A Brief Overview of the Current Status of Religiousness and Spirituality in the Social Sciences

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Ralph L. Piedmont ◽  
Teresa A. Wilkins
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Current Status ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals Assessing Interdisciplinary Research in the Social Sciences: Are we on the right track?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Eykens
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Research Assessment ◽  
Seven Principles ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Right

In this chapter we first discuss how interdisciplinarity is perceived in research policy making and in applied bibliometric research. We put forward a processual view on disciplines and interdisciplinarity in the social sciences which emphasizes the changing nature of disciplines and the heterogeneity of individual fields. This view challenges the current status quo in the development of bibliometric indicators as well as qualitative research assessment exercises. We propose a stance in which the focus is shifted to the changing dynamics of the social sciences in order to develop a better understanding of interdisciplinarity. We point out that the cognitive and socio-cultural diversity of disciplines makes it difficult to transfer current disciplinary peer review practices to the evaluation of interdisciplinarity. We reiterate seven principles proposed by Klein which might guide more appropriate evaluation practices suitable for the assessment of interdisciplinarity in the social sciences.

scholarly journals The Innovation Process of Teaching Methods Specialized in Universities of Social Studies in Vietnam – Current Situation and Solution

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 868-875
Author(s):  
Nguyen Van Hiep, Pham Ngoc Tram, Ngo Minh Sang
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
System Structure ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Traditional Teaching ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Traditional Teaching Methods

Innovating university teaching methods in social sciences and humanities is an issue that is always concerned and posed under many different angles at each time and society's requirements. With the historical approach, the system-structure approach, the article analyzes and assesses the current status of teaching methods in social sciences and humanities at university level in Vietnam. On that basis, the article suggests a few solutions to innovate teaching methods such as: renewing faculty thinking in an open direction and approaching advanced teaching methods, improving traditional teaching methods, combine a variety of teaching methods, apply problem-solving teaching, increase the rational use of teaching facilities and information technology to support teaching in the social sciences and humanities university literature in Vietnam.

Research Methods in the Social Sciences: An A-Z of key concepts

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Quantitative Research Methods ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Key Concepts

Research Methods in the Social Sciences features chapters that cover a wide range of concepts, methods, and theories. Each chapter begins with an introduction to a method, using real-world examples from a wide range of academic disciplines, before discussing the benefits and limitations of the approach, its current status in academic practice, and finally providing tips and advice on when and how to apply the method in research. The text covers both well-established concepts and emerging ideas, such as big data and network analysis, for qualitative and quantitative research methods.

scholarly journals Open text editing tools for open scholarly communications

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Wilm
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Review Process ◽  
Peer Review Process ◽  
Integrated System ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Social ◽  
Scholarly Communications

Scholarly communication is undergoing a revolution with the move to open access. This has opened new opportunities and also new challenges. One of the most problematic issues are the costs of publishing. Some of this may be excessive profits of some publishers, but another part are actual costs associated with typesetting and document conversion.In 2012, the open source Fidus Writer editor was born with the vision of creating a fully web-based semantic editor for academics that would not require manual typesetting after the authors are finished with their text. Since 2015 the GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and University of Bonn have been working on the “Open Scholarly Communications in the Social Sciences” project. The project is financed by the German Research Foundation, DFG, and it has been enhancing Fidus Writer and connecting it with a number of other tools, such as citation databases for automatic citation retrieval and the Open Journals Systems (OJS) to offer an integrated peer-review process. The aim is to create a fully integrated system for social Scientists and others that does away with conversion steps and makes scientific text creation both less costly and improves the tools available, also for non-technically inclined users.While several other projects have come into being simultaneously with Fidus Writer, their focus has been somewhat different: ShareLatex/Overleaf have focused on LaTeX users and is therefore not suitable for scientists who do not code. Other editors are either not open source, not working as collaborative editors or do not provide the tools needed by humanists and social scientists.We have written several papers collaboratively using our combined tool that have been submitted and published and are now working with two journals to obtain real-world experience using Fidus Writer with social scientists in the journal peer review process. In this poster I would like to present the current status of our tool and project.

An Undergraduate Nanotechnology Course for Classes of Multi-discipline students in Taiwan

2006 ◽  
Vol 931 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chu Shiang Chen ◽  
Song Shiang Lin
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Smart Systems ◽  
The Social ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Nano Science

ABSTRACTWe reported on our experiences with teaching several semesters of undergraduate nanotechnology courses at both the National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) and National Dong Hwa University (NDHU) in Taiwan. Students who were enrolled in our classes at NTHU represented many different disciplines, but mainly in the physical sciences, engineering and life sciences. In contrast, students who were enrolled in our classes at NDHU dominated in the social sciences and arts. There were some interesting differences in addition to the similarities in their attitude toward the nanotechnology. Since this course is aimed at introducing the nanotechnology to students trained in different disciplines, we emphasized the fundamentals, current status, potential applications, and possible consequences of nanotechnology. This course also explored the close ties between nano-science and engineering (NS/E) and our daily life. Furthermore, this course elaborated on the interrelationships of NS/E with other subjects, particularly the biomimetics, smart systems, and biotechnology.

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.

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