scholarly journals Methodological issues in contemporary sociology of Bosnia and Herzegovina

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Slavo Kukić
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Contemporary Sociology ◽  
Methodological Problems

Contemporary sociological science is increasingly being characterized by apositivist, therefore, the orientation on the empirical research of social problems.If there is, however, about the Bosnian-Herzegovinian sociology, thereare many unexplored issues in the fi eld of empirical sociological research - andthe greater is the number of causes of it. Methodological problems, of course,are one of the major manifestations of those causes- the problems in the areaof quantitative as well as those in the fi eld of qualitative sociological research.Some of the other dimensions of the problem should not be ignored - the issueof ethics in sociological research, the problem of a single database in the fi eldof sociology, as well as the research in the fi eld of social sciences in general, andthe like. And all of that is analyzed in the context of this paper.

scholarly journals IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION ON THE PERFORMANCE OF THE COMPANY: THE CASE OF COMPANIES FROM BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-49
Author(s):  
Hasan Mahmutović ◽  
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Sead Talović ◽  
Safet Kurtović ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Transition Countries ◽  
The Other ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Current Topic ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Double Impact

The discourse of globalization and its effects have been the most current topic in the field of economics in recent times. However, empirical research on the impact of globalization on companies, especially in transition countries, is very scarce. This paper focuses on the study of the impact of globalization on the performance of companies in Bosnia and Herzegovina by analyzing their interrelationships. The findings, in the case of companies in Bosnia and Herzegovina, have confirmed earlier findings about the double impact of globalization by showing, on the one hand, its positive effects and, on the other hand, the negative effects on the performance of the companies. Additionally, the research results have shown that negative effects are felt more strongly in the case of small and medium-sized companies than in the case of large companies.

scholarly journals Elements of Organizational Culture – theoretical and methodological problems

Management ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Łukasz Sułkowski
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Organizational Subcultures ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
Cultural Components

Abstract Elements of organizational culture - theoretical and methodological issues The purpose of this article is therefore the analysis of the various elements of organizational culture that are present in different concepts of culture. This is an important problem from the point of view of theory and practice of managing organizations because it is through research and development that culture can be managed, or at least influenced. The article analyzes different elements of organizational culture that can be identified in empirical research. 13 different types of cultural components were identified, ranging from values to organizational subcultures.

scholarly journals On some theoretical and methodological issues in researching the Roma population in sociology and ethnology/socio-cultural anthropology. The example of an ongoing research project in Serbia

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 879
Author(s):  
Miloš Milenković ◽  
Isidora Jarić ◽  
Valentina Sokolovska
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Roma Population ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Sociological Approaches ◽  
Methodological Aspects

The paper considers theoretical and methodological problems noted during the research project “Social and cultural potentials of the Roma ethnic community in Serbia” undertaken during 2013 and 2014. These problems point to an extant yet latent tension between the anthropological and the sociological approaches to the researched reality, with special emphasis on the antirealist tradition of the former and the empiricist “realist” tradition of the latter in the Serbian academic tradition of these disciplines. The paper considers how standard issues connected to methodological aspects of this primarily sociological research project (choice of topic, creation of sample, the making of field instruments, selection of informants, communication in the field, use of field assistants, data analysis and the making of the manuscript) diffract through the prism of theoretically disputable concepts of identity, ethnicity, assimilation and essentialization, which are subject to continuing questioning in anthropological theoretical and empirical research. The experience of conducting research together displays a set of methodological defaults on the anthropological and a set of theoretical defaults on the sociological side, followed by research renunciations and interpretative tensions and frustrations that arise from them, so it can be used as a guide to understanding disciplinary differences and similarities, especially when planning cooperation on a global level as well as in the local research context. Aside from this, the indivisibility of theoretical and methodological structures and the huge influence of theory on method, as demonstrated by the research itself, is considered, with implications for understanding theoretical and methodological issues which are bigger than the two disciplines in question. It is concluded that, for pragmatic reasons, multidisciplinary research of this type must be designed to suppress the theoretical ambitions of anthropology as well as the methodological ambitions of sociology.

A critical analysis of the theories and models of self-education

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-14
Author(s):  
Bogusław Śliwerski
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Individual Activity ◽  
Psychological Issues ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Oriented Activity ◽  
Individual Self

Human behaviour researchers argue on self-education matters, which accumulate the complex of unsolved contentious problematic issues, referring to classical antinomies: freedom, socialization, and self-consciousness. There are many controversies concerning the interpretation of the self-education notion in social sciences and corresponding theories. The author of the paper presents those theories and explains approaches to self-education, as they have inspired countless pedagogical and psychological issues. Concurrently he underlines different activities, which illustrate two contrasting theoretical standpoints. The first one treats self-education as perfectio prima. It happens when the striving to perfection is realized by Socratic (“self-oriented”) model. Such an approach is the only motivation of individual activity and the aim in itself. On the other hand, the second perspective understands self-education as the Promethean (“out-oriented”) activity. In the light of its assumptions, it is a kind of spontaneous, nonintentional man’s activities aimed to transform reality out of oneself, the surrounding world, and the environment of life. Here, self-education is the perfectio secunda category, which means that the individual self-educates itself by reaching excellence per accidens. Such distinction is crucial for project constructing and empirical research questing.

scholarly journals THEORY OF JOB SATISFACTION AND JOB PERFORMANCE: TIME FOR A SECOND LOOK

2004 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hermeindito Kaaro
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Job Performance ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Present Model ◽  
The Other ◽  
Performance Time ◽  
Second Look ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
Matching Pair

