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2. Does School Spending Matter? The New Literature on an Old Question. NBER Working Paper No. 25368
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National Bureau of Economic Research and Jackson, C. Kirabo
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Social scientists have long sought to examine the causal impact of school spending on child outcomes. For a long time, the literature on this topic was largely descriptive so that it had been difficult to draw strong causal claims. However, there have been several recent studies in this space that employ larger data-sets and use quasi-experimental methods that allow for much more credible causal claims. Focusing on studies of students in the United States, this paper briefly discusses the older literature and highlights some of its limitations. It then describes a recent quasi-experimental literature on the impact of school spending on child outcomes, highlights some key papers, and presents a summary of the recent findings. Policy implications and areas for future research are discussed.
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- 2018
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3. PAPER TRAIL.
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Joelving, Frederik
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CAREER development , *SOCIAL scientists , *FRAUD in science , *SCIENCE journalism , *ELECTRONIC journals - Abstract
The article sheds light on a concerning trend in the scientific publishing industry, where fraudulent paper mills are resorting to bribing journal editors to secure publication for questionable research papers. It mentions that the investigation reveals instances of editors, including those affiliated with reputable journals, accepting cash from paper mills in exchange for publishing papers.
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- 2024
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4. France before 1789: The Unraveling of an Absolutist Regime: by Jon Elster, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2020, 280 pp., $49.95/£40.00 (cloth), $29.95/£25.00 (paper).
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Chisick, Harvey
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SOCIAL scientists , *SOCIAL history , *POLITICAL scientists , *FRENCH Revolution, 1789-1799 , *HISTORIOGRAPHY , *PEASANTS - Abstract
"France before 1789: The Unraveling of an Absolutist Regime" by Jon Elster is a book that examines the period leading up to the French Revolution. The author explores different interpretations of the revolution and focuses on the psychology of social groups and the political actors of the time. Elster's extensive knowledge of French history and his use of various thinkers and philosophers contribute to his analysis. While some historians may question the inevitability of the revolution, Elster presents it as a result of changing circumstances and the reaction of the third estate. The book also highlights the need for further research on the subject. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2024
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5. On the Costs of Socially Relevant Philosophy Papers: A Reflection.
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Dotson, Kristie
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REFLECTION (Philosophy) , *SOCIAL scientists , *SOCIAL theory , *BLACK feminism , *PHILOSOPHY of science - Abstract
They include: (i) ideational labor, (ii) construction labor, and (iii) aspirational costs. Is successful, it was possible only because the ideational necessities for it were met by previous laborers and labor, for example, the labor of feminist philosophers (of all sorts) and men of color philosophers on metaphilosophy and diversity. Alienation, in some form or another, was identified by people working in such areas as comparative philosophy, Eastern philosophical traditions, Africana philosophy, various forms of feminist philosophy, engaged philosophy, philosophies of various sciences (e.g., biology or physics), and even Western "history of philosophy." This underappreciated work load shared by most diverse practioners in the field of philosophy speaks to the way ideational labor can be problematic. Learning the skills that go into epistemological investigation today was part of the training I mentioned above and, as such, was part of the construction labor for "How Is This Paper Philosophy?". [Extracted from the article]
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- 2022
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6. Recent Developments in Intergenerational Mobility. NBER Working Paper No. 15889
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National Bureau of Economic Research, Black, Sandra E., and Devereux, Paul J.
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Economists and social scientists have long been interested in intergenerational mobility, and documenting the persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an active area of research. However, since Gary Solon's 1999 Chapter in the Handbook of Labor Economics, the literature has taken an interesting turn. In addition to focusing on obtaining precise estimates of correlations and elasticities, the literature has placed increased emphasis on the causal mechanisms that underlie this relationship. This chapter describes the developments in the intergenerational transmission literature since the 1999 Handbook Chapter. While there have been some important contributions in terms of measurement of elasticities and correlations, we focus primarily on advances in our understanding of the forces driving the relationship and less on the precision of the correlations themselves.
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- 2010
7. Modernity's Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India: by Nicholas Hoover Wilson, New York, Columbia University Press, 2023, xiv + 296 pp., $35.00/£30 (paper).
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Hall, Ian
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BRITISH occupation of India, 1765-1947 , *CORRUPTION , *GAZE , *ETHICS , *MODERNITY , *SOCIAL scientists - Abstract
"Modernity's Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India" by Nicholas Hoover Wilson explores the history of the East India Company (EIC) and its impact on India. The book highlights the EIC's trade monopoly, which generated wealth for its merchants and allowed the Company to exert control over India. The author argues that the EIC's history is marked by accusations of corruption, which reflect a broader struggle over the meaning of corruption in modern Britain. The book examines how different conceptions of corruption shaped the EIC's transformation into a new kind of organization with a new relationship with the British state. Overall, "Modernity's Corruption" provides valuable insights into the EIC's role in shaping the modern world. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2024
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8. Hotels and highways: the construction of modernization theory in Cold War Turkey: by Begüm Adalet, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2018, 304 pp., $30 (paper), ISBN 9781503605541.
