Using Grounded Theory to Develop a Framework for an Information Society in Southern Africa

2020 ◽  
pp. 159-191
Author(s):  
Martin Collin Abner Mmapeteke Sehlapelo
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
Information Sciences

Grounded theory has not been widely used in the information sciences, despite it being one of the methods or designs employed for generating theories in the humanities and social sciences. However, with the increase in research that aims to generate information science theories, more researchers and students are exploring the use of grounded theory methods to conduct their studies. This chapter intends to simplify the conceptualisation and application of grounded theory methods for research within the information sciences. It discusses its origins, philosophical groundings and assumptions, as well as its methodological approaches. The chapter describes the foundations of the grounded theory methods providing some insights into some of the methodological approaches through an example study that constructed a theoretical framework for building information societies for development in Southern Africa. This chapter enhances the example with the practical lessons that the author learned in the conduct of the study.

Myth and Ethics in Business

2001 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 575-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aviva Geva
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Business Ethics ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Revolving Door ◽  
Real Case ◽  
Ethical Aspect ◽  
Rational Thinking ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
And Function

Abstract:Business myth is generally treated in business ethics literature as a mental obstacle that must be removed in order to prepare the ground for rational thinking on the ethical aspect of business conduct. This approach, which focuses on the content of myth, does not explicate the nature and function of myth. Based on the study of myth in the fields of humanities and social sciences, this paper develops a theoretical framework and analytical tool—the revolving-door model—for researching myth in business. The proposed framework (1) offers new perspectives on myth: the consumer’s, the producer’s, the mythologist’s, and the ethicist’s; (2) explicates various distortion mechanisms of the myth; and (3) enables a redefinition of the relation of business myth to business ethics. The applicability of this framework is demonstrated by means of a real case which sets the stage for examining a set of common myths.

Directory of Current Research on Southern Africa

1979 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 66-72
Author(s):  
J. M. D. Crossey
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
New Haven ◽  
Preliminary Version ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences

This directory is a revision and updating of two earlier publications issued in limited numbers in xerox form, “A Select Register of Current and Recently Completed Research on South Africa in the Humanities and Social Sciences,” (New Haven, CT, 1977) and “Inventory of Current Research on Southern Africa” (2nd Preliminary version. New Haven, CT, 1977. Plus “Supplement,” Jan. 1978).

scholarly journals Romance, reverence, research, rights: Writing about elephant hunting and management in southern Africa, c.1830s to 2008

Koedoe ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Carruthers
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Animal Cognition ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Scientific Texts ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
New Research ◽  
Changing Attitudes

The protection and management of large mammals in Africa’s national parks is not a matter to be left solely for the attention of natural science and scientists. The way in which the natural world is conceptualised by the humanities and social sciences is also significant, because nature is cultural as well as scientific. This article is an interdisciplinary appraisal of the manner in which the writing (e.g. discourse, vocabulary) about elephants in various literary and scientific texts has altered over time. It aims to provide an analysis of some of the literature about elephants in order to examine literate society’s changing responses to the hunting and management of elephants in southern Africa over the past two centuries. The review suggests that new research questions regarding animal cognition and empathy have been generated by these changing attitudes, in conjunction with fresh directions in ecological understanding.Conservation implications: Biodiversity conservation is an inexact science, and even the distinction between conservation research and conservation management is not clear-cut. Moreover, a degree of emotion is evident in scientific and popular discussions around what should be ‘saved’ and how best this might be achieved. Nature is cultural as well as scientific and interdisciplinary insights from the humanities and social sciences may beneficially inform protected area management.

scholarly journals From the levels of memory to their info-technicist unfolding in the information society

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mardochée Ogécime ◽  
Rubens Alves da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Economic Transition ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
The Social ◽  
Human Material ◽  
The Subject

