scholarly journals La pensée postmoderne et la criminologie

Criminologie ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Paul Brodeur
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Scientific Theory ◽  
Legitimation Crisis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Postmodern Thought

This article is an attempt to investigate the various meanings of the words "postmodernity", "postmodernism" and "postmodern". ft also assesses the significance of these words and of the concepts that they express for criminology. The paper is divided in three parts. The first part tries to dispell important misunderstandings that have sprung in relation to postmodernism. The most significant of these is the belief that there is such a thing as a postmodernist "method" in the social sciences. The second part identifies the origin of the term "postmodern" and discusses various themes which are perceived to be characteristic of postmodern thought. These themes are: the present legitimation crisis, the internal reflexivity of scientific theory, discourse analysis and meta-language, social and cultural fragmentation and historical pessimism. The last part draws the consequences of the preceding analyses for the development of criminology.

New Outlines of Structural Sociology, 1945–70

2019 ◽  
pp. 63-85
Author(s):  
J.P.S. Uberoi
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Scientific Theory ◽  
World View ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Home Rule ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Indian Point

This chapter presents a discussion of international intellectual trends in the social sciences, theoretical and empirical studies in India, the question of independence of mind or home rule in intellectual institutions. Following the swarajist project outlined earlier of viewing Europe and its systems of knowledge and practices from an independent Indian point of view, this chapter is in effect a research outline for a new structural sociology in India. We are introduced to structuralism as it exists in the world, its scope and definition and as a methodology for the social sciences. This is followed by the approach to structuralism as scientific theory, method and as philosophical world view. Finally discusses are the principles of structural analysis, structuralism in language, literature and culture, in social structure, with regard to society and the individual, religion, philosophy, politics, sociology and social-anthropology.

Discourse Analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 88-94
Author(s):  
Elisa Narminio ◽  
Caterina Carta
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Entry Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

This chapter describes discourse analysis. In linguistics, discourse is generally defined as a continuous expression of connected written or spoken language that is larger than a sentence. However, as a method in the social sciences, discourse analysis (DA) gave rise to diatribes about where to set the borders of discourse. As language constitutes the very entry point to the world, some discourse analysts argue that all that exists acquires meaning through language. Does this mean that discourse constitutes reality? Is there anything outside text and discourse? Or is discourse one among many means of social construction? The evolution of DA in social science unearths an ontological debate between ‘realists’ and ‘nominalists’, which eventually reverberates in epistemological strategies.

Narrative Research in Education

Education ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Jean Clandinin ◽  
Vera Caine ◽  
Margot Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Narrative Research ◽  
Written Text ◽  
The Social ◽  
Narrative Methodology ◽  
Research In Education

While the study of narratology has a long history, narrative research became a methodology for the study of phenomena in the social sciences in the 1980s. Since that time there has been what some have called a narrative revolution, which is reflected in the rapid uptake in the use of narrative methodology across disciplines. There are diverse definitions of narrative research with different ontological and epistemological commitments, which range from semiotic studies and discourse analysis of spoken and written text to analysis of textual structures of speech and performances of texts as in narrative analysis to the relational studies of narrative inquiry where a focus on lived and told experience is central.

scholarly journals Methods for the Study of Management Ideas

2019 ◽  
pp. 85-103
Author(s):  
David Strang ◽  
Christian Wittrock
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Event History ◽  
Archival Data ◽  
Rich Variety ◽  
Large N ◽  
The Social ◽  
Communicative Processes

This chapter surveys methodologies employed in the study of management ideas. It emphasizes the field’s rich variety of data collection, measurement, and inferential strategies. To map this landscape, the authors group studies by the number of cases they examine, from large N event history analyses based on archival data to ethnographies of a single organization. They give particular attention to bibliometrics and discourse analysis because these methods grapple with the interpretive and communicative processes that are central to management ideas and because techniques for capturing and analysing text are currently being revolutionized across the social sciences.

14. Textual Analysis

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Halperin ◽  
Oliver Heath
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Political Research ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
The Social

This chapter discusses the principles of textual analysis as a means of gathering information and evidence in political research. Textual analysis has generated strong interest as a research method not only in Politics and International Relations, but also throughout the social sciences. In political research, two forms of textual analysis have become particularly prominent: discourse analysis and content analysis. The chapter examines discourse analysis and content analysis and explains the use of documents, archival sources, and historical writing as data. It considers the distinction between discourse analysis and content analysis, as well as the differences between qualitative and quantitative content analysis. It also describes the procedures that are involved in both quantitative and qualitative content analysis.

photography as a research method

2020 ◽  
pp. 568-600
Author(s):  
Gunilla Holm
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Informed Consent ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Ethnographic Analysis ◽  
The Impact

This chapter discusses the development of photography as a research method in the social sciences. It describes the different types of photographs used, such as archival photographs and photographs taken by the researcher, and it focuses especially on photographs taken by participants. The uses of different approaches to obtain photographs and issues of interest concerning each approach are presented. The most common approaches to analyze photographs, such as content analysis, discourse analysis, and ethnographic analysis, are described. Interesting and challenging questions about the interpretation and presentation of photographs are raised, such as the impact of the researcher’s and participants’ habitus on the interpretation of photographs. Finally, ethical issues in research using photographs are considered, especially the meaning of informed consent, and confidentiality in photographic research is emphasized.

scholarly journals Communication Processes in Social Systems Through the Prism of the Paradigm of Complexity

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 385-388
Author(s):  
Javier A. Piloto Rodriguez ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Methodological Foundation ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Task

This article is focused on the results of the study of social systems based on the principles of the Complexity Paradigm.Our research task is focused on the analysis of communication processes in social systems. Our objective is to study their way of functioning of the parameters which we find in “a human” type of social systems. As a theoretical and methodological foundation, we use the Complexity paradigm, and we also rely on the Complex Discourse Analysis that was obtained as a result of our previous studies. The results of this work introduce a new approach to a group of characteristics and development dynamics present in communication processes and systems.The conclusions set out in the article fix the paradigmatic transformations in the study of human communication systems, caused by the penetration of the category of Multi-complexity, which serves here as the adapter of the paradigm of the complexity, in the research space of the social sciences.

scholarly journals Demystifying the Analysis Process of Talk Data: A Review of Analyzing Talk in the Social Sciences: Narrative, Conversation & Discourse Strategies

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Lypka
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Fine Tuning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Discourse Strategies ◽  
Analytical Approaches

In Analyzing Talk in the Social Sciences: Narrative, Conversation & Discourse Strategies, Katherine Bischoping and Amber Gazso introduce three analytical approaches to talk data: narrative analysis, conversation analysis, and discourse analysis. Taking a sociological perspective, the authors engage in critical dialogue on research that employs these approaches, and provide step-by-step guide to analyzing talk data, using these strategies. They expand on introductory qualitative research concepts by taking up the complex interrelationships among epistemological, ontological, paradigmatical, and theoretical lenses that guide these analytical strategies. Through examples from a wide range of studies and their own research and advising experiences, Bischoping and Gazso articulate various analytical approaches to talk data to demonstrate the strength of these strategies in qualitative inquiry. Despite its minor shortcomings, such as its narrow focus on three analytical approaches and prevalent focus on talk data elicited in interviews, this book offers insights and strategies for students, faculty, and researchers interested in fine-tuning approaches guided by narrative analysis, conversation analysis, and discourse analysis.

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