Aufbruch zur Demokratie

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Strong Evidence ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Popular Sovereignty ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Academic Fields ◽  
The Social ◽  
Election System ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Economic Foundations

The Weimar Constitution marked Germany’s first sortie into democracy, with the Republic intended to be democratic, humane and constitutional and based on the principle of popular sovereignty. However, its election system of proportional representation favoured small parties and impeded the formation of a government, with its final governments being presidential cabinets. Constitutions are often analysed by various academic fields. While philosophy and historiography set the framework for this analysis, constitutional law may be regarded as the principal discipline in this regard. The social sciences are first and foremost concerned with constitutional reality, and there is indeed strong evidence that it was the Weimar Republic’s lack of socio-economic foundations that ultimately caused its demise. This volume is divided into twelve parts (perspectives) and will appeal to readers interested in politics, law, (contemporary) history, sociology and philosophy. With contributions by Stefan Bajohr, Wolfgang Bergem, Sabine Berghahn, Ursula Büttner, Norbert Campagna, Wolfgang Elz, Heiner Fechner, Helmut Gebhardt, Michael Geistlinger, Christoph Gusy, Volker Haug, Franz Hederer, Tobias Herbst, Peter Hilpold, Marcus Höreth, Ernst-Ulrich Huster, Eckhard Jesse, Herbert Kalb, Daniel-Erasmus Khan, Franz Kohout, Skadi Siiri Krause, Volker Kruse, Stefan Kutzner, Hans-Joachim Lauth, Oliver Lembcke, Matthias Lemke, Thomas Leuerer, Josef Marko, Reinhard Mehring, Martin H.W. Möllers, Martin Morlok, Robert Chr. van Ooyen, Martin Otto, Jürgen Pirker, Monika Polzin, Emanuel Richter, Claus von Rosen, Frank Schale, Stephanie Schiedermair, Theo Schiller, Kamila Staudigl-Ciechowicz, Stefan Storr, Heinz-Elmar Tenorth, Lars Viellechner, Rüdiger Voigt, Christian Waldhoff, Heinrich de Wall und Anita Ziegerhofer.

The Neglect of the Republic of Vietnam in the American Historical Memory

2020 ◽  
pp. 173-178
Author(s):  
Nu-Anh Tran
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Intellectual Freedom ◽  
The Social ◽  
Diasporic Community ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Vietnamese Studies ◽  
Important Kind

This chapter explains the neglect of the Republic of Vietnam in the American historical memory. It makes a personal appeal to the diasporic community for help in addressing this problem. Echoing the volume's view about the importance of memories, the chapter urges everyone who lived under the Republic of Vietnam to write memoirs, to grant interviews, and to share their memories. The most important kind of help from the community, the chapter argues, is to provide primary sources for historians. In addition, the chapter contends that the community should support Vietnamese studies, value the humanities and the social sciences as possible careers for their children, and support intellectual freedom.

scholarly journals Whither development studies? Reflections on its relationship with social policy

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Copestake
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
International Development ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Development Studies ◽  
Academic Fields ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Evolving System ◽  
The Uk

This paper contributes to an ongoing conversation between development studies (DS) and social policy (SP) as academic fields, particularly in the UK. Using Andrew Abbott's analysis of the social sciences as an evolving system of knowledge lineages (KLs), it reflects on the status of DS and its relationship with SP. Defining DS as a distinctive KL centred on critical analysis of ideas and projects for advancing human well-being, I suggest that it has lost coherence even as research into international development thrives. Indeed it is easy to envisage its gradual assimilation into other KLs, including SP. The two increasingly overlap in their analysis of the causes of relative poverty and injustice, and what can be done to address them, within countries and globally. Strengthening links between the two fields can be justified as a political project, even at the risk of some loss of plurality and plenitude across the social sciences.

scholarly journals In search of the truth

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-132
Author(s):  
S. Shamakhay ◽  
◽  
M. Sarkulova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
25Th Anniversary ◽  
The Social ◽  
Doctor Of Philosophy ◽  
New Beginnings ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Image Position ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

