Equivoci e illusioni su identitŕ e modernizzazione

2012 ◽  
pp. 28-53
Author(s):  
Paolo Vezzoni ◽  
Roberto Vignera
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
The Social ◽  
Common Misconceptions

The theme of identity as a source of representations of self and social relations is at the center of the contemporary sociological debate on dilemmas of modernization and has often been considered as the analytical framework within which such unresolved issues could be caught in their most emblematic profiling. Some of these controversial issues will be taken into account in the present essay through a comparison between the social sciences and the biomolecular sciences perspectives, both increasingly involved in the clarification of the most common misconceptions regarding the immutability of this set of signs and its progressive dissolution.

Sociality, Spirituality, and Meaning Making: Chicago Health, Aging, and Social Relations Study

2005 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
John T. Cacioppo ◽  
Louise C. Hawkley ◽  
Edith M. Rickett ◽  
Christopher M. Masi
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Scientific Theories ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health Aging

Scientific theories in the natural sciences posit invisible forces operating with measurable effects on physical bodies, but the scientific study of invisible forces acting on human bodies has made limited progress. The topics of sociality, spirituality, and meaning making are cases in point. The authors discuss some of the possible reasons for this as well as contemporary developments in the social sciences and neurosciences that may make such study possible and productive.

Managing the Emotions of Competition and Recognition in Academia

2002 ◽  
Vol 50 (2_suppl) ◽  
pp. 113-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Bloch
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Bonds ◽  
Sociology Of Science ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Academic Departments ◽  
Emotional Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
Emotional Dimensions

In the sociology of science, social relations have been discussed in terms of competition and recognition. The purpose of this chapter is to enlarge our understanding of the social relations of Academia by incorporating the emotional dimensions of these relations into our discussion. To this purpose the results of an empirical study of emotions and emotional culture in Academia is presented. These results are based on analytical distinctions between the structural conditions of emotions, the emotional culture of Academia, lived or felt emotions and the management of emotions. Within this analytical framework different ways of managing the emotions of uncertainty, shame, anger and pride are identified and presented. It is shown how these feelings emerged from the structural conditions of the social relations and it is shown how persons try to manage the mentioned emotions according to the tacit rules of feelings of Academia. The study shows how these emotions are managed according to the representative feelings of Academia. It is also shown, however, how these emotions and their management relate to damaged social bonds. These unintended consequences of the emotions and the emotional culture of Academia are interpreted as emotional fuel to the prevalent basic moods of academic departments and their research environment.

Dimensions of Impact in the Social Sciences

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tina Haux
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Impact Pathways ◽  
The Social ◽  
Policy Models ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Research And Policy

Academics are increasingly required to demonstrate their impact on the wider world. The aim of this book is to compare and contextualise the dimensions of impact within the social sciences. Unlike most other studies of the 2014 Research Excellence Framework impact case studies, this book includes case studies from three different sub-panels (Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work and Politics and International Relations), which in themselves capture several disciplines, and therefore allows for a comparison of how impact and academic identify are defined and presented. The impact case studies are placed in an analytical framework that identifies different types of impact and impact pathways and places them in the context of policy models. Finally, it provides a comparison across time based on interviews with Social Policy professors who are looking back over 40 years of being involved as well as analysing the relationship between research and policy-making. This long view highlights successes but also the serendipitous and superficial nature of impact across time.

