scholarly journals A Duet on Engagement: Challenges and Dilemmas of the Researcher of Ethnicities in Poland in the Early 1990s

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-118
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Warmińska ◽  
Ewa Michna
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Research Experiences ◽  
The Social

This article is a retrospective look at the research experiences of the two authors, who began their study of ethnic issues in Poland at the beginning of the 1990s. They discuss the place and role of the anthropologist in the research process, the social and political context of activities in the field, the researcher’s position in relation to the research subjects, power relations, positioning, and the prevailing forms of discourse. Their aim is to show the challenges and dilemmas facing a researcher of ethnic minorities, with the necessity of choosing a strategy of engagement or distance and the consequences of that choice.

scholarly journals Toward a fannish methodology: Affect as an asset

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Hansal ◽  
Marianne Gunderson
Keyword(s):  
Critical Role ◽  
Affect Theory ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Fan Studies ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Research Experiences ◽  
The Social ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Good Research

Fan studies is a multifaceted discipline that developed from widely different fields of research, resulting in a great variety of methodological approaches. A recurring issue in discussions on methodology in fan studies is the tension between the researchers' attachment to the phenomenon they are studying and the more detached, critical role of a researcher. The double position as both a participant in and observer of the communities that they are researching has led to valuable discussions about reflexivity and positionality in fan studies methodologies. Indeed, the double position of fan and researcher can inform and enrich research by bringing fannish practices and sensibilities to research projects. This tension between attachment to and detachment from the field influences the research process, leading to ethical challenges that acafans must face as a result of their dual positionality. Drawing on affect theory, and reflecting on our own research experiences from an autoethnographic perspective, we show how fannish attachment to the subject-object of study can be a driving force—a resource rather than an impediment to good research. An affective turn in methodology could improve knowledge not only within the field of fan studies but in the social sciences in general.

scholarly journals SOCIAL NEUROCOGNITIVE ANALYSIS ON THE FAMILY ROLE IN FORMING A LESBIAN MINDSET

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 316-326
Author(s):  
Ambar Sulianti ◽  
Jamilah Laela Apriyani ◽  
Dadang Sahroni ◽  
Wida Adila ◽  
Yiyin Karlina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Family Role ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Lesbian Community ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Close Family

Motivation/Background: The formation of a lesbian mindset does not happen immediately. This study aims to explore the process of family roles experienced by research subjects who have a lesbian sexual orientation even though it is not accordance with their religion. Method: The research method used was a qualitative research of phenomenology in two subjects who had lived lesbian sexual orientation for more than 2 years with different backgrounds. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was conducted to analyze the role of the family as a model, how the subject perceives the stimulus, direct or indirect environmental contributions, and how close family experiences form a lesbian mindset about the subject. Results: The results of this study indicate the subject "I" had a model of his father's behavior and reinforces the general perception of his mother that men had bad behavior. The social Environment made the subject felt ostracized and entered the domain of the lesbian community who can accept the subject with the circumstances as she was without much demand. A female friend in this environment became modes and informants experienced being lesbian. Meanwhile, "R" was growing psychologically with a style of parenting that is too spoiled by her mother and got a model and informants experienced from her older sister. Conclusions: Both subjects get different experiences in the process of forming a lesbian mindset. From a neurocognitive social perspective, the formation of a lesbian mindset is very complex. Neurocognitive response of the experience of getting too many rough touches or too long getting a hug of comfort, both can trigger perceptions that supported by the environment will form a lesbian mindset.

Maps, Power, and the Pacification of La Araucanía-Chile, 1850–1900

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Azócar Fernández ◽  
Zenobio Saldivia Maldonado
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Critical Cartography ◽  
History Of Cartography ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The 19Th Century

In the history of cartography and in critical cartography, there is a link between the role of maps and power relations, especially during the conquest and domination of territories by national states. Such cartographic products have frequently been used—for both their scientific and persuasive content—in different places, such as in Chile in the Araucanía region during the so-called pacification process, led by the Chilean state during the second half of the 19th century. From a cartographic perspective, the “epistemological and unintentional silences on the maps” can be observed for maps produced during this process. It implied that the “scientific discourse” and the “social and political discourse” of the cartographic images generated during this process of conquest and domination were relevant for the expansionist objectives of the Republic of Chile.

The Politics of Next Generation Research Democratizing Research-Centred Computational Networks

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
William H Dutton
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Institutional Control ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relative Neglect ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Support Research

Research on information technology has been focused primarily on the worlds of IT and management systems for business and government to the relative neglect of research on the digital and institutional infrastructures that underpin the research enterprise itself. When digital research is studied, the emphasis has been on the diffusion of technological innovations, rather than the social and political dynamics shaping the design and role of technologies in research. However, what researchers know, and with whom they collaborate, could be transformed through the strategic use of advances designed to support research, defined here as ‘research-centred computational networks’. This article presents a framework for conceptualizing the social and technological choices shaping the next generation of research in ways that could open – democratize – key aspects of the research process that move well beyond academic publication. The framework highlights the limited scope of innovation to date, and identifies a variety of factors that maintain and enhance institutional control over the research process, at the risk of losing the creative and productive bottom-up participation by networked researchers and citizen researchers among the public at large. Conceptualizing, prioritizing and advancing study of next generation research is one of the most significant but difficult challenges facing scholars of information technology.