. Many important issues and problems related to the future of the nation are raised and analyzed primarily by representatives of the intellectuals, including those in university classrooms. L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University is one of the largest universities in Kazakhstan. The university celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. The Department of Philosophy is involved in the celebration process as well. Philosophy is of great importance for the culture of thinking of modern mankind, the formation of a critical attitude towards the social face of the country, contributing to the expansion of the spiritual outlook of students and the development of national consciousness, the spiritual revival of the nation. Philosophy, which is one of the leading disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities studied in higher and professional schools, from the first days of our university through the staff of the chair has contributed to the development of young students. At the Philosophy Chair of the Faculty of Social Sciences work three academicians of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan - Abdildin J.M., Garifolla Esim, Nurmanbetova D.N. In addition, about two dozen of doctors and candidates of sciences work at the chair, which shows the high potential and professional skills of the staff. Currently, the Department of Philosophy is headed by Doctor of Philosophy, Professor Kulshat Agibaevna Medeuova. This article will talk about the work of the teaching staff of the Department of Philosophy and about new beginnings and the importance of the activities of academician, thinker, writer, teacher and public figure, Doctor of Philosophy, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan Garifolla Yesim. Since 2013, the Philosophy Department has been successfully working on a new system of research, creative, methodological work, the foundations of which were laid by Academician Garifollah Yesim. It should be said that Garifollah Yesim from the moment of his arrival at the chair of philosophy after working in the Senate was able to structure and systematize his creative search and ideas, which he pondered all his life, developed a philosophical concept «Zhaksy Kazak», directly related to the national idea «Mangilik El». This concept presents the essence of the category «Zhaksy-Kazak» considered from the image position and seven stages of its achievement. It should be said that these seven stages are worked out in the educational and methodological plan and are studied in the educational programs «Philosophy», «Culture Studies» as elective disciplines.

How Empires Make Peripheries: ‘Overseas France’ in Contemporary History

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 434-445
Author(s):  
Sarah L. Wood
Keyword(s):  
New Caledonia ◽  
Social Scientist ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Small Island ◽  
Minority Status ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Political Turmoil ◽  
Independence Movements

The inhabitants of the overseas departments and collectivities of France have, of late, been reconsidering their relationships both to each other and to the former imperial metropole. In 2011 Mayotte, previously classified as an overseas collectivity, acceded to full French and European status as an overseas department of France following a referendum. This decision to, in the words of the social scientist François Taglioni, further ‘anchor’ the island in the republic has commonly been understood as a pragmatic decision as much as an ideological one. It was a way of distancing Mayotte from the political turmoil in neighbouring independent Comoros, as well as an indicator of the improbability of a small island nation achieving full sovereignty in a multipolar, resource hungry world. The narrative that self-determination must necessarily be obtained through national independence is still prevalent in the language of certain independence movements, including that of the Kanak people of New Caledonia. But it has been repeatedly tested at the ballot box, not least in November 2018 when New Caledonians voted in a referendum on their constitutional future. This referendum – and the further two due to follow it before 2022 – will be observed with interest by other self declared nations in waiting. Some anticipate, not a reclaiming of local sovereignty in the event of independence, but rather a transferral of economic hegemony from France to China, a prospect hinted at by Emmanuel Macron during a visit to Nouméa in 2018. However, the demographic minority status of the Kanak people whom the independentist Kanak and Socialist Liberation Front (Front de libération nationale kanak et socialiste;FLNKS) claims to represent, coupled with divisions within the movement, means it is very hard to predict the contours of a future independent New Caledonian state.

To Mine or Not to Mine?

2019 ◽  
pp. 224-246
Author(s):  
Jesus Pedro Zamora Bonilla ◽  
Simone Centuori
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Game Theory ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Social Studies Of Science ◽  
Academic Fields ◽  
The Social

Social studies of science have flourished within the last decades, making use of numerous intellectual tools from a high variety of academic fields in the social sciences and the humanities (sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, etc.). Game theory, however, has been one tool that has not been put to use too often, in spite of the obvious importance of strategic considerations in the negotiations between the relevant actors in research episodes. In this chapter, the authors illustrate the use of game-theoretical concepts and techniques with the analysis of a nascent research field: asteroid mining.

