Victor Karady et Peter Tibor Nagy, Sociology in Hungary. A Social, Political and Institutional History | Adela Hîncu et Victor Karady (éd.), Social Sciences in the Other Europe since 1945

Using as the example of the pilgrimage to Sabarimala (Kerala, South India), I propose here to explore the links existing between sources, research hypothesis and research theory in social sciences. The choice of research materials in the process of investigation, sources of knowledge about the studied object, is not mere random sampling; it is processed in accordance with the questions of the researcher. It inevitably assumes a selective dimension. After a critical reading of the sources used by Indian studies, I will highlight on the connections between the sources and the methodological tools on the one hand, and the major research hypothesis about pilgrimage on the other. The links between the data taken from the field and the legitimacy of scientific discourse on India will be examined at the end before providing some keys for the interpretation of Sabarimala phenomenon in South India during the contemporary period.

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Planning with Semi-input-output Method with Empirical Application to Nigeria. By Arie Kuyvenhoven. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Social Sciences Division. 1978. xi + 266 pp.

The Pakistan Development Review ◽

10.30541/v19i3pp.247-249 ◽

1980 ◽

Vol 19 (3) ◽

pp. 247-249

Author(s):

A. R. Kemal

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Developing Countries ◽

Final Demand ◽

The Other ◽

Production Structure ◽

Input Output ◽

Output Analysis ◽

Input Output Analysis ◽

Comparative Cost ◽

Planning Models

Input -output analysis is being widely used in developing countries for planning purposes. For a given level of final demand, input-output analysis allows us to project the required level of gross output to ensure consistency of plan. These projections are made on the assumption that the existing production structure is optimal and it implies that an increase in demand will be met through the expansion of domestic output even when it can be satisfied through an increase in imports. On the other hand, according to the semi-input-output method, we do not have to increase the output of international sectors in order to meet the increase in demand because the level and composition of these activities should be determined by comparative- cost considerations. These are the only national sectors in which output must increase in order to avoid shortage. The semi-input -output method has been such a useful and important contribution, yet, regrettably, its influence on the planning models had been rather limited.

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Editorial

INTERdisciplina ◽

10.22201/ceiich.24485705e.2018.16.65632 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 (16) ◽

pp. 11

Author(s):

Andrea Meza Torres

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Theoretical Perspective ◽

Interreligious Dialogue ◽

The Other ◽

Intercultural Dialogue ◽

Enrique Dussel ◽

Point Of Departure

The essays in this dossier are the result of the course “Interreligious and intercultural dialogue from a decolonial perspective”, which took place between May and June 2017 at the CEIICH in the UNAM. In this course, I proposed to link a decolonial theoretical perspective to the topic of “intercultural dialogue” and, beyond, to “interreligious dialogue”; anyhow, this last topic turned out to be the point of departure to explore more profound dialogues, linked no only to religious phenomena but to sacred traditions and spiritualities. During the course, emphasis was put on this last aspect due to the fact that the topic of “the Divine” (in its different expressions), although central to decoloniality, has been poorly studied. Moreover, it has been marginalized within secularized social sciences —and this not just in Mexico, but in most occidentalized universities throughout the globe. This vacuum towards the study of “the Divine” —and, beyond, its limitation through a concept of culture (which is, at the same time, associated to the colonized and to the “other” of modernity)— led the participants of this volume to research deeper that which philosopher Enrique Dussel has described as the “spaces denied and oppressed by modernity”.

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Higher Education and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)—Potential Contribution of the Undergraduate Courses of the School of Social Sciences of the University of Évora

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13041828 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 1828

Author(s):

Elisa Chaleta ◽

Margarida Saraiva ◽

Fátima Leal ◽

Isabel Fialho ◽

António Borralho

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Economic Growth ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Sustainable Development Goals ◽

Quality Education ◽

The Other ◽

Potential Contribution ◽

Decent Work ◽

Development Goals ◽

The University

In this work we analyzed the mapping of Sustainable Development Goals in the curricular units of the undergraduate courses of the School of Social Sciences at the University of Évora. Of a total of 449 curricular units, only 374 had students enrolled in 2020/2021. The data presented refer to the 187 course units that had Sustainable Development Goals in addition to SDG4 (Quality Education) assigned to all the course units. Considering the set of curricular units, the results showed that the most mentioned objectives were those related to Gender Equality (SDG 5), Reduced Inequalities (SDG 10), Decent Work and Economic Growth (SDG 8) and Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions (SDG 16). Regarding the differences between the departments, which are also distinct scientific areas, we have observed that the Departments of Economics and Management had more objectives related to labor and economic growth, while the other departments mentioned more objectives related to inequalities, gender or other.

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Benson and Miller in Perspective

Social Science History ◽

10.1017/s0145553200022999 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 3 (3-4) ◽

pp. 242-244 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Bruce Kuklick

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Social Policy ◽

Applied Science ◽

The Other ◽

Social Knowledge ◽

The Past ◽

The Social ◽

The World ◽

The One ◽

Stock Of Knowledge

Despite differences in coloration Miller and Benson are birds of a feather. Although he is no Pollyanna, Miller believes that there has been a modest and decent series of advances in the social sciences and that the most conscientious, diligent, and intelligent researchers will continue to add to this stock of knowledge. Benson is much more pessimistic about the achievements of yesterday and today but, in turn, offers us the hope of a far brighter tomorrow. Miller explains Benson’s hyperbolic views about the past and future by distinguishing between pure and applied science and by pointing out Benson’s naivete about politics: the itch to understand the world is different from the one to make it better; and, Miller says, because Benson sees that we have not made things better, he should not assume we do not know more about them; Benson ought to realize, Miller adds, that the way politicians translate basic social knowledge into social policy need not bring about rational or desirable results. On the other side, Benson sees more clearly than Miller that the development of science has always been intimately intertwined with the control of the environment and the amelioration of the human estate.

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Cosmopolitical and Biopolitical Aesthetics as Philosophical Approaches to Art Education

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education ◽

10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.013.1436 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Modesta Di Paola

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Philosophy Of Education ◽

The Other ◽

Mutual Understanding ◽

Human Beings ◽

Philosophical Concept ◽

Real Condition ◽

Social Growth ◽

Critical History ◽

Common World

Cosmopolitanism is an ancient idea with a wide theoretical and critical history. Scholars across the humanities and social sciences have been examining the meaning and trajectories of this concept, showing how it spotlights ways in which people can move beyond mutual understanding and cooperation. However, cosmopolitanism does not have to refer to a transcendental ideal but rather to the material and real condition of global interdependencies. Cosmopolitanism has been connected to the philosophical concept of “becoming-world,” which develops this idea in the context of plural and ecological societies. Under this approach, cosmopolitanism turns into cosmo-politics, which fuses notions of educational and cultural creativity. From the philosophy of education and artistic education in particular, cosmopolitics seeks to outline the advances of new creative educational theories, which center on globalization, hospitality ethics, politics of inclusion, and the ecological connection between human beings and ecosystems; overall, this concept reveals the possibilities for moral, political, and social growth in the encounter with the other (human and natural). Cosmopolitics is, therefore, associated with the idea of educating with creativity, even proposing the elaboration of new pedagogical methods. Here, cosmopolitics has arisen as a crucial artistic educational orientation toward reimagining, appreciating, and learning from our common world.

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The Other Sex Work

10.5771/9783828877290 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Nora Winter ◽

Morgaine Struve

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Grounded Theory ◽

Discourse Analysis ◽

Social Norms ◽

Sex Work ◽

The Other ◽

Constructivist Grounded Theory ◽

Study Analysis ◽

Case Study Analysis

This work is a case study analysis of the contemporary feminist academic pornography discourse. Based on two academic articles, two competing discourses are identified and examined using constructivist grounded theory and discourse analysis. This clash of discourses is traced back firstly to changing social norms on sexuality: Older generations, who still inhabit most positions of power within academia, are largely still representing restrictive attitudes on what constitutes “acceptable” sexualities. Secondly, research conventions within the humanities and social sciences have changed to defy easy explanations. Pornography researchers are therefore forced to choose between conforming to prevalent sexuality norms or research conventions.

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Experiment

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199368815.013.16 ◽

2016 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Uljana Feest ◽

Friedrich Steinle

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Causal Inference ◽

Experimental Research ◽

The Other ◽

Dynamic Processes ◽

Philosophical Work ◽

Entity Realism ◽

Experimental Systems ◽

The World

The authors provide an overview of philosophical discussions about the roles of experiment in science. First, they cover two approaches that took shape under the heading of “new experimentalism” in the 1980s and 1990s. One approach was primarily concerned with questions about entity realism, robustness, and epistemological strategies. The other has focused on exploratory experiments and the dynamic processes of experimental research as such, highlighting its iterative nature and drawing out the ways in which such research is grounded in experimental systems, concepts and operational definitions. Second, the authors look at more recent philosophical work on the epistemology of causal inference, in particular highlighting discussions in the philosophy of the behavioral and social sciences, concerning the extrapolation from laboratory contexts to the world.

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China's Universities since Tiananmen: A Critical Assessment

The China Quarterly ◽

10.1017/s0305741000029696 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 134 ◽

pp. 291-309 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Ruth Hayhoe

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Economic Development ◽

Technological Development ◽

Critical Assessment ◽

The Other ◽

Western Countries ◽

Western Influences ◽

The One ◽

Considerable Support ◽

Scientific And Technological Development

China's present leadership sees universities as being of key importance for the country's economic development and for its relationship with Western countries. This is a kind of two-edged sword. On the one hand, considerable support and encouragement for scientific and technological development is provided, together with pressures for scientific findings to be applied to specific economic development needs. On the other, the reflective and theoretical social sciences and the humanities are being purged of Western influences in efforts to mobilize all resources against what is seen as the Western strategy of fostering “peaceful evolution” towards capitalism. The kinds of tension that arise out of this highly contradictory situation are severe.

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Pragmatisme og "practice turn"

Slagmark - Tidsskrift for idéhistorie ◽

10.7146/sl.v0i64.104110 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 43-61

Author(s):

Antje Gimmler

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

John Dewey ◽

Social Scientist ◽

The Other ◽

Production Of Knowledge ◽

The Social ◽

Practice Turn ◽

Understanding Of Science ◽

The One ◽

Philosophical Pragmatism

Practices are of central relevance both to philosophical pragmatism and to the recent ‘Practice Turn’ in social sciences and philosophy. However, what counts as practices and how practices and knowledge are combined or intertwine varies in the different approaches of pragmatism and those theories that are covered by the umbrella term ‘Practice Turn’. The paper tries to show that the pragmatism of John Dewey is able to offer both a more precise and a more radical understanding of practices than the recent ‘Practice Turn’ allows for. The paper on the one hand highlights what pragmatism has to offer to the practice turn in order to clarify the notion of practice. On the other hand the paper claims that a pragmatism inspired by Dewey actually interprets ‘practices’ more radically than most of the other approaches and furthermore promotes an understanding of science that combines nonrepresentationalism and anti-foundationalism with an involvement of the philosopher or the social scientist in the production of knowledge, things and technologies.

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