The Global Social Sciences

Author : Michael Vessuri, Hebe Kuhn
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783838208930

Get Book

The Global Social Sciences by Michael Vessuri, Hebe Kuhn Pdf

The European social sciences tend to absorb criticism that has been passed on the European approach and re-label it as a part of what the critique opposes; criticism of European social sciences by “subaltern” social sciences, their “talking back”, has become a frequent line of reflection in European social sciences. The re-labelling of the critique of the European approach to social sciences towards a critique from “Southern” social sciences of “Western” social sciences has somehow turned “Southern” as well as “Western” social sciences into competing contributors to the same “globalizing” social sciences. Both are no longer arguing about the European approach to social sciences but about which social thought from which part of the globe prevails. If the critique becomes a part of what it opposes, one might conclude that the European social sciences are very adaptable and capable of learning. One might, however, also raise the question whether there is anything wrong with the criticism of the European social sciences; or, for that matter, whether there is anything wrong with the European social sciences themselves. The contributions in this book discuss these questions from different angles: They revisit the mainstream critique of the European social sciences, and they suggest new arguments criticizing social science theories that may be found as often in the “Western” as in the “Southern” discourse.

Author : Johan Heilbron,Gustavo Sorá,Thibaud Boncourt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319732992

Get Book

The Social and Human Sciences in Global Power Relations by Johan Heilbron,Gustavo Sorá,Thibaud Boncourt Pdf

This volume employs new empirical data to examine the internationalization of the social sciences and humanities (SSH). While the globalization dynamics that have transformed the shape of the world over the last decades has been the subject of a growing number of scientific studies, very few such studies have set out to analyze the globalization of social and human sciences themselves. Arguing against the complacent assumption that Science is ‘international by nature’, this work demonstrates that the growing circulation of scholars and scientific ideas is a complex, contradictory and contested process. Arranged thematically, the chapters in this volume present a coherent exploration of patterns of transnationalization, South-North and East-West exchanges, and transnational regionalization. Further, they offer fresh insight into specific topics including the influence of the Anglo-American research infrastructure and the development of social and human sciences in postcolonial contexts. Featuring contributions from leading international scholars in the field, this work will advance the research agenda and will have interdisciplinary appeal for scholars from across the social sciences.

Author : Jean-Sylvestre Bergé,Sophie Harnay,Ulrike Mayrhofer,Lionel Obadia
Publisher : Springer
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319601809

Get Book

Global Phenomena and Social Sciences by Jean-Sylvestre Bergé,Sophie Harnay,Ulrike Mayrhofer,Lionel Obadia Pdf

This book offers new perspectives on global phenomena that play a major role in today’s society and deeply shape the actions of individuals, organizations and nations. In a complex and rapidly changing environment, decision-makers need to gain a better understanding of global phenomena to adapt and to anticipate the evolution of the global context. The authors—ten renowned international scholars of anthropology, economics, law, management and political science—propose an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to social sciences. They analyse how international phenomena, such as globalisation or transnationalisation, transform the disciplines of social sciences from an epistemological standpoint. Explaining what ‘global' means in difference disciplines, the authors analyse several global phenomena that characterise today’s international environment such as the circulation of norms and ideas, the linkages between war and globalization, corporate governance, and the impact of multinational enterprises on sustainable development and poverty reduction. Providing examples of analytical disciplinary approaches and guidelines for decision-makers in a fast-changing global context this book will be useful to scholars and students of anthropology, economics, law, management and political science as well as practitioners in the private and public sectors.

Author : Michael Kuhn,Hebe Vessuri
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783838268934

Get Book

The Global Social Sciences by Michael Kuhn,Hebe Vessuri Pdf

The European social sciences tend to absorb criticism of their approach and re-label it as a part of what the critique opposes; thus criticism of European social sciences by subaltern social sciences, their 'talking back,' has become a frequent line of reflection. The relabeling of the critique of the European approach as a critique from ‘Southern’ social sciences of ‘Western’ social sciences has in effect turned ‘Southern’ as well as ‘Western’ social sciences into competing contributors to the same ‘globalizing’ social sciences. Both are no longer arguing about the European approach to social sciences but about which social thought from which part of the globe should prevail. If the critique becomes a part of what it opposes, one might conclude that the European social sciences are very adaptable and capable of learning. One might, however, also raise the question whether there is anything wrong with the criticism of the European social sciences, or, for that matter, whether there is anything wrong with the European social sciences themselves. The contributions in this book discuss these questions from different angles: They revisit the mainstream critique of the European social sciences, and they suggest new arguments criticizing social science theories that may be found as often in the ‘Western’ as in the ‘Southern’ discourse.

Author : Wiebke Keim,Ercüment Çelik,Veronika Wöhrer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317127697

Get Book

Global Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences by Wiebke Keim,Ercüment Çelik,Veronika Wöhrer Pdf

An innovative contribution to debates on the internationalization and globalization of the social sciences, this book pays particular attention to their theoretical and epistemological reconfiguration in the light of postcolonial critiques and critiques of Eurocentrism. Bringing together theoretical contributions and empirical case studies from around the world, including India, the Americas, South Africa, Australia and Europe, it engages in debates concerning public sociology and explores South-South research collaborations specific to the social sciences. Contributions transcend established critiques of Eurocentrism to make space for the idea of global social sciences and truly transnational research. Thematically arranged and both international and interdisciplinary in scope, this volume reflects the different theoretical and thematic backgrounds of the contributing authors, who enter into dialogue and debate with one another in the development of a more inclusive, more representative and more theoretically relevant stage for the social sciences. A rigorous critique of the contemporary state of the social sciences as well as an attempt to find another way of doing transnational sociology, Global Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences will appeal to scholars of sociology, political science and social theory with interests in the production of social scientific knowledge, postcolonialism and transnationalism in research.