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Erken, Ali
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HOTEL design & construction , *ROAD construction , *COLD War, 1945-1991 , *SOCIAL scientists , *TRAVEL time (Traffic engineering) , *MODERNIZATION (Social science) , *MODERNIZATION theory - Abstract
In Chapter 2, Adalet examines the records of Daniel Lerner, another prominent theorist of modernization who conducted research in Turkey. In the study of Turkish-American relations in the twentieth century, much of the focus is on political narratives, diplomatic exchanges, crises, and regional disputes. Adalet also supplies many anecdotes to show the inner details of the relationship between Hilts and Vecdi Diker, who visited the United States and proposed the foundation of a separate Directorate of Highways ( I Karayollari Genel Müdürlügü i ) in Turkey. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2022
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9. Historians' Uses of Archived Material from Sociological Research: A Response to the Commentaries on My Paper.
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Goldthorpe, John
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SOCIOLOGICAL research , *HISTORIANS , *SOCIAL science methodology , *SOCIAL scientists , *INFERENCE (Logic) - Published
- 2022
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10. Call for Papers.
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GESTALT psychology ,SOCIAL scientists ,POSTER presentations ,COOPERATIVENESS ,BANK service charges - Published
- 2023
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11. The Peter Shaw Award Acceptance Address: An Immigrant Sociologist
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Hollander, Paul
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This article presents the author's acceptance address for receiving the Peter Shaw award. In this address, the author, an immigrant sociologist, tells how this award helps to resolve questions and uncertainties he has as to the degree to which he can or should consider himself an American--about the extent to which he has become a part, a member of the society. It represents a token of acceptance and appreciation by a group of fellow intellectuals with whom he has much in common and who stand for authentic American values and beliefs. The author's attraction to these values--and the institutions protecting them--contributed greatly to his living in the United States. In conclusion, the author suggests that one doesn't have to be a former refugee from a communist country in order to subscribe to the values and convictions that brought NAS into existence. The members of this organization and the millions of Americans who support what NAS stands for without knowing that it exists, prove that being critical of orthodoxies, conformity, double standards, and self-righteous intolerance need not be a by-product of growing up in a highly repressive and openly intolerant society. (Contains 1 note.)
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- 2003
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12. 2020 JGS Best Paper Award and the Editors' Choice Paper Volume 23(1).
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Fischer, Manfred M., Paez, Antonio, Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés, and Staufer-Steinnocher, Petra
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SOCIAL scientists ,TRADITIONAL ecological knowledge ,MONITOR alarms (Medicine) ,MARKOV chain Monte Carlo ,ETHNOLOGY - Abstract
The paper outlines newly minted estimation procedures and techniques to tackle these challenges for the case of massive data samples. i Editors' Choice Paper Volume 23(1) The B I JGS i b B Editors' Choice b of articles represent papers that the editors see as providing an especially significant contribution to the field. With the first issue of 2021, it is our pleasure to announce two novel initiatives to acknowledge and celebrate the outstanding quality of research published in the journal: first, the new annual B I JGS i b B Best Paper Award b , and second, the B Editors' Choice b of their favorite paper of each issue. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2021
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13. Conviction: the making and unmaking of the violent brain: by Oliver Rollins, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2021, Pp.225, $25.00 (paper), ISBN: 9781503627895.
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Whooley, Owen
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SOCIAL scientists , *VIOLENT crimes , *RACE , *COLOR blindness , *TECHNOLOGICAL innovations - Abstract
Rollins reveals neuroscientists' promises to be more branding than substance, a defensive crouch aimed at heading off controversy rather than tackling the immensely complicated interactions between the biological and the social. This conviction has solidified into what Rollins deems the "violent brain model" - an assumption that the brain is locus of violence and criminality. Part I unpacks the research program, specifically the research assumptions and conventions by which neuroscientists squeeze the complexity of crime and violence into the violent brain model. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2022
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14. Paper, Pen and Today's Communication Platforms: Remote Disaster Research during a Pandemic.
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Grijalva, Daniela Paredes
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PANDEMICS , *DISASTERS , *SOCIAL scientists , *VIDEOCONFERENCING , *DIGITAL technology - Published
- 2021
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15. Call for Papers.
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GESTALT psychology ,SOCIAL scientists ,POSTER presentations ,COOPERATIVENESS ,BANK service charges - Published
- 2023
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16. PAPER 1: DISCRIMINATORY TRANSFORMATION: Examining the Impacts of Perceived Discrimination on Racial Closure Ideology for Asian Immigrants.
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Gibson, Ryan
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RACE discrimination ,PERCEIVED discrimination ,SOCIAL science research ,CULTURAL pluralism ,SOCIAL scientists ,INTERRACIAL couples - Published
- 2019
17. ‘Grimpact’: psychological researchers should do more to prevent widespread harm.