scholarly journals Frank Plumpton Ramsey and the Politics of Motherhood

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soroush Marouzi
Keyword(s):  
Financial Support ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Economic Independence ◽  
Freudian Psychoanalysis ◽  
Positive View ◽  
Economic Significance ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
The Social ◽  
Intellectual Movements

This paper is an attempt to historicize Frank Plumpton Ramsey’s Apostle talks delivered from 1923 to 1925 within the social and political context of the time. In his talks, Ramsey discusses socialism, psychoanalysis, and feminism. Ramsey’s views on these three intellectual movements were inter-connected, and they all contributed to his take on the then policy debates on the role of women in economy. Drawing on some archival materials, biographical facts, and the historiographical literature on the early inter-war politics of motherhood, I show that Ramsey held a positive view of the feminist campaign for family endowment. He demanded government financial support for motherhood in recognition of the economic significance of women’s domestic works and as what could bring economic independence to them. In addition, he found such economic scheme compatible with the kind of maternalism endorsed by Freudian psychoanalysis – his favorite theory of psychology.

Structuralism

2019 ◽  
pp. 73-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Brückner
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Newly Industrialized Countries ◽  
Power Resources ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Capitalist World Economy ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
International Power

Structuralist transformation approaches were first developed by neo-Marxist critics dissatisfied with classic modernization theory. Rather than assuming a universal path to democracy that all countries eventually follow, structuralist explanations view democratization as merely one possible outcome of more fundamental changes in a society’s class and power relations. After discussing Barrington Moore’s early attempt to identify the social origins of dictatorship and democracy, this chapter turns to the role of the state and international power relations. World-system and dependency theory link the emergence of bureaucratic-authoritarian regimes in newly industrialized countries to their late integration into the capitalist world economy. Dependent development changes the nature of class relations and the outlook of the bourgeoisie thereby hampering democracy. Yet the chapter continues to show that the final push for democratic inclusion has typically been by the working class. Finally, a synthesis of different structuralist arguments and Vanhanen’s Index of Power Resources are presented.

scholarly journals The monthly magazine «Praca Kobiet» about the activities of organizations related to the Women’s International Democratic Federation (March – December 1946)

2019 ◽  
pp. 71-83
Author(s):  
Adam Miodowski
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Classical Method ◽  
Research Process ◽  
World War ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Basic Source ◽  
Methods Analytical

The research on women’s history presented in this publication supplements the gap existing in polish historiography. The gap includes not only knowledge about the activities of women's organizations associated in the Women’s International Democratic Federation (including the polish Social-Civic League of Women). The same applies to the assessment of the role of women in political, social and cultural changes taking place in Poland (and in the world) in the first years after the end of World War II. The main purpose of this publication is to show the historical conditions of the activities of the Social-Civic League of Women, as well as similar organizations in other European, African and North American countries. The basic source used in the research process is the monthly «Praca Kobiet» (and additionally the periodical «Nasza Praca»). The work uses a methodology typical for studies based on press sources. Their list includes the following methods: analytical-empirical, deductive-nomological, deductive-hypothetical and classical method of content analysis. The effect of the undertaken research is to establish that the information articles on the activities of organizations associated in the Women’s International Democratic Federation published on the pages of the «Praca Kobiet» monthly were in fact agitation and propaganda. The polish feminist press manipulated facts and thus influenced the formation of pro-communist and anti-Western views of women. The topic is not exhausted and needs to be continued. Further research will require a wider use of press sources not only from Poland, but also from other countries.

scholarly journals About the rights with which we are born: The radical natural law and the social justice from K. Marx up to neoliberalism

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-174
Author(s):  
Todor Kuljic
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Natural Law ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Legal Norm ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The Social ◽  
Hierarchical Position

The natural law is a overempiric law that does not owe his dignity to the legal norm than to the intrinsic qualities of a human being. This paper presents a different hierarchical position of the natural law in the critics of capitalism from K. Marx to our days and its different intonation as a superpositive framework of justice. One should analytically differentiate between (1) theoretical search for social justice in the philosophy of the natural law (K.Marx, M.Weber, G.Radbruch, L.Strauss, E.Bloch, Lj.Tadic) and (2) empirical identification of power relations that allowed or hindered social justice in the reality. The paper provides analysis of historically different relationships between positive and radical natural law in both the compressed 20th century epochal conscience and today?s neoliberal one. In addition, it compares role of the natural law in capitalism and socialism and differentiates between social justice from above and social justice from below. The first one is gratuitous, paternalistic and limited, the second one is radical and has to be conquered. Radical natural law should express itself as a fully developed social justice liberated from capitalism. Critic of social unjustice from the viewpoint of natural law has no practical effects in our days, and in spite of it, it is not anachronistic.

Managing Complexity and Institutionalization

2005 ◽  
pp. 160-175
Author(s):  
Brian Corbitt ◽  
Konrad Peszynski ◽  
Olaf Boon
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Erp Implementation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Managing Complexity ◽  
Administrative Tasks

This chapter reports a case study of ERP implementation in an institution of higher education. The ERP is one based on integration of administrative tasks based on Oracle® systems and is successful both in terms of its embeddedness in institutionalized practice and in supporting that university’s operations. The key issue that emerged from the study showed that understanding complexity, institutionalized practice, and the power relations in existence enable the implementation to be more effective, as it can be managed when understood. The chapter argues that organizations reproduce practice and that an ERP challenges that. To deal with that challenge, social dramas emerge wherever power exists, and the resulting conflicts challenge the effectiveness of the systems put in place. In this case study, the key role of the project champion in resolving the social dramas became evident.

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