Wife-Battering: Cultural Contexts Versus Western Social Sciences

2019 ◽  
pp. 229-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacquelyn C. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Wife Battering

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Michael Spitzer
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Musical Style ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
History Of ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Musical Emotion

The introduction asks the important question of why music studies have been left behind by the affective turn informing the humanities and social sciences. It outlines the main themes explored by the book’s nine chapters, and contextualizes the book within the author’s long-running development of a concept of musical style. The broad aim is to tell a history both of musical emotion across a thousand years of European music; and to unfold the genealogies of individual emotions, including emotions embedded within specific historical and socio-cultural contexts. The introduction also disposes of some early objections to writing a history of musical emotion. And it frames the enterprise within the resurgence of interest in Charles Darwin and of the impact of biology over the humanities.

Knowing Through Tripping: A Performative Praxis for Co-Constructing Knowledge as a Disabled Halfie

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vandana Chaudhry
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Critical Ethnography ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Constructing Knowledge ◽  
Disability Research

This article reflects on a performative praxis entailing cultural, symbolic, embodied, and political processes involved in negotiating difference and sameness from the perspective of doing disability research in India as a disabled “halfie.” Based on my own disability experience that disrupted binaries between insider and outsider, I argue that researchers’ disability identities themselves may not be sufficient for becoming an insider to the disability community, due to varying intersectional and cultural contexts. Exposing inadequacies of the liberal disability studies methodology in the social sciences, I draw from critical qualitative methods rooted in performative, postcolonial, and critical ethnography to address questions of positionality and reflexivity, facilitating similitude and knowledge production.

Defending Reason

Beyond Reason ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 52-84
Author(s):  
Sanjay Seth
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
John Rawls ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Culturally Specific ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Modern Knowledge ◽  
Way Of Knowing

This chapter provides a postcolonial critique of those defenders of a universal and singular Reason who, forced to acknowledge that modern knowledge has been shaped by its historical and cultural contexts, nonetheless seek to provide reasons why the presuppositions undergirding the social sciences have a claim to transhistorical and transcultural validity. Engaging in detail with the defenses of Reason mounted by Jürgen Habermas, Karl-Otto Apel, and John Rawls, it argues that these are not persuasive because they presuppose that which they seek to validate or “ground.” It concludes that modern knowledge is a historically and culturally specific way of knowing and being in the world, that there are good reasons to doubt that it transcends these particularities, and that while modern Western knowledge has become global, that does not validate the claim that it is universal.

scholarly journals Interest, Burnout, and Drop-Out Intentions Among Finnish and Danish Humanities and Social Sciences PhD. Students

10.28945/4867 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 593-609
Author(s):  
Solveig Cornér ◽  
Kirsi Pyhältö ◽  
Jouni A Peltonen ◽  
Erika Löfström
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Drop Out ◽  
Dropping Out ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Personal Interest ◽  
Doctoral Studies ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Individual Variations ◽  
Interest Profile