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Zivony, Alon
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RESEARCH personnel ,KILLINGS by police ,RESEARCH ethics ,SOCIAL scientists ,SOCIAL groups - Abstract
The article discusses the need for psychological researchers to consider wider ethical guidelines for socially responsible science. It highlights the potential harm that studies can have on society, even if they are methodologically sound. The article presents examples of retracted papers that promoted stigmatizing or harmful ideas and argues that current guidelines for retraction do not address negative impacts. It also discusses a controversial ethical guideline proposed by the journal Nature Human Behavior, which suggests that some studies should not be published or retracted even if they are methodologically sound. The article concludes by offering recommendations for researchers to improve their decision-making and be more socially responsible in their work. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2024
18. PAPERS IN SELECT SOCIOLOGY JOURNALS (1999-2004): A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS.
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Hittalamani, V. P. and Gowda, M. P.
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BIBLIOMETRICS ,SOCIAL sciences ,AUTHORSHIP ,PERIODICAL circulation ,SOCIAL scientists ,CROSS references (Information retrieval) ,PUBLICATIONS -- Social aspects ,DISCIPLINE - Abstract
The main objectives of the present study is to determine the, growth of literature in the field of sociology and the related authorship pattern; value of group co-efficient for collaborative research and geographical distribution of papers during 1999-21003. The study shows that the highest number of papers (86) were published in 2001 and 2003. The number of single author papers is higher at 84% out of a total of 475. The value of group co-efficient (g
p ) was only 0.16. The degree of collaboration among the co-authors was minimum (0.02) in articles written by five authors and maximum (0.12) in two- author papers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2008
19. Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be: by Diane Coyle, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2021, vii + 219 pp., $18.95/£14.99 (paper).
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Johnson, Laurie M.
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SOCIAL scientists ,INFORMATION technology ,GOVERNMENT policy ,ARTIFICIAL intelligence ,DIGITAL technology - Abstract
"Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be" by Diane Coyle is a book that argues for a return to the discipline of political economy in order to yield realistic and useful analyses and recommendations. Coyle criticizes the prevailing standard economic theory, which assumes rational actors with autonomy and fixed needs, as a narrative or ideological story. She highlights the need for economists to acknowledge the realities of an economy that is increasingly complex and difficult to simplify theoretically or quantitatively, particularly in the face of the new digital economy and the rapid development of artificial intelligence. Coyle also addresses the changing dynamics of the economy, such as the growing importance of the service sector and the casualization of the labor market, and the political implications of economists' inability to grasp these changes. The book concludes by emphasizing the need for a modern approach to the public provision and regulation of information goods and the importance of putting the social, rather than the individual, at the heart of the study of economics. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2024
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20. NOMADLAND: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century: By Jessica Bruder. New York: W.W. Norton, 2017; 273 pp.; ills., bibliog., index. $13.95 (paper), isbn 9780393356311.
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TWENTY-first century , *SOCIAL scientists , *SEASONAL employment , *COMMUNITIES , *JOB hunting , *HUNTER-gatherer societies - Abstract
Some nomads have their own websites and are on Facebook, which might be worth exploring. There is no typology of these nomads; some have regularity, some on highly ad hoc (just hitting the road) ventures, and some using websites, Facebook, and Internet gatherings to construct a community. Bruder mentions the I RV Daily Report i , the Rubber Tramp Rendezvous, roving GTG (get togethers), FreeCampsites.net, Kampgrounds of America, Amazon's CamperForce, and Craigslist (for job opportunities). [Extracted from the article]
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- 2023
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21. Good on paper: sociological critique, pragmatism, and secularization theory.
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Dromi, Shai M. and Stabler, Samuel D.
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PRAGMATISM , *SCHOLARS , *SOCIAL scientists , *PRAGMATICS , *SOCIALISM & religion - Abstract
Recent years have seen numerous sociological disagreements devolve into heated debates, with scholars openly accusing their peers of being both empirically wrong and morally misguided. While social scientists routinely reflect on the ethical implications of certain research assumptions and data collection methods, the sociology of knowledge production has said little about how moral debates over scholarship shape subsequent research trajectories. Drawing on the new French pragmatic sociology, this article examines how sociologists respond to criticisms of the moral worth of their research. The article outlines three typical responses: (1) accepting the criticism and changing direction completely; (2) accepting the criticism but changing discursive framing to incorporate existing research without being subject to critique; and (3) navigating through the debate by devising new research directions that do not trigger such criticism. To demonstrate, the article looks at how sociologists of religion responded, in their published scholarship, to criticisms of secularization theory as depreciating religious people and spiritual experience. Across the responses, we show that sociologists have included moral considerations in their empirical investigations, and have switched among several diverse moral justifications to address—and also avoid—criticism. We conclude by demonstrating that this model can be extended to other domains of sociological inquiry, including the study of gender-based wage inequality and methodological nationalism. The article highlights the importance of mapping the moral frameworks sociologists use for the sociology of knowledge and the sociology of morality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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22. COMPUTERIZED VS PENCIL AND PAPER COLLECTION OF NETWORK DATA.
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Corman, Steven R.