Author : Jeremy Adelman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350102538

Get Book

Empire and the Social Sciences by Jeremy Adelman Pdf

This thought-provoking and original collection looks at how intellectuals and their disciplines have been shaped, halted and advanced by the rise and fall of empires. It illuminates how ideas did not just reflect but also moulded global order and disorder by informing public policies and discourse. Ranging from early modern European empires to debates about recent American hegemony, Empire and the Social Sciences shows that world history cannot be separated from the empires that made it, and reveals the many ways in which social scientists constructed empires as we know them. Taking a truly global approach from China and Japan to modern America, the contributors collectively tackle a long durée of the modern world from the Enlightenment to the present day. Linking together specific moments of world history it also puts global history at the centre of a debate about globalization of the social sciences. It thus crosses and integrates several disciplines and offers graduate students, scholars and faculty an approach that intersects fields, crosses regions and maps a history of global social sciences.

Author : Simon Bastow,Patrick Dunleavy,Jane Tinkler
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446293256

Get Book

The Impact of the Social Sciences by Simon Bastow,Patrick Dunleavy,Jane Tinkler Pdf

The impact agenda is set to shape the way in which social scientists prioritise the work they choose to pursue, the research methods they use and how they publish their findings over the coming decade, but how much is currently known about how social science research has made a mark on society? Based on a three year research project studying the impact of 360 UK-based academics on business, government and civil society sectors, this groundbreaking new book undertakes the most thorough analysis yet of how academic research in the social sciences achieves public policy impacts, contributes to economic prosperity, and informs public understanding of policy issues as well as economic and social changes. The Impact of the Social Sciences addresses and engages with key issues, including: identifying ways to conceptualise and model impact in the social sciences developing more sophisticated ways to measure academic and external impacts of social science research explaining how impacts from individual academics, research units and universities can be improved. This book is essential reading for researchers, academics and anyone involved in discussions about how to improve the value and impact of funded research.

Author : Rickard Danell,Anna Larsson,Per Wisselgren
Publisher : Nordic Academic Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789187351051

Get Book

Social Science in Context by Rickard Danell,Anna Larsson,Per Wisselgren Pdf

One of the very first books to explore the role of the social sciences in historical, sociological, and global perspectives, it does so by analyzing the practical making and discursive aspects of social scientific disciplines, including sociology, economics, psychology, business and administration studies, social gerontology, gender studies, educational science, geography, and political science. It looks at them not only in their academic setting but also in extra-academic contexts and in a broader global setting. The volume includes 15 chapters written by an international and multidisciplinary group of scholars. The overall aim of the book is to encourage a contextual and reflexive understanding of the complex and dynamic relationship between the social sciences and society of the past and in today's globalized world. It is concerned with the bonds between the social sciences and society at large, including themes such as gender and power, science and politics, academic boundaries and global power relations, and postcolonial perspectives.

Author : George Modelski and Robert A. Denemark
Publisher : EOLSS Publications
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781848262188

Get Book

WORLD SYSTEM HISTORY-Volume I by George Modelski and Robert A. Denemark Pdf

World System History is a component of Encyclopedia of Social Sciences and Humanities in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. The Theme on World System History presents the study of the history of the world system. World system history offers an array of tools with which to apprehend the future. This volume discuss the essential aspects such as World-Systems Analysis; Big History; Epistemology of World System History: Long-Term Processes and Cycles; One World System or Many: The Continuity Thesis in World System History; World Population History; States Systems and Universal Empires; The Silk Road: Afro-Eurasian Connectivity Across the Ages; Dark Ages in World System History; The Kondratieff Waves as Global Social Processes; Globalization in Historical Perspective; Emergence of a Global Polity; World Urbanization: The Role of Settlement Systems in Human Social Evolution; Democratization: The World-Wide Spread Of Democracy in The Modern Age; The Rise of Global Public Opinion; East Asia In the World System; Incorporating North America into the Eurasian World-System. This volume is aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College Students Educators, Professional Practitioners, Research Personnel and Policy Analysts, Managers, and Decision Makers, NGOs and GOs.

Author : Stanislav Andreski
Publisher : Saint Martin's Griffin
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Social sciences
ISBN : 0312735006

Get Book

Social Sciences as Sorcery by Stanislav Andreski Pdf

Author : Frederick Cooper,Randall M. Packard
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520209575

Get Book

International Development and the Social Sciences by Frederick Cooper,Randall M. Packard Pdf

"This superb collection assembles a number of stimulating and theoretically current contributions by outstanding scholars."—Angelique Haugerud, author of The Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya

Author : Anol Bhattacherjee
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1475146124

Get Book

Social Science Research by Anol Bhattacherjee Pdf

This book is designed to introduce doctoral and graduate students to the process of conducting scientific research in the social sciences, business, education, public health, and related disciplines. It is a one-stop, comprehensive, and compact source for