scholarly journals Pekerjaan Sosial Sebagai Disiplin Ilmu dan Profesi

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 38-46
Author(s):  
Adi Fahrudin
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Applied Social Science

Social work is an academic discipline and practice -based profession. As an academic discipline, social work is supported by theories derived from social work itself, social sciences and other relevant sciences. This confirm that social work is an applied social science that is at once a profession. To be considered a profession that social work should be practiced. Therefore, social work not only studied as an academic discipline but must be practiced. Practice without based on academic disciplines not directed and could be fraudulent, academic disciplines without practice is nothing more than discourse.

scholarly journals Abundant Publications but Minuscule Impact: The Irrelevance of Academic Accounting Research on Practice and the Profession

Publications ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Kym Fraser ◽  
Benedict Sheehy
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Real World ◽  
Government Funding ◽  
The Other ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Accounting Research ◽  
Current State ◽  
Practical Usefulness ◽  
Applied Social Science ◽  
Applied Fields

Criticism about the practical usefulness of academic accounting research produced in university business schools has been growing for some time. Due to accounting being an applied social science, many stakeholders question the relevance and value of research published in accounting journals to the accounting profession, practitioners and society in general. This paper highlights the various areas of criticism and discusses factors which underline the issue. While most of the criticism is anecdotal, this study sets about to empirically explore practitioners’ perception of academia, and research published in academic accounting journals. To better understand the situation in accounting, a comparison of two other applied academic disciplines is undertaken, involving medical and engineering practitioners. The study found that for accounting there were major differences in the sourcing of information, and significant differences between the other two applied fields with respect to the utilisation and the need for academic material. The findings lead to the conclusion that academic accounting researchers are now nearly totally divorced from the real-world profession of accounting. If we were to take a singular view on the purpose of academic accounting research, then the current situation could leave accounting researchers very vulnerable to adverse decisions with respect to the allocation of future government funding. The conclusions of this paper propose a series of thought-provoking questions about the current state of accounting research, in the hope that it will stimulate debate and generate responses from the accounting community and other stakeholders.

Grade Expectations as a Function of Sex, Academic Discipline, and Sex of Instructor

1977 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 380-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Cole ◽  
Kraig King ◽  
Andrew Newcomb
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Women Students ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
College Experience ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Introductory Courses ◽  
The Social ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Very High

Twelve hundred and fifty college students starting introductory courses in thirteen academic disciplines were asked to predict their grade in the course. Results showed that overall, males predicted higher grades for themselves than did females ( p < .001). This held true for entering freshmen as well as for those with previous college experience. The phenomena was noted in 26 of 37 classes tested, including 7 of 9 in the natural sciences, 11 of 13 in the social sciences, but only 8 of 15 in the humanities. Sex of the instructor was irrelevant, raising the question of whether female instructors as role models have the positive effect upon women students that has been claimed. The differences found were slight, but persistent. Both sexes predicted very high grades. The data suggest that sex differences in prediction were not based on a female sense of incompetence, but upon a greater willingness among males to make highly positive predictions.

Integrating the Social Sciences

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Calhoun
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Academic Departments ◽  
World War ◽  
Intellectual Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
Applied Social Science ◽  
Oriented Research

Distinctions among social science disciplines are historically forged and to some extent intellectually arbitrary. Connecting them is therefore crucial to fully addressing many important intellectual and practical concerns. This chapter analyzes three of the most important movements to shape interdisciplinary social science since World War II: area studies, quantitative methods, and problem-oriented research. All three were influenced by funding, by social change, and by desires to make knowledge practically useful. All three influenced basic as well as applied social science. And all three remained approaches that crosscut the disciplinary structure of social science rather than becoming the bases for new disciplines or academic departments. They remain important in themselves and as exemplars of interdisciplinary intellectual work and influence.