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SOCIAL scientists ,SURVEYS ,SOCIAL networks ,SOCIAL groups ,INFORMATION services ,SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
Computerized data collection is gaining favor among social scientists because it facilitates easy data management. Computerization is especially attractive to network researchers because of the large amount of data their studies require. This study sought to validate a computerized data collection technique by comparing it with a traditional pencil and paper survey. Results showed that the two produce comparable data, and that the computerized data shows somewhat higher criterion validity and test-retest reliability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1990
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23. Some Guidelines for the Development of Curriculum for Applied Anthropology.
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Clavner, Jerry
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Applied anthropology seeks to integrate anthropological values and knowledge with a rational approach to policy decision-making. This paper discusses some of the barriers faced by those who care about anthropology and are concerned with making a viable space for the discipline in the college curriculum. Anthropology teachers need to further refine what they do and what they are actually capable of doing. Teachers are encouraged to be honest and realistic in their dealings with students in promoting, marketing, and advocating applied anthropology. The paper concludes by raising a series of questions concerning the discipline of applied anthropology and its role in the curriculum, including: Is the activity designed to change individuals' attitudes, values, norms, or beliefs? What are the possible manifest and latent consequences of change of values? And is the activity designed to change the structure of the cultural and social institutions? (DB)
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- 1991
24. Why Do Social Scientists Organise Knowledge Exchange Events? A Qualitative Interview Study
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Tindal, Scott
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Organising and participating in Knowledge Exchange (KE) events represent a considerable commitment by social science academics. Yet academics' participation in KE activities is not professionally rewarded as are other academic endeavours, so why do they do it? Understanding academics' perspectives regarding their own motivations for engaging in KE activities is a lacuna within the literature which this article begins to address. Drawing on qualitative interview data with social scientists working within the Centre for Population Change (CPC), the analysis presented in this paper develops a typology of academics' motivations for committing to organise and host KE events. These are: (1) contractual obligation to research funders; (2) professional self-interest; (3) to recompense society. Their narratives are interpreted through a conceptual framework of the institutionalisation of KE practices through the impact agenda which has shifted institutional expectations and professional norms regarding 'good academic practice' within contemporary academia. This paper concludes that the institutional, political, and cultural landscape in which KE events exist has considerable consequences for how academics come to commit to such activities. Understanding this environment can add to our understanding of why academics participate in KE events, and thus why they happen at all.
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- 2020
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25. Positivism in Education: Philosophical, Research, and Organizational Assumptions.
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Peca, Kathy
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The basic concepts of the positivistic paradigm are traced historically in this paper from Aristotle through Comte, the Vienna Circle, empiricism, Durkheim, sociobehavioral theory, and organizational theory. Various concepts have been added, deleted, and transformed through positivism's history, but its fundamental basis has remained the same: Objective reality exists that can be known only by objective means. Underlying this reality are organizational principles, and, thus, reality is inherently ordered. The ultimate purpose of positivism is to control and predict human and natural phenomena. Sociobehavioral and organizational theory apply positivism's basic concepts to the study of society and organizations. Under this paradigm, sociobehavioral theorists view society as an independent entity with inherent order underlying society and individual behavior. Human behavior is studied as a natural type of behavior via the empirical method in order to control and predict human social behavior. Positivistic organizational theorists posit that organizations that are inherently ordered are independent entities that can be studied as a type of social structure by empirically testing organizational behavior with the ultimate goal of controlling and predicting organizational behavior. (Contains 35 references.) (RT)
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- 2000
26. Social Science Information & Documentation: Is the Time Ripe for a State of the Art?
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Hobohm, Hans-Christoph
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This paper discusses social science information needs and behavior. The first section describes the Bath studies on social science information behavior in the 1970s. The world "after Bath" is considered in the second section, including the development of large databases, information retrieval problems, and scholars' personal information collections. The third section addresses new conceptions in information science and practice, focusing on areas that suggest the need for re-investigation of social science needs and behavior, including advances in bibliometric methodology, changing the concept of the user to enlarge the perspective of information behavior to its context in the real world, and advances in information technology. Worldwide socioeconomic implications are addressed in the next section, including economic loss resulting from sub-optimal information infrastructures in developing countries, as well as problems in accessing information for practitioners in developing countries. (Contains 15 references.) (MES)
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- 1999
27. Paper, public works and politics: tracing archives of corruption in 1940s–1950s Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Gould, William
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POLITICAL corruption , *SOCIAL scientists , *PUBLIC works , *HISTORY of democracy , *HISTORY ,POLITICS & government of India - Abstract
In moving away from older linear narratives around the costs and benefits of ‘corruption’ to development and democratic processes, social scientists have tended to downplay temporality in their work on the phenomenon in the global South. Historical research, however, offers a different kind of nuance around moments in which corruption becomes important in political and administrative discourse. Examining archives on corruption in detail and comparatively poses different questions about the operation of the everyday state. It also provides alternative means for exploring the nature of citizenship, national belonging in India and how the disempowered are often unevenly affected by corrupt acts. Using two case studies in the Public Works Department during state transition in the late 1940s and early 1950s, in India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, this article examines how archives convey multiple and contingent meanings to early postcolonial discourses of ‘corruption’. Such archives present the phenomenon as a vehicle or symbolic resource for larger political processes over the period. This potentially challenges our perspective on some of the larger questions surrounding the early postcolonial state, the nature of civil/political society in that period for India, ideas of national belonging and the relationship between India and Pakistan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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28. On Second Chances and Stratification: How Sociologists Think about Community Colleges
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Schudde, Lauren and Goldrick-Rab, Sarah
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Community colleges increase college access--extending postsecondary educational opportunities to students who otherwise may not have access, but they also exhibit low rates of program completion and transfer to four-year colleges. Sociological research on community colleges focuses on the tension between increasing educational opportunity and failing to improve equity in college completion across key demographics, like race and socioeconomic status. This paper provides an overview of sociology's approach to understanding community colleges. We describe sociological theories, examine the contributions they make to the field, and discuss the discipline's recent debates regarding community colleges. We conclude by highlighting research areas for further progress and discussing the role sociology could play in transforming community colleges. [This paper was published in "Community College Review" v43 p27-45 Jan 2015 (EJ1046857).]
