? Metodi e prospettive. Secc. XIII-XVIII – Where is Economic History Going? Methods and Prospects from the 13th to the 18th Centuries

2011 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Economic History ◽  
General Context ◽  
Economic Science ◽  
Current State ◽  
Industrial Age ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
Over Time

The book proposes to take stock of the situation of the studies of economic history of the pre-industrial age, in an attempt to grasp what – in the current state of European research – is the cultural scope and role of the discipline among the many specialisations of history and economic science. It analyses the different approaches that have characterised the various European historiography schools over time, as well as the evolution and prospects of directions of research; it reflects on the analysis of the sources, the methods that are at the basis of their use, and the interpretative questions that they pose for the academic. Finally it proposes the inclusion of economic history within the more general context of research, through an interdisciplinary comparison between the method proper to this discipline and that of other economic and social sciences.

Academician Sitaryan. Create the future for today

2020 ◽  
pp. 159-188
Author(s):  
Yu.V. Yakutin
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Economic Reform ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Soviet Economy ◽  
Active Participant ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
History Of ◽  
Reform Processes ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

On the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Free Economic Society — VEO of Russia, is preparing a series of articles devoted to members of the academy who actively collaborated with VEO. Academician Sitaryan S.A. entered the economic history of Russia both as a prominent theoretical scientist, and as a talented organizer of economic reform processes, and as an active participant in the life of VEO. The article analyzes the scientific views of Academician S. Sitaryan on the problems of reforming the Soviet economy, starting with the «kosygin reform» and up to the reform of the late 80s of the twentieth century. The role of academician S. Sitaryan is revealed. in approving value categories in the practice of managing the national economy. The contribution of S. Sitaryan to the theory of analysis of macro- and microeconomic processes is shown; organization and assessment of the effectiveness of foreign economic relations; building rational and optimal budgetary relations between the center and the regions.

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