A Critical Evaluation of the Commodification Thesis

2002 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 525-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin C. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Market Exchange ◽  
Capitalist Production ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Advanced Economies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Structural Shifts

A recurring theme across the social sciences is that non-capitalist production is disappearing albeit slowly and unevenly, and is being replaced by a commodified economy in which goods and services are produced by capitalist firms for a profit under conditions of market exchange. In this paper, however, I evaluate critically this commodification thesis. Even in the heartland of commoditisation – the advanced economies. Large economic spaces are identified where alternative economic relations and motives prevail. Rather than view them as leftovers of pre-capitalist formations, this paper argues that they are the result of both the contradictions inherent in the structural shifts associated with the pursuit of commodification as well as the existence of ‘cultures of resistance’, As such, they are viewed as ‘spaces of hope’ which highlight the demonstrable construction and practice of alternative social relations and logic's of work outside profit-motivated market-oriented exchange.

scholarly journals Notes from a field: A qualitative exploration of human-animal relations in a volunteer shepherding project

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Adams ◽  
James Ormrod ◽  
Sarah Smith
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Animal Interaction ◽  
Qualitative Exploration

There is a burgeoning interest in human–animal relations across the social sciences and humanities, accompanied by an acceptance that nonhuman animals are active participants in countless social relations, worthy of serious and considered empirical exploration. This article, the first of its kind as far as the authors are aware, reports on an ongoing qualitative exploration of an example of contemporary human–animal interaction on the fringes of a British city: volunteer shepherding (‘lookering’). Participants are part of a conservation grazing scheme, a growing phenomenon in recent years that relies on increasingly popular volunteer programmes. The primary volunteer role in such schemes is to spend time outdoors checking the welfare of livestock. The first section of the article summarises developments in more-than-human and multispecies research methodologies, and how the challenges of exploring the non- and more-than-human in particular are being addressed. In the second section, we frame our own approach to a human–animal relation against this emerging literature and detail the practicalities of the methods we used. The third section details some of our findings specifically in terms of what was derived from the peculiarities of our method. A final discussion offers a reflection on some of the methodological and ethical implications of our research, in terms of the question of who benefits and how from this specific instance of human–animal relations, and for the development of methods attuned to human–animal and multispecies relations more generally.

scholarly journals Researching the Dynamics of National Social Policy in a Globalized Society. A Proposal for a De-Nationalized Analytical Framework

2021 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-155
Author(s):  
Erica Righard
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Pension Scheme ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social

Abstract Epistemological hierarchies in the social sciences stipulate that sedentarism is naturalised as a normality, and that mobility is viewed as a deviation. This article sets out to propose an analytical framework that takes the analysis beyond this kind of nationalized knowledge production, and to empirically show the gains of de-nationalized frameworks for analysis of social protection and dynamics of in-/equality in the globalised society. I will do this relying on the empirical example of the public old-age pension scheme in Sweden.

scholarly journals Kontestasi antar orang asli Papua terhadap hak pertuanan di Kaimana

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Cahyo Pamungkas
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
The Political ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The Social ◽  
Customary Rights ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The City

This article is addressed to describe the social relations within the Papuan ethnic groups and between Papua native and migrants concerning some customary rights in Kaimana district. This research describes the struggle of inland and beach tribes in fighting for customary rights of land in Kaimana. Moreover, it captures the respond of migrants in dealing with the customary right. This study shows the recognition of the the eldest ethnic in Kaimana is a strategy and discourse constructed by Papua ethnic groups that have felt marginalized while migrants have taken their resources. This right could be understood as the need for recognition of Papua ethnic groups. The most important issue is not who the native of Kaimana is, but what the proper ways to give recognition to Papua ethnic groups which had been left behind in development are. The relation between the Papua natives and migrants in Kaimana is not complicated as the migrants have no privileges in the political contestation. However, these relationship are affected by the differences in religious affiliations. The Muslim Papua ethnic groups generally have a closer relationship with the Muslim migrants. The analytical framework of this study using the theoretical framework of identity and ethnicity to look at the issue. Does the definition of identity and ethnicity according to sociological theories are still relevant to understanding the issue of claims of ethnic identity in the city of Kaimana.

scholarly journals O fim da teoria: o confronto entre a pesquisa orientada por dados e a pesquisa orientada por hipóteses | The end of theory: the confrontation between data-driven research and hypothesis-driven research