Aim/Purpose: This study focused on advancing understanding of individual variations in doctoral students’ interest in their doctoral studies and how they related to experiences of burnout and drop-out intentions in Denmark and Finland. Background: Ph.D. students’ experiences of interest, burnout, and dropout intentions among Finnish and Danish Ph.D. students have not been researched before. Research with a person-centred approach exploring individual variations in students undertaking doctoral studies in two comparable but distinct socio-cultural contexts is limited. Methodology: This study uses exploratory factor analysis, K-means cluster analyses in combination with Pairwise comparisons, ANOVA, and Chi-square test. A total of 365 doctoral students in social sciences and humanities disciplines in Finland and Denmark responded to a Cross-Cultural Doctoral Experience Survey. Contribution: This study contributes understanding on individual variation in doctoral students’ interest across two socio-cultural contexts by identifying four personal interest profiles. The profiles were invariant across the contexts. The study also shed further light on the interrelation between the interest in research and the risk for suffering from burnout and entertaining dropout intentions. Findings: The interest profiles identified among the Ph.D. students were the High interest profile, the Moderate interest profile, the Developmental, research and impact interest profile, and the Development and impact interest profile. All interest profiles exhibited high levels of the developmental interest, however they varied especially in the weight given to instrumental and research interests. Ph.D. students in the Moderate interest profile showed signs of burnout, and they were prone to consider dropping out. Also, individuals in the Development and impact interest profile considered more frequently dropping out of their studies. Recommendations for Practitioners: Investing in the identification and support of interest among Ph.D. students is worthwhile, as interest is not a permanent characteristic of the individual, and the combination of research, development, and impact interest indicates a lower risk for burnout and drop-out intentions. Recommendation for Researchers: It is possible that interest profiles are the same across the two national contexts investigated in this study, but their underpinnings and premises are different. It is likely that a qualitative approach would shed more light on these foci. Impact on Society: The results imply that personal interest was not determined by the socio-cultural differences between the countries, indicating that cultivating doctoral students’ personal interest, particularly a combination of research, development, and impact, provides a potential buffer for doctoral students’ burnout and drop-out, which has been raised as global concerns among policy makers, researchers, and doctoral education developers and administrators during the past decade. The study has impact on doctoral studies in international communities. Future Research: The results in this study reflect specific characteristics of social sciences and their applied nature. It remains for future research to investigate the extent to which the identified four profiles of interest in relation to burnout and drop-out intentions emerge in the natural sciences.

scholarly journals Temas y métodos de investigación en Ciencia de la Información, 2000-2019. Revisión bibliográfica

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesús Tramullas
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Numerical Methods ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
The Core ◽  
Revisión Sistemática ◽  
Methods And Techniques

A systematic literature review is carried out, detailing the research topics and the methods and techniques used in information science in studies published between 2000 and 2019. The results obtained allow us to affirm that there is no consensus on the core topics of information science, as these evolve and change dynamically in relation to other disciplines, and with the dominant social and cultural contexts. With regard to the research methods and techniques, it can be stated that they have mostly been adopted from social sciences, with the addition of numerical methods, especially in the fields of bibliometric and scientometric research. Resumen Se realiza una revisión sistemática de bibliografía que analiza los temas de investigación y los métodos y técnicas utilizados en la Ciencia de la Información que han sido recogidos en revisiones y estudios publicados entre 2000 y 2019. Se han revisado 36 trabajos. Según los resultados obtenidos no hay un consenso sobre los temas nucleares de la disciplina, ya que éstos evolucionan y cambian dinámicamente en relación con otras disciplinas y con los contextos sociales y culturales dominantes. En relación con los métodos y técnicas de investigación, puede afirmase que en su mayoría han sido adoptados del campo de las ciencias sociales, a los que hay que añadir los métodos numéricos, especialmente en las áreas de bibliometría e informetría.

What Can We Learn From Factorial Surveys About Human Behavior?

Methodology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Knut Petzold ◽  
Tobias Wolbring
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Actual Behavior ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Factorial Survey ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Intended Behavior ◽  
The Social ◽  
Survey Experiments ◽  
High Level

Abstract. Factorial survey experiments are increasingly used in the social sciences to investigate behavioral intentions. The measurement of self-reported behavioral intentions with factorial survey experiments frequently assumes that the determinants of intended behavior affect actual behavior in a similar way. We critically investigate this fundamental assumption using the misdirected email technique. Student participants of a survey were randomly assigned to a field experiment or a survey experiment. The email informs the recipient about the reception of a scholarship with varying stakes (full-time vs. book) and recipient’s names (German vs. Arabic). In the survey experiment, respondents saw an image of the same email. This validation design ensured a high level of correspondence between units, settings, and treatments across both studies. Results reveal that while the frequencies of self-reported intentions and actual behavior deviate, treatments show similar relative effects. Hence, although further research on this topic is needed, this study suggests that determinants of behavior might be inferred from behavioral intentions measured with survey experiments.

Developing an interface between engineering and the social sciences: An interdisciplinary team approach to solving societal problems.

1975 ◽  
Vol 30 (11) ◽  
pp. 1067-1071 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Bruce Walsh ◽  
George L. Smith ◽  
Manuel London
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Interdisciplinary Team ◽  
Team Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Societal Problems
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