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- 2014
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29. Effects of Work Environment and Collaboration on Research Productivity in Vietnamese Social Sciences: Evidence from 2008 to 2017 Scopus Data
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Vuong, Quan-Hoang, Napier, Nancy K., Ho, Tung Manh, Nguyen, Viet Ha, Vuong, Thu-Trang, Pham, Hiep Hung, and Nguyen, Hong Kong To
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Identifying factors that affect research productivity is critical to both the scientific community and policy-makers. This topic is especially useful for developing countries like Vietnam where such studies are scarce with limited original data. This paper, through a manual data collection process that yields the profiles of 406 Vietnamese social scientists with publications in Scopus-indexed journals in 2008-2017, uses the ordinary least squares method to analyse the effects of two factors on research productivity. It adds to the literature by showing the extent to which (i) work environment ('universities' and 'research institutions'); (ii) collaboration affect the adjusted research productivity of social scientists. Contrary to the usual belief, university-affiliated authors in Vietnam turned out to have higher research productivity than institution-affiliated peers. International collaboration could boost research output, although this effect is insignificant among the high-performing authors. The paper also suggests some policy implications for Vietnam facing challenges in science management.
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- 2019
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30. Computer Competence for the Applied Gerontologist.
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Dickel, C. Timothy and Young, W. Wayne
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This paper shares some ideas regarding the use of computers by persons who use their gerontology training in direct service to older persons and their families. It proposes that, as professionals serving older persons and their families look toward the future, they need to conscientiously incorporate computer competence into their practice. The paper is divided into four parts. First, there is a brief discussion of the concept of computer competence which emphasizes that such competence is really computer fluency. Next, there is an overview of five common computer applications (word processing, electronic spreadsheets, database management, desktop publishing, telecommunications/data communications). Finally, a number of special topics are discussed that can have current and future benefit to applied gerontologists. These topics include hypertext, statistics packages, networking, artificial intelligence, and compact disc read only memory. The paper concludes that the possibilities seem limited only by the knowledge of the hardware and software available and by gerontologists' courage in plunging into this new area of professional practice. (ABL)
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- 1989
31. Diasporic Belonging in Religious Spaces: Insights from Within the Sri Lankan Diaspora.
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Ratnam, Charishma and Arambewela-Colley, Nadeeka
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DIASPORA ,PUBLIC spaces ,OUTDOOR photography ,SOCIAL scientists ,RELIGIOUS gatherings - Abstract
The changing social, cultural and physical characteristics and uses of public spaces by migrants are of longstanding interest to social scientists. Often embedded in uses of public spaces are splinters, resonances and connections to home and migration. This paper examines the religious spaces that Sri Lankan migrants engage with in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia. To untangle the complexities associated with these spaces, we integrate a framework of belonging that encompasses rituals, relationships and restrictions. A multilayered dataset, which includes interviews with the Sri Lankan diaspora, (auto)ethnography, field observations and photography, revealed that within the Sri Lankan diaspora, individuals often used religious spaces to maintain rituals and identities. The data uncovered that some participants in the diaspora used religious spaces to gather and socialise with other diaspora members while others had dynamic relationships with these spaces – that is, the meanings attributed to religious spaces were at times fraught with tensions and hostilities towards religious practice and feelings of welcome. In this paper, we offer a snapshot of a growing diaspora in Australia and their negotiations to belong (or not). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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32. Call for Papers.
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TELECOMMUNICATION , *TELECOMMUNICATION policy , *SOCIAL scientists , *BUSINESS planning , *TELECOMMUNICATIONS services - Abstract
The article reports that from the late 1970's onward, the global telecommunication industry has gone through several waves of regulatory and technological changes. Today, the very definition of telecommunication has changed. First, the traffic is no longer confined to voice and limited data services, but has become a fundamental pillar of the digital transformation that is affecting all aspects of our contemporary life.
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- 2022
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33. Call for Papers.
