The Social Construction of International Food: A New Research Agenda

The Rural ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 87-106
Author(s):  
A. Arce ◽  
T. K. Marsden
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Research

scholarly journals A Sociology of Foreign Aid and the World Society

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liam Swiss
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
World Society ◽  
World Society Theory ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
New Research ◽  
Society Research

This article highlights an emerging research agenda for the study of foreign aid through a World Society theory lens. First, it briefly summarizes the social scientific literature on aid and sociologists' earlier contributions to this research. Next, it reviews the contours of world society research and the place of aid within this body of literature. Finally, it outlines three emergent threads of research on foreign aid that comprise a new research agenda for the sociology of foreign aid and its role in world society globalization.

Great Debates in Organizational Identity Study

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis A. Gioia ◽  
Aimee L. Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Organizational Identity ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Social Actor ◽  
The Social ◽  
Epistemological Debate

Historically speaking, there have been a number of great debates in the organizational identity literature. Undoubtedly the most basic still is, “Is there such a thing as organizational identity?” This debate might best be characterized as an ontological debate. A second debate has to do with what can be known about the phenomenon. This epistemological debate has pitted various “camps” against each other. The three most prominent camps are the social actor, social construction, and institutional theory views on organizational identity. We suggest a conceptual pathway for reconciling these apparently competing views and furthering the research agenda for organizational identity. This chapter argues that despite the debated differences among these views, each largely depicts identity as “entitative.” Our proposed reconciliation centers on a fourth “processual” view on identity, that is, identity-as-flow.

Catastrophic Climate Risk and Brazilian Amazonian Politics and Policies: A New Research Agenda

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joana Castro Pereira ◽  
Eduardo Viola
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Amazon Rainforest ◽  
Climate Risk ◽  
The Social ◽  
Earth’S Climate ◽  
New Research

Climate and deforestation impacts are jeopardizing the resilience of the Amazon rainforest, one of the key elements in the Earth’s climate system whose dieback may trigger catastrophic climate change. The potential degree of climate risk that the planet is facing, and current Brazilian Amazonian politics and policies, make it alarmingly conceivable that a tipping point will be crossed that leads to savannization of the forest. However, the social science research community has not yet acknowledged this possibility. A timely revision of the research agenda is needed to address this gap.

Through the lens of social capital: a research agenda for studying IT outsourcing

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beena George ◽  
Rudy Hirschheim ◽  
Alexander von Stetten
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Past Research ◽  
It Outsourcing ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Research ◽  
Comprehensive Framework

Purpose – This paper proposes a new research agenda for information technology (IT) outsourcing,motivated by the belief that the social capital concept enables IT outsourcing researchers to capture more of the nuances of the client–vendor relationship in IT outsourcing arrangements. Design/methodology/approach – The paper builds a comprehensive framework of social capital based on Nahapiet and Ghoshal (1998) to examine the IT outsourcing life cycle. Past research on IT outsourcing is examined applying the parameters of the framework to identify issues that have been addressed in research on IT outsourcing and to uncover the gaps in past research. Findings – The social capital framework is applied to IT outsourcing which suggests new avenues for future outsourcing research. Research limitations/implications – While past research has identified success factors for IT outsourcing, a significant number of outsourcing arrangement still fail to meet expectations. The research agenda presented in this paper encourages an examination of IT outsourcing from a different perspective to determine how to successfully manage IT outsourcing. Originality/value – The paper provides a new framework that is useful for identifying the relationships among past research in IT outsourcing as well as for identifying potential topics for future research.

Entrepreneurship as Networking

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Elfring ◽  
Kim Klyver ◽  
Elco van Burg
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Nascent Entrepreneurs ◽  
Action Orientation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dominant Individual ◽  
One Step ◽  
Entrepreneurial Action ◽  
New Research ◽  
Insight Into

This book presents entrepreneurship as networking as a perspective. Persistent problems around the dominant “individual-opportunity” approach in the entrepreneurship field motivated the authors to focus on the social-interactive aspects and action orientation of entrepreneurship. The work promises to address the challenge of providing a more integrated account in which the entrepreneur’s agency is combined with a greater emphasis on the social environment. The importance of social relations and the associated interactions between entrepreneurs and their environment give insight into key entrepreneurial processes. The authors address the guiding questions of what a viable network is for (nascent) entrepreneurs and how networking activities affect their entrepreneurial endeavors. Therefore, they first create a synthesis of key network mechanisms and networking dynamics. This allows them (a) to shed new light on the origins of opportunities and improve understanding of how entrepreneurs access resources and subsequently mobilize and deploy them, and (b) to explain how entrepreneurs build legitimacy, facilitating them to act on perceived new combinations and thereby exploit their potential. Thus, this book highlights how networking is a central constitutive force in entrepreneurship. Previous work showed how networks can or will lead to entrepreneurial action as a facilitator. Going one step further, the authors posit that networking is entrepreneurial action, and entrepreneurial action is networking, thereby opening an entirely new research agenda.