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luís Fernando Sayão ◽  
Luana Farias Sales
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Scientific Method ◽  
Computational Analysis ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
Contemporary Science ◽  
The Social ◽  
Analysis Strategies ◽  
New Knowledge

RESUMO A ciência contemporânea e seus fundamentos metodológicos têm sido impactados pelo fenômeno do big data, que proclama que na era dos dados medidos em petabytes, de supercomputadores e sofisticados algoritmos, o método científico está obsoleto e que as hipóteses e modelos estão superados. As estratégias do big data científico confia em estratégias de análises computacionais de massivas quantidades de dados para revelar correlações, padrões e regras que vão gerar novos conhecimentos, que vão das ciências exatas até as ciências sociais, humanidade e cultura, delineando um arquétipo de ciência orientada por dados. O presente ensaio coloca em pauta as controvérsias em torno da ciência orientada por dados em contraposição à ciência orientada por hipóteses, e analisa alguns dos desdobramentos desse embate epistemológico. Para tal, tomo como metodologia os escritos de alguns autores mais proximamente envolvidos nessa questão.Palavras-chave: Big Data; Método Cientifico; Ciência Orientada por Dados; Ciência Orientada por Hipóteses.ABSTRACT Contemporary science and its methodological foundations have been impacted by the big data phenomenon that proclaims that in the age of data measured in petabytes, supercomputers and sophisticated algorithms the scientific method is obsolete and that the hypotheses and models are outdated.The strategies of the scientific big data rely on computational analysis strategies of massive amounts of data to reveal correlations, patterns and rules that will generate new knowledge, ranging from the exact sciences to the social sciences, humanity and culture, outlining an archetype of data-driven science. The present essay addresses the debates around data-driven science as opposed to hypothesis-oriented science and analyzes some of the ramifications of this epistemological confrontation. For this, the writings of some authors who are more closely involved in this question are taken as methodology.Keywords: Big Data; Scientific Method; Data-Driven Science; Hypothesis-Driven Science.

Fundamentos hobbesianos de la economía moderna. Una aproximación

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Alejandro Pérez y Soto Domínguez ◽  
Katherine Flórez Pinilla ◽  
José M. Carballido Cordero
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Thomas Hobbes ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
Economic Science ◽  
Centralized Control ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual

ResumenEste artículo resultado de investigación, busca introducir al lector en los aportes de Thomas Hobbes a la economía como ciencia. Este filósofo, aunque no figura como un autor relevante en los textos tradicionales de pensamiento económico, logró elaborar de manera sólida numerosos conceptos epistemológicos, antropológicos e institucionales recogidos por varias escuelas, entre las que se encuentran los marxistas, neoclásicos y keynesianos, quienes sustentan en ello el control centralizado de la acción humana. Aunque su trabajo originalmente no tuvo un fin eminentemente económico, es posible establecer cómo sus aportes filosóficos tienen alcances en las ciencias sociales, y en especial en la economía. Sus contribuciones se centraron en las nociones de colectivización del individuo y de la planificación centralizada. Además, Hobbes es, al menos en parte, el inspirador del socialismo como modo de orden social centralizado.Recibido: 20/08/2015   Aceptado: 18/11/2015 AbstractThe present essay is the outcome of a research program, and it aims to present the reader the main contributions of Thomas Hobbes to the economic science. Although this thinker has not been considered a relevant author in the traditional textbooks of economic thought, he nevertheless elaborated numerous solid epistemological, anthropological, and institutional concepts which have been incorporated into the theoretical corpus of several schools of thought, like the Marxist, Neoclassical, and Keynesian, concepts that buttress the idea of the centralized control of human action. Despite the fact that his work was not originally intended to be applied in the economic field, it is plausible to admit that his philosophical contributions have had their significance in the social sciences, especially in economics. In particular, these contributions will focus on the notions of collectivization of the individual and central planning. Hobbes is, at least in part, the inspirer of socialism understood as a form of centralized social order.Received: 20/08/2015  Accepted: 18/11/2015

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