Responsibility and Mental Health

Philosophy ◽  
1962 ◽  
Vol 37 (140) ◽  
pp. 165-175
Author(s):  
H. D. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Systematic Investigation ◽  
Additional Weight ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject

This book by Dr Barbara Wootton (now Baroness Wootton) has already been widely acclaimed as an exceptionally shrewd and timely assessment of the methods and achievements of the social sciences today. She herself has much experience of social work and of the systematic investigation of social problems. She believes in social science and expects a great deal from it. This lends additional weight to the critical side of her work. Her strictures, although sometimes severe, are not those of the hostile critic out from the start to demolish and discredit. Her concern is plainly to see the subject established on as firm a basis as possible and set on a course which will give it the maximum usefulness.

scholarly journals A Corpus-Based Analysis of the Lexical and Grammatical Properties of Arabic Abstracts in Social Sciences Articles

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alaa’ Mohammad Smadi
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
The Body ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Past Tense ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
The Past ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Quantitative Results

This study aims to analyze quantitatively and quantitatively Arabic journal articles’ abstracts written within the field of social sciences. It mainly aims to analyze the lexical and grammatical qualities of the abstracts in the five academic disciplines; Economy, Geography, Psychology, Sociology, and Law,. To achieve the goal of the study, a corpus consisting of 500,000 words was collected from various well-known Arabic journals, and then it was divided into five sub-corpora each of which represented one academic discipline. The Corpus Linguistics approach was applied to this study and the data were analyzed through using WordSmith tools (version 0.7). The quantitative results show that the abstracts in all disciplines show a similar word mean length, i.e. all of them is around (5). Qualitatively speaking, the results show that each discipline has its list of lexical words that are suitable for each discipline's genre. The results also reveal a small amount of variation in terms of the tense of the reporting verbs specifically those which are used in the introductory part of the abstracts. However, the reporting verbs used in the body and the concluding parts of all abstracts are characterized by the past tense, third person, and active voice.

scholarly journals Trust, Transparency and Transnational Lessons from COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (12) ◽  
pp. 607
Author(s):  
Alistair Cole ◽  
Julien S. Baker ◽  
Dionysios Stivas
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
International Health ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Health Security ◽  
Global Commons ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries

The article engages in an exercise in reflexivity around trust and the COVID-19 pandemic. Common understandings of trust are mapped out across disciplinary boundaries and discussed in the cognitive fields in the medical and social sciences. While contexts matter in terms of the understandings and uses made of concepts such as trust and transparency, comparison across academic disciplines and experiences drawn from country experiences allows general propositions to be formulated for further exploration. International health crises require efforts to rebuild trust, understood in a multidisciplinary sense as a relationship based on trusteeship, in the sense of mutual obligations in a global commons, where trust is a key public good. The most effective responses in a pandemic are joined up ones, where individuals (responsible for following guidelines) trust intermediaries (health professionals) and are receptive to messages (nudges) from the relevant governmental authorities. Hence, the distinction between hard medical and soft social science blurs when patients and citizens are required to be active participants in combatting the virus. Building on the diagnosis of a crisis of trust (in the field of health security and across multiple layers of governance), the article renews with calls to restore trust by enhancing transparency.

scholarly journals Systematic Literature Searching in Social Work: A Practical Guide With Database Appraisal

2021 ◽  
pp. 104973152098685
Author(s):  
Katheryn Margaret Pascoe ◽  
Bethany Waterhouse-Bradley ◽  
Tony McGinn
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Services ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Social Science Citation Index ◽  
Literature Searching ◽  
Practical Guide ◽  
Performance Trends ◽  
Applied Social Science

Context: In response to the growth of evidence-based practice in social work, systematic literature reviews offer significant value to social work but are often met with concerns of time scarcity. Purpose: Through a case study search strategy addressing the research question “What are practicing frontline social workers’ experiences of bureaucracy?,” this article seeks to promote efficiency by providing a practical guide for conducting systematic literature searches and an appraisal of database performance in qualitative social work research. Method: The total citations, unique hits, sensitivity, and precision for each database were calculated before conducting a cross-study comparison with three previously published social work systematic searches to identify emerging performance trends. Results/Conclusion: Relying on a single database is subject to bias and will not provide comprehensive or sensitive findings; however, due to consistent high performance across four systematic searches, Applied Social Science Index and Abstracts, Social Services Abstracts, and Social Science Citation Index are recommended for future literature searching in social work.

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