Relationship between job satisfaction and job performance has been extensively searched in previous studies. However, bulk evidences show the correlation between the two is relatively low. This study attempts to refine the concepts of job satisfaction and job performance and proposes mechanism relationship between the two. The present model shows that mechanism between the two is not clearly matching pair. The concepts of job satisfaction more concerns on a set of jobs. The concepts of job performance, on the other hand, more concerns on a particular job. Some methodological problems also arise in empirical research. Both theoretical and methodological problems may lead such previous studies in searching relationship between job performance and job satisfaction has been trapped out of track. Hence, it should not be surprising that such empirical findings are relatively weak to improve this relationship. Some implications for further studies are discussed in this paper.

scholarly journals Some methodological problems in Sociology of Religion

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Cvitković
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
The West ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
Methodological Approaches

Th is paper deals with some questions of the methodological approaches in theresearch and the analysis of issues of religion and religiosity in contemporarysociety. Th e fi rst question raised here is whether and to what extent is applicablethe comparative method in sociology of religion, such as the question ofthe reliability of research fi ndings in the West in their application to studiesof religion in the East. Th e diffi culties that are seen here, refer to the questionof objectivity and understanding of the very concept of religion in diff erentreligious and cultural backgrounds and areas. Th e question is: can you observeone religion based on the other religions? Another important methodologicalissue that arises in this work is the use of the “in-depth interview” asthe dominant instrument in the empirical research? Th e third issue that thiswork starts, is the manner and forms of typology of religiosity, especially inthe modern conditions?

Is Chinese Culture Distinctive?—A Review Article

1993 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 923-936 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Nathan
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
The Other ◽  
Real Problem ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
Chinese Studies ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Two Bodies ◽  
Better Than

Anyone Who Works in the Field of Area Studies knows from experience that cultures are different. Indeed, the effort to understand the distinctiveness of cultures in comparative perspective is a central undertaking of the modern humanities and social sciences, not only in Asian studies but in studies of other parts of the world. But works on the subject seldom discuss the conceptual and methodological issues involved. What do we mean by culture in the context of comparative statements? How can a culture's distinctiveness be conceptualized? What is required to demonstrate that such distinctiveness exists, what it consists of, and what influence it has on the performance of societies? In the case of Chinese studies, how far have we come in establishing that Chinese culture is distinctive, in what ways, and with what consequences?It is helpful to discuss these issues in terms of two bodies of literature with different ways of conceptualizing culture and its distinctiveness, although I intend to blur the distinction at the end. Following Ying-shih Yü, I will label the two approaches hermeneutic and positivistic. I do not argue that one of the approaches is better than the other; each achieves goals that the other does not. The real problem is lack of clarity about the different logical statuses of the kinds of findings that typically emerge from the two approaches. This can lead to problems when insights are transposed from the hermeneutic approach into positivistic language or vice versa.

The Difficult Joining of Theory and Empirical Research

2022 ◽  
pp. 11-23
Author(s):  
Emiliana Mangone
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Social ◽  
Societal Changes ◽  
Recent Debate ◽  
Digital Research

Many approaches to the study of the social sciences rely on the interpretation of reality itself, giving rise to the quantitative/qualitative dispute. These methods cannot exist one without the other – nor can they necessarily find themselves on opposite poles. To follow one does not mean to forsake the other; on the contrary, both offer the opportunity to observe from different angles aspects of the phenomenon investigated, granting more effective readings of its complexity. While sociology has reproduced its various stances in its scholarly analyses, the most recent debate has relinquished this debate to focus on two alternative features. Both pertain to sociology and the role of social science researchers: the conjugation between theory and empirics and the crisis of sociology in providing answers to societal changes. This contribution aims to address the issues related to the conjugation between theory and empirical research considering digital research methods. The author outlines their strengths and weaknesses without forgetting the original status of sociology as a science.

scholarly journals Brazilian environmental sociology: a provisional review

2002 ◽  
pp. 27-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leila da Costa Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Environmental Sociology ◽  
Environmental Policies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Contemporary Sociology ◽  
Institutional Aspects ◽  
Empirical Sociology ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Brazilian Case

The article aims firstly at the reconstitution and analysis of history within the scope of international environmental sociology situated in the context of contemporary sociology. It also discusses - from the standpoint of literature (Buttel, Dunlap, Hanning, among others) - its theoretical-methodological and institutional aspects as well in order to understand the obstacles encountered to legitimate and consolidate a set of problems which, until recently, were not dealt with by social sciences. Secondly, it analyses the Brazilian case. Environmental sociology in Brazil is strongly influenced by American empirical sociology, the precursor of the institutionalization process for the themes. On the other hand, further analysis of this case is relevant to understand the relationship between the scientific sphere, and the creation of environmental policies and social movements.

scholarly journals On Sociological Reflexivity

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-18
Author(s):  
Monika Krause
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Cultural Sociology ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
The Self ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
The Social

This article offers a critique of the self-observation of the social sciences practiced in the philosophy of the social sciences and the critique of epistemological orientations. This kind of reflection involves the curious construction of wholes under labels, which are the result of a process of “distillation” or “abstraction” of a “position” somewhat removed from actual research practices and from the concrete claims and findings that researchers produce, share, and debate. In this context, I call for more sociological forms of reflexivity, informed by empirical research on practices in the natural sciences and by sociomaterial approaches in science and technology studies and cultural sociology. I illustrate the use of sociological self-observation for improving sociological research with two examples: I discuss patterns in how comparisons are used in relation to how comparisons could be used, and I discuss how cases are selected in relation to how they could be selected.

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