scholarly journals An Example for the Construction of Masculinity in Turkey: The Woman Has No Name

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Cansun Sebnem
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Masculinity Studies ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Male Roles ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
The Social ◽  
Modernization Process ◽  
New Research

In Turkey, the academic works on gender rather focus on Women’s Studies, whilst Masculinity Studies are perceived as a relatively new research field. From this perspective, the aim of this work is to look closely at the social construction of masculinity in Turkey through the feminist author Duygu Asena’s book entitled Kadının adı yok (The woman has no name). This book hit the bookstores in 1987 and had a selling record in Turkey with its forty editions within year. Duygu Asena rather depicts her male characters from a critical perspective. According to her, in the social construction of masculinity in Turkey we see that men use psychological, physical and sexual violence against women. Men criticize women, limit their liberties, beat them at times, have physical intercourse with them without necessarily asking for their consent. Even though in Turkey masculinity is actually getting modernized and we see non-traditional forms of masculinity around, we notice that hegemonic masculinity is getting reproduced in homosocial communities. We can argue that men encounter insecurity in the midst of the modernization process and suffer from the oppression related to the “male roles”. We recommend that there ought to be more contributions on Masculinity Studies in Turkey.

Wargaming as a Methodology: The International Crisis Wargame and Experimental Wargaming

2021 ◽  
pp. 104687812098758 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Schechter ◽  
Jacquelyn Schneider ◽  
Rachael Shaffer
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Experimental Design ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
International Crisis ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
New Research

Background. Wargaming has a long history as a tool for understanding the complexity of conflict. Although wargames have shown their relevance across topics and time, the immersive nature of wargames and the guild-like communities that surround them have often resisted the social scientific advances that occurred alongside the evolution of warfare. However, recent work raises new possibilities for integrating wargaming practices and social scientific methods. Purpose. Develop the experimental wargaming method and practice. Prioritizing the focus on iteration, control, and generalizability within experimental design can provide new opportunities for wargames to answer broader questions about decision-making, crisis behaviors, and patterns of outcomes. Method. The International Crisis Wargame developed in 2018 demonstrates the viability of experimental wargaming, and models the process of theorizing, designing, developing, and executing these wargames. It also identifies what makes games more or less experimental and details how experimental design influenced choices in the game. Conclusion. Experimental wargames are a promising new tool for both the social science and the wargaming communities. A proposed new research agenda for experimental design within wargames would support this nascent method

scholarly journals ‘They go to get a gun’: Hidden histories of violence and the politics of rumour in Israel

2016 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 481-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Una McGahern
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Political Geography ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Distinct Type ◽  
Its Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Linguistic Focus

This article examines rumour as a distinct type of speech act and makes a case for engaging with the spaces within which rumours are deployed and circulated in practice. Critiquing the rigid linguistic focus on speech acts within prevailing securitization theories, it follows insights from the fields of political geography and anthropology in order to incorporate voices from the margins more fully into its analysis of threat construction. Examining the local deployment and circulation of rumours in religiously mixed Arab localities in Israel, it argues that the perlocutionary force of rumour not only is rooted in local security and policing arrangements but reveals a spatialization of violence that is particular to the margins. In so doing, the article seeks to contribute to a broadening of the research agenda on the social construction of threat that would not only bring ‘security have-nots’ to the centre of its analysis but draw attention to the margins as a particular type of security space.

scholarly journals Resistant roots of institutional diversity across societies: An evolutionary framework

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Zitian Chen ◽  
John Cantwell
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Cognitive Schema ◽  
Institutional Diversity ◽  
Human Behaviors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Systematic Understanding ◽  
New Research ◽  
Different Levels

Consisting of formal and informal rules, cultural-cognitive schema, and routinized processes, institutions are the foundation of social life. Yet we do not have a systematic understanding of resistant roots of institutional diversity across societies. Following an evolutionary framework, we review the literature and discuss how a series of mutually exclusive and sequential “replicators” have come to jointly predispose human behaviors. Through social transmission, these replicators form lineages, which contribute to different levels of societies. We suggest that our review can provide a new research agenda regarding human behaviors in the social sciences.

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