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TELECOMMUNICATION , *TELECOMMUNICATION policy , *SOCIAL scientists , *BUSINESS planning , *TELECOMMUNICATIONS services - Published
- 2022
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34. Invisible Hierarchies in Academic Work and Career-Building in an Interdisciplinary Landscape
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Ylijoki, Oili-Helena
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Interdisciplinarity has become one of the catchwords in current higher education and science policies, with the underlying rationale being that scientific breakthroughs and solutions to today's global challenges require collaboration across scientific fields. However, several empirical studies have shown that interdisciplinary promises are not necessarily realised in research practices, due to manifold cognitive, epistemic, cultural and organisational barriers. Drawing on interviews with women academics working in health technology in Finland, this paper traces subtle obstacles, hidden power relations and invisible hierarchies in interdisciplinary research work. A special emphasis is placed on understanding intersections of gender and interdisciplinarity, pointing to gendered implications of the current policy rhetoric of interdisciplinarity.
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- 2022
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35. 'What Is a Sociologist Doing in a School of Management?' Reflections on the Use of Sociological Concepts in Management Education
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Duarte, Fernanda
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Written from an auto-biographic perspective, this paper is based on reflections and insights arising from a journey of adaptation by a "sociologist-teaching-in-a-school-of-management". These reflections unveil the relevance to management studies of four interrelated conceptual tools: critical thinking, reflection, reflexivity and the sociological imagination. Examples of scaffolding activities and class exercises are provided throughout the paper to illustrate the usefulness of these concepts in management teaching. (Contains 5 footnotes.)
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- 2009
36. The social life of time and methods: Studying London's temporal architectures.
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Harris, Ella and Coleman, Rebecca
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TIME series analysis ,SOCIAL scientists ,BUILT environment ,ACQUISITIVENESS ,SOCIAL sciences education ,PAPER arts - Abstract
This paper contributes to work on the social life of time. It focuses on how time is doubled; produced by, and productive of, the relations and processes it operates through. In particular, it explores the methodological implications of this conception of time for how social scientists may study the doubledness of time. It draws on an allied move within the social sciences to see methods as themselves doubled, as both emerging from and constitutive of the social worlds that they seek to understand. We detail our own very different methodological experiments with studying the social life of time in London, engaging interactive documentary to elucidate nonlinear imaginaries of space-time in London's pop-up culture (Ella Harris) and encountering time on a series of walks along a particular stretch of road in south east London (Beckie Coleman). While clearly different projects in terms of their content, ambition and scope, in bringing these projects together, we show the ability of our methods to grasp and perform from multiple angles and scales what Sharma (2014) calls 'temporal architectures'. Temporal architectures, composed of elements including the built environment, commodities, services, technologies and labour, are infrastructures that enable social rhythms and temporal logics and that can entail a politicized valuing of the time of certain groups over others. We aim to contribute to an expanded and enriched conceptualisation of methods for exploring time, considering what our studies might offer to work on the doubled social life of time and methods, and highlighting in particular their implications for an engagement with a politics of time and temporality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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37. Researching Palestine at Birzeit: Prospects and Limits.
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Hilal, Jamil
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IMAGINATION ,SOCIAL scientists ,PALESTINIAN history ,POST-apartheid era ,BOOK collecting ,ORIGINALITY ,DEMOGRAPHY - Abstract
This book collects contributions from seven doctoral candidates at Birzeit University, focusing on different aspects of Palestine, particularly that part occupied in 1967. Palestine as history, geography, demography, and culture presents many challenges and numerous research issues that require originality, ingenuity, and imagination in thinking, methodology, theory, and narrative. The authors demonstrate originality and imagination in methodology, theory, and narrative while taking up key themes of resistance, identity, and literature. Although the papers do not ignore the general features of the Palestinian question, this review stresses the need to guard against reducing Palestine to a portion of its geography, and its population to a part of its own original citizens. The book represents a small but important step in meeting this challenge - of particular significance to Palestinian universities and social scientists - of producing knowledge that informs and concerns all the components of the Palestinian people in their diverse socio-economic, political, and cultural environments and combating setter colonialism and apartheid. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
38. Practicing critical physical geography: New trading zones and interactional expertise in an expanding field.
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Rader, Alana M., Biermann, Christine, Chignell, Stephen M., Clifford, Katherine R., Kelley, Lisa C., and Lave, Rebecca
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PHYSICAL geography ,SCIENTIFIC knowledge ,CARBON sequestration in forests ,SOCIAL scientists ,EXPERTISE ,PHYSICAL sciences ,POLITICAL ecology - Abstract
In 2014, an intervention paper was published in I The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe canadien i , calling for greater integration of physical and critical human geography, through an intellectual practice termed I critical physical geography i (Lave et al., [16]). Bruce Rhoads, one of the authors of the original CPG Intervention piece (Lave et al., [16]), phrased this critique clearly in a recent paper: [T]he extent to which CPG differs fundamentally from political ecology ... remains unclear. In doing so, the authors advance CPG scholarship by (1) creating new trading zones and creoles distinctive to CPG, and (2) developing and applying their own interactional expertise in ways that contribute to the fuller realization of CPG's three core tenets. Almost a decade after the publication of the initial CPG intervention piece, CPG is expanding into new topics (e.g., predator reintroduction, urban climatology), new methodologies (e.g., dendroprovenancing, network analysis), and new conversations with allied fields (e.g., Black Geographies, Indigenous Geographies, Queer Ecologies). [Extracted from the article]
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- 2023
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39. Women's Advancement in Political Science. A Report on the APSA Workshop on the Advancement of Women in Academic Political Science in the United States (Washington, DC, March 4-5, 2004)
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American Political Science Association, Washington, DC.
