Reagire alla pandemia: l’arte e la ricerca che (r)esistono

This paper examines the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on the ‘situated art’ and on the geo-social methodology of research. The centralization of daily activities in the domestic spaces, caused by the pandemic, has had important repercussions on the topic of the doctoral research – the artistic use of public space – and on the ‘design’ of the research itself. So, the aims of the work are to show how a research project can change as needed and how the geo-social researcher must constantly adapt to reality and its transformations. In addition to presenting the criticalities encountered by ‘buskers’ and by the researcher, particular importance will be given to the alternative working methods introduced to overcome this collective crisis.

Social Worker and Researcher, USA

This chapter describes the experience of a social researcher and family social worker with individuals with Non-Epileptic Seizures (NES). Epilepsy is stigmatizing enough, and, despite what providers might think about NES, these seizures are as real to these patients as they are to those with verified diagnoses of epilepsy. These patients are scared, concerned for their health, and upset that medication has not helped, and adding a layer of disdain from someone who is supposed to be helping them can be devastating. People with NES who are treated poorly and feel their problems are being dismissed as “fake” may become unwilling to continue treatment for fear of ridicule. Moreover, from a social work perspective, dealing with children with NES is a red flag for possibly undisclosed sexual abuse, and understanding that is very important. As such, a kind, empathetic, and proactive service provider can go a long way toward improving health and psychological outcomes, no matter the diagnosis.

What’s at Stake in Digital Social Research?

I am a social researcher who uses both theoretical and empirical enquiry not so much to describe the social as to understand the conflicts involved in constructing an order that appears to us as ‘social’. I seek to address the paradox of doing social research: for the social is not something concrete at which we can point, but a dimension of how whatever in our life is concrete holds together as a world. Media are crucial to what hangs together as a world – and in ways that much social research to this day still ignores. Media are in the contemporary era irrevocably ‘digital’: they take forms that automatically bring possibilities for recombination, retransmission, and reworking by multiple actors. As such, and unavoidably, digital media can be woven tight into the fabric of social life much more than previous media. But what does this mean for the social world, that is, for our possibilities to enhance or undermine how we live together today?

Voluntarismo heurístico e historicidad en los estudios de género: un debate epistémico = Heuristic Voluntarism and Historicity in Gender Studies: An Epistemic Debate

Resumen: El presente trabajo provee a indagar respecto a las condiciones metodológicas y epistémicas que limitan la praxis heurística de todo aquel que se vea llamado a indagar sobre los estudios de género. Se sugiere aquí que en tanto el investigador social pretenda cuestionar los límites valorativos, axiológicos y gnoseológicos sobre los cuales se instituye la tradición de los estudios de género, tal investigador deberá poder renunciar, al menos iniciáticamente, a toda pretensión de cientificismo para su obra (a tal fin se apelará, cual ejemplo paradigmático, a la noción de la “performatividad de los cuerpos” de Butler). En tal sentido, se sugerirá que, a fin de cuentas, el costo de oportunidad teórico relativo a tal cuestionamiento puede ser exorbitantemente alto en tanto el mismo suponga coartar la libertad heurística del investigador de referencia. A lo largo de este ensayo, el autor no apelará a bibliografía filiada en el corpus teórico de los estudios de género, sino a contribuciones de la epistemología y la sociología del conocimiento. Por otro lado, tampoco se proveerá aquí a debatir sobre los derechos de aquellos grupos a cuyo análisis se abocan los estudios de género sino, por el contrario, a consideraciones epistemológicas relativas en tal disciplina.Palabras clave: Epistemología de los estudios de género, sociología del conocimiento, performatividad de los cuerpos, voluntarismo de los estudios de género, historicidad de los estudios de género.Abstract: The present work is intended to investigate the methodological and epistemic conditions that may constrain the heuristic realms of anyone who is devoted to the gender studies. It is suggested here that as long as the social researcher intends to question the values, mindset and gnoseological constructs on which the tradition of gender studies is instituted, such a researcher should be able to renounce, at least initially, to any claim of scientism to his work (to such an end, the author will appeal, as a paradigmatic example, to the notion of the "performativity of the bodies" of Butler). In such a sense, it will be suggested that, in the end, the theoretical cost of opportunity related to the abovementioned inquiry can be exorbitantly considerable as long as it supposes restricting the heuristic freedom of the researcher. Throughout this essay, the author will not appeal to bibliography related to the theoretical corpus of gender studies, but to contributions from epistemology and sociology of knowledge. On the other hand, the current essay is not grounded to discuss the rights of those groups which the gender studies attention is focused on, but, on the contrary, it will provide to exert some relative epistemological considerations within such a discipline.Keywords: Epistemology of gender studies, sociology of knowledge, performativity of bodies, voluntarism of gender studies, historicity of gender studies.