Medication rationality in treating depression

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 92-96
Author(s):  
Liubov KAVALIAUSKIENĖ ◽  
Rimantas PEČIŪRA ◽  
Virginija ADOMAITIENĖ
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Health Centre ◽  
Depression Treatment ◽  
Recurrent Depression ◽  
Family Doctors ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Republic ◽  
First Time ◽  
Relapse Rates

Background. The costs of depression treatment in Lithuania increase because of high depression relapse rates which indicate the necessity to evaluate first-time depression treatment rationality. The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of antidepressants according to the opinion of three groups of specialists (family doctors, psychiatrists and pharmacists) in order to assess the possibilities of a more rational use of depression treatment costs rationalizing opportunities. Materials and methods. Data on depression diagnoses were obtained from the Republic Psychiatric Health Centre. In 2009, 361 Lithuanian pharmacist, 317 family doctors and 280 psychiatrists were interviewed. The data were processed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences program. Results. In the study period (2004–2009), the volume of total depression diagnoses grew up by 12% and the number of relapsed depression diagnoses by 27%. Among family doctors, 13% still don’t launch depression treatment by themselves, and 62% of them refer patients to psychiatrists in cases of depression relapse. Those who prescribe a medicine all alone in most cases use sertraline, but even 38% of family doctors mention benzodiazepines. According to family doctors’ answers, 32% of them reevaluate the effect of medications in 4 weeks and 25% do not monitor it at all. More than 50% of pharmacists have noted that every day they are asked by patients for antidepressants without prescription. Conclusions. The abundance of cases of recurrent depression, recorded by family doctors, encourage to revise the preparedness of family doctors to treat this disease. The specialists’ opinion makes us to reevaluate and question the quality of depression treatment and to rationalize the efficiency of depression treatment in Lithuania as regards its both economic and social aspects. Keywords: depression treatment, antidepressants, depression relapse

scholarly journals Restructuring the Social Sciences: Reflections from Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (01) ◽  
pp. 165-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary King
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Sparse Data ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Research Teams ◽  
Academic Fields ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Type ◽  
Sparse Data Sets

AbstractThe social sciences are undergoing a dramatic transformation from studying problems to solving them; from making do with a small number of sparse data sets to analyzing increasing quantities of diverse, highly informative data; from isolated scholars toiling away on their own to larger scale, collaborative, interdisciplinary, lab-style research teams; and from a purely academic pursuit focused inward to having a major impact on public policy, commerce and industry, other academic fields, and some of the major problems that affect individuals and societies. In the midst of all this productive chaos, we have been building the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard, a new type of center intended to help foster and respond to these broader developments. We offer here some suggestions from our experiences for the increasing number of other universities that have begun to build similar institutions and for how we might work together to advance social science more generally.

A Reflection on the Ph.D. Program in Spatially Integrated Social Science at the University of Toledo

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bhuiyan Monwar Alam ◽  
Jeanette Eckert ◽  
Peter S. Lindquist
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Personal Reflection ◽  
Place And Space ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Academic Fields ◽  
The Social ◽  
Diverse Backgrounds ◽  
The University

The use of spatial analysis tools is on the rise in many academic fields and practical applications. These tools enhance the ability to examine data from spatial perspectives. Though the study of place and space has traditionally been the domain of the field of geography, growing numbers of researchers are turning to these tools in the social sciences and beyond. The University of Toledo has established a unique Ph.D. granting program to encompass the theories, tools, and applications of spatially integrated social science. In the first couple of years of its inception the program has attracted students from different places and diverse backgrounds. It is expected that the program will continue to thrive in attracting diverse students, securing external grants, and positively impacting on the economy of Northwest Ohio. This paper is a personal reflection of the views of the authors on the Ph.D. program in Spatially Integrated Social Science at the University of Toledo two years after its inception in fall 2009. The views, by no means, are of the University of Toledo, its SISS program, or any of the participating departments and faculty members.

Sorel, Georges (1847–1922)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Jennings
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Social Theorist ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Economic Foundations ◽  
General Strike

The French social theorist Georges Sorel is best known for his controversial work Réflexions sur la violence (Reflections on Violence), first published in 1908. He here argued that the world could be saved from ‘barbarism’ through acts of proletarian violence, most notably the general strike. This, he believed, would not only establish an ethic of the producers but would also serve to secure the economic foundations of socialism. Moreover the inspiration for these heroic deeds would be derived from a series of ‘myths’ that encapsulated the highest aspirations of the working class. More broadly Sorel should be seen as an innovator in Marxist theory and the methodology of the social sciences.

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