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In March 2004, the National Science Foundation funded a two-day workshop by the American Political Science Association (APSA) on the advancement of women in academic political science in the United States. The workshop was prompted by an alarming stall in the number of women entering the discipline and persisting through early years of faculty service to achieve tenure. More than two dozen social scientists from across the country convened in Washington, DC to hear relevant research, discuss problems, and frame corrective actions. This report describes their work and recommended actions. The body of this report refers to the research findings reported at the workshop, organizing them around four defining issues and their recommendations. The four defining issues are: (1) A leaking pipeline of prospective political scientists, as women drop out of graduate school or choose other careers; (2) A chronological crunch, in which the most intense demands for research, publications, and service in tenure-track positions overlap with the years of heaviest family responsibilities; (3) An institutional climate that is often inhospitable to women students and young faculty of both sexes, with too few professional development opportunities via mentoring and other interventions; and (4) A culture of research that offers insufficient opportunity and support for collaboration, peer workshopping of drafts, idea-sharing, and networking across, and within, institutions. The profession must improve the graduate school experience, institutional climate, early professorial years leading up to tenure, and the culture and style of performing research. Appendices C and D summarize research reports and participant comments in greater detail, including ideas for specific interventions from fifteen workshop participants who submitted thoughtful comments for this report. A list of the APSA Workshop participants; and the Workshop agenda are also appended.
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- 2005
40. Information System Design: A Case Study in the Generation of Innovations.
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Calabrese, Andrew M. and Acker, Stephen R.
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Arguing in the introduction that designing information systems must involve the integration of social/organizational as well as technical activities, and assuming that the contribution of social scientists studying innovation will be enhanced through increased participation in the design process, this paper presents a case study in the generation of innovation. The innovation under consideration is an electronic document delivery system (EDD) under development in the Office of Research at the Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), an international, nonprofit cooperative founded in the late sixties to serve libraries with automated cataloging services. For this study, data on OCLC was gathered intensively over a period of 18 months, beginning in 1979 and periodically in the years since that time. An argument is made in the paper for viewing information systems from a socio-technical perspective as early as possible in the design stage of innovation, since without consideration of the social, an idealized technical design concept may not move forward as a practical social system as it has been conceived. The literature of action research is reviewed for its relevant application to the generation of innovation, and several essential arguments are derived from the study. (Thirty-eight references are attached). (NH)
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- 1987
41. Who Gets on the AEA Program?
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Hinshaw, C. Elton and Siegfried, John J.
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SOCIAL scientists ,SOCIETIES - Abstract
Discusses the American Economic Association (AEA) program. Relation with the annual `Papers and Proceedings' issue of the `American Economic Review' journal; Difference from the Allied Social Science Associations; Trends in the institutional affiliation of participants in the program and authors of papers published in the `Papers and Proceedings'.
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- 1995
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42. Judges' Commentary: The Place I Called Home...
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Bloemhard, Heather, Chu, Tiffany, Cochran, Christa, Erickson, Keith, Ollhoff, Eleanor, Siemers, Troy, and Libertini, Jessica
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SOCIAL scientists ,INTERNALLY displaced persons ,HUMAN behavior ,ANALYTIC hierarchy process ,ENVIRONMENTAL risk - Published
- 2020
43. Social Science Information--The Poor Relation.
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Line, Maurice B.
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Several characteristics make the social sciences less amenable to bibliographic control than the sciences: inherent instability of the subject matter; the lack of a terminology that is common over time and across countries; strong political and national biases; low penalties for duplication of research; and an apparent lack of interest on the part of social scientists in improvement of information services. A large body of research carried out 25 years ago shed much light on the information needs and uses of social scientists and indicated means of improvement, but led to no action. In an information world radically changed by the Internet, researchers need to carry out new studies into information uses and needs. (Contains 10 references.) (Author/MES)
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- 1999
44. Learning academic work practices in discipline, department and university
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Zukas, Miriam and Malcolm, Janice
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- 2017
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45. Learning Academic Work Practices in Discipline, Department and University
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Zukas, Miriam and Malcolm, Janice
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Purpose: This paper aims to examine the everyday practices of academic work in social science to understand better academics' learning. It also asks how academic work is enacted in relation to the discipline, department and university, taking temporality as its starting point. Design/methodology/approach: The study sought to trace academic activities in practice. Within three universities, 14 academics were work-shadowed; social, material, technological, pedagogic and symbolic actors were observed and where possible connections and interactions were traced (including beyond the institution). This paper reports on a subset of the study: the academic practices of four early-career academics in one discipline are analysed. Findings: Email emerges as a core academic practice and an important pedagogic actor for early career academics in relation to the department and university. Much academic work is "work about the work", both in and outside official work time. Other pedagogic actors include conferences, networks and external Web identities. Disciplinary work happens outside official work time for the most part and requires time to be available. Disciplinary learning is therefore only afforded to some, resulting in structural disadvantage. Originality/value: By tracing non-human and human actors, it has emerged that the department and university, rather than the discipline, are most important in composing everyday work practices. A sociomaterial approach enables researchers to better understand the "black box" of everyday academic practice. Such an approach holds the promise of better support for academics in negotiating the demands of discipline, department and university without overwork and systemic exploitation.