Ethics in Social Research

It is right that social researchers consider the ethical implications of their work, but discussion of research ethics has been distorted by the primacy of the ‘informed consent’ model for policing medical interventions. It is remarkably rare for the data collection phase of social research to be in any sense harmful, and in most cases seeking consent from, say, members of a church congregation would disrupt the naturally occurring phenomena we wish to study. More relevant is the way we report our research. It is in the disparity between how people would like to see themselves described and explained and how the social researcher describes and explains them that we find the greatest potential for ill-feeling, and even here it is slight.

Positivisme dan Strukturalisme: Sebuah Perbandingan Epistemologi dalam Ilmu Sosial

<p>The emergence of various types in epistemology shows that social sciences has grown dynamically. Several epistemologies which is usually applied by social scientist such as positivism, historicism, materialism, phenomenology, structuralism, and hermeneutics. Epistemology can be intrepeted as a philosophical view that used in assessing social and cultural phenomena. As a social researcher, we have to be aware for using an epistemology in order to get results on the right path. In the other hand, most of the epistemologies have the advantages and weakness for understanding social and cultural phenomena. Therefore, this paper aim to explain the comparison between positivism and structuralism. It will be analyzed through some elements in epistemology for instance basic assumption, model and value. </p>

ADAPTING DOMESTIC PRODUCT WITHIN CULTURAL MIGRATION IN MALAYSIA

Planning one new product for the cultural migrating community, users determined needs may be particularly unpredictable in a changing society. The growth of products from abroad might overlook the diversity of users’ culture. This shift is a challenge product planner and political experts. This paper illustrates how social researcher engaged in understanding about cultural migration and domestic product trend in Malaysia, where individuals, who find themselves in new environments, use and adapt household products to support both traditional and developing expectations. Findings from this work are beneficial to propose some principles of product migration in practice, and techniques for

Antropologia e misticismo: diálogos com uma nativa na rede

Este artigo propõe refletir sobre o diálogo entre pesquisadora e pesquisada na rede social. O diálogo, a princípio tenso, revelou nuances do fazer “o campo” e da disputa de “saberes” que embora dissonantes, são complementares e simétricos. O blog neste diálogo foi o objeto que contribuiu para rastrear as conexões sociais entre pesquisadora, nativa, comunidade islâmica, grupo de pesquisa. A percepção do social perpassa esses pontos, isto não significa, como alerta Latour (2012), obter simetria entre humanos e não-humanos (blog), e sim, considerar que há agência nos não-humanos, que nos permitem compreender ainda mais o humano. Palavras chave: Etnografia visual. Blog. Comunidade islâmica. Antropologia Simétrica. Anthropology and mysticism: conversations with a native network Absctract This paper proposes a reflection on the dialogue between researcher and researched on the Social Network. The dialogue, at first tense, revealed nuances of doing fieldwork and the dispute of "knowledge" that, although dissonant, is complementary and symmetricn. The dialogue in this blog motived the resercher to trace the connections between the social researcher, the native, the Islamic community, the research group. Though the perception of the social permeates these points, this does not mean, as alerts Latour (2012), obtaining symmetry between humans and nonhumans (blog), and yes, we consider that there are non-human agencies, that allow us to understand the human better. Keywords: Visual ethnography. Blog. Islamic community. Symmetric anthropology.