The present article consists of analyzing memory levels from the perspective of Assmann (2008). From a systematic review on the subject, is instituted a vision on the dimension of internal (neuronal), social and cultural memory in the human, material and immaterial relations between groups. A theoretical-analytic dialogue with History, Sociology, Anthropology, Social Psychology, Information Science and other areas of the Social Sciences is undertaken, which are presented not in a watertight manner, but which participate in the analysis of this polysemic object, formed not in the abstraction of the norm, but intertwined with the worlds of people and social dynamics. Next, the level of the cultural dimension of memory is related to the categories of the information society in its triple immersion: as an economic transition, political project and social norms, to discuss the technical dimension of memory whose modern tendency is characterized by the use / use and hyper-industrialization of 'mnemonic technology' for the performance and development of individuals, organizations and societies.

Is Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Academia an Elusive Dream?

2017 ◽  
pp. 139-147
Author(s):  
Linda L. Lillard
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Working Definition ◽  
Simple Rules ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaborations ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
Definition Of

A description of how interdisciplinary collaboration can take place is presented to frame this chapter on the risks and barriers to interdisciplinary collaboration. Beginning with a working definition of interdisciplinary collaboration, defined as jointly co-authoring a paper, academic project, or grant with somebody from another discipline or jointly creating a program that contains courses from the joint collaborators' disciplines, this chapter reviews recommendations for creating and supporting successful interdisciplinary collaborations. Included are ten simple rules for successful cross-disciplinary collaborations put together by a group of researchers in the sciences, who more often participate in interdisciplinary collaborations than do their counterparts in the humanities and social sciences. The chapter closes with the case of issues with interdisciplinary collaboration in library and information science, an area that is truly interdisciplinary, yet often becomes the object of turf battles with other academic areas. This case provides a true-life look at just how attempts at interdisciplinary collaboration that should work, can easily backfire.

Concepts of Originality in the Natural Science, Medical, and Engineering Disciplines: An Analysis of Research Proposals

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 915-937 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Barlösius
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Abstract Section ◽  
Fields Of Study ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
Reference Citation

Science is fundamentally devoted to generating original knowledge, and therefore concepts of scientific originality are keys to understanding its very essence. Scientific originality has long been thought of as discovery, but new studies of the humanities and social sciences have shown that other, discipline-specific concepts of originality are used in these fields of study. Does this finding also hold for disciplines in the natural science, medicine, and engineering? Are concepts of originality scientifically grounded or do they instead reflect extrascientific modes of originality? These questions lie at the heart of research proposals responding to an initiative explicitly calling for original scientific projects. The proposals undergo a two-step analysis based on grounded theory[Per style, reference citation is not allowed in abstract section. Hence, we have deleted Charmaz, 2006. Please approve.]. First, three empirically identified modes of scientific originality are described: temporal, partially different, and revolutionary. The three modes of originality are consistent with extrascientific ones such as those in art and fashion. Second, six disciplines—two each in the natural science, medical, and engineering—are analyzed for ways the three modes of originality are used and for their associated disciplinary characteristics in order to identify discipline-specific concepts of originality.

scholarly journals Epistemologia społeczna dla nauki o informacji

2013 ◽  
Vol 51 (1(101)) ◽  
pp. 4-19
Author(s):  
Jadwiga Woźniak-Kasperek
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Epistemology ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Social Good ◽  
Information Practice ◽  
Original Concept

The author recalls Jesse Shera’s concept of a social epistemology. She discusses the need of its modification, referring to current works of social sciences, in particular enrichment of the original concept with an anthropological element, what is reasoned in an analysis of science as a “social good practice”. Discussion on social epistemology’s application in developing theoretical framework of information science is preceded by reflections on poor relations of qualified LIS research with library and information practice.

Information Models of Man in Contexts of Information Society: Theoretical and Strategic Perspectives

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jela Steinerová
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
Information Models

Over the last decades information and knowledge have become global and traditional disciplines of humanities and social sciences have searched for new methodological models related to knowledge and information. Based on information science as social science I would like to investigate the role of human beings in creation, communication and use of information. Information problems of people are complex real-life problems which need new methods...

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