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- 2017
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46. Editorials.
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LABOR disputes ,PAPER industry ,CATTLE industry ,CREATIVE ability ,ECONOMISTS ,SOCIAL scientists - Abstract
The national planning association, which is engaged in a comprehensive study of "the causes of industrial peace," has reported on one of the cases it has examined, that of the West Coast paper industry where there has been no stoppage of production for fourteen years. The unions and the management have settled their own disputes without outside intervention. The unions have been secure in their status, not fearful of attacks by management. It may be good politics, just before an election, to bring an anti-trust suit against the big-four packers at a time when meat prices are high, but they may be sure that the action is not the result of a sudden inspiration. Such cases are carefully prepared by months or years of research on the part of government lawyers and economists.
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- 1948
47. Migrant-led diversification and differential inclusion in arrival cities across Asia and the Pacific.
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Ye, Junjia and Yeoh, Brenda SA
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DIFFERENTIAL inclusions ,IMAGINATION ,SOCIAL scientists ,POWER (Social sciences) - Abstract
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- 2022
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48. The Tasks of Social Theory: Personal Calls for Papers.
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Bertilsson, Margareta, Delanty, Gerard, Giner, Salvador, Joas, Hans, Ivedelman, Birgitta, Outhwaite, William, Somers, Margaret, Sztompka, Piotr, Therborn, Goran, Wacquant, Loïc, Wagner, Peter, Piererse, Jan Nederveen, and Larrain, Jorge
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SOCIAL theory , *SOCIAL scientists , *SOCIOLOGISTS , *SOCIAL sciences , *PERIODICALS , *SOCIAL problems - Abstract
The article presents views of several sociologists regarding the future direction of social theory and its task in the 1st century. The growing strength of social theory has now placed it at a crossroads: it will have to decide whether it is going to become an overspecialized undisciplined within sociology or a central dimension to sociology, and to social science more broadly. One of the article authors is of the view that sociology is both a theoretical and an empirical discipline and it is important that these dimensions do not lose sight of each other. A second set of questions relates to the relationship between social theory and its public unction. Today sociologists are witnessing transformation in the production and legitimation of knowledge. Social theory needs to face up to the challenge of the democratic legitimation of knowledge. It will not be enough to resist specialization within sociology and social science. Another author is of the view that all the papers published in the journal should be interested in bridging the gap between the classical tradition of sociological theorizing and the sociologists' need to understand and solve contemporary social problems.
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- 1998
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49. Commentary on Bryan Dowd's Paper 'Separated at Birth: Statisticians, Social Scientists, and Causality in Health Services Research'.
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James O'Malley, A.
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MEDICAL research , *HEALTH programs , *SOCIAL scientists , *HEALTH facilities - Abstract
In this article the author comments on the medical research titled Separated at Birth: Statisticians, Social Scientists, and Causality in Health Services Research by Bryan Dowd. It highlights that views of statisticians and social scientists on the use of different approaches to causal inference. It investigates Dowd's use of use of different philosophical principles and language concerning causality, rather than the technical aspects of methods themselves which led to the separation theory.
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- 2011
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50. Pluralism and Rationality in the Social Sciences. Studies of Higher Education and Research.
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National Swedish Board of Universities and Colleges, Stockholm. and Johansson, Ingvar
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This paper looks at science from a sociological perspective while still trying to retain the aim of improving rationality. The paper claims that it is rational to have a methodological division of labor in science, in particular in the social sciences, and concludes that mono-methodological Crusonian rationality should be replaced by multi-methodological social rationality. The paper distinguishes among four different kinds of competition (parallel and counter, public-oriented and actor-oriented), and among three different kinds of rationality (technological, normal scientific, and philosophical), and then relates competition structures and rationality structures to each other. Finally, it discusses the particular case of rationality in the social sciences. This discussion focuses on research within economics and sociology that is public-oriented parallel competition, and rationality within social sciences that is similar to technology and applied natural science. The paper advocates a three-tiered methodological approach: (1) a single scientist cannot be fully rational; (2) all scientists should not conform to the same main methodological rules; and (3) science as a whole is rational when there is an interaction between the different rationalities. (6 references) (JDD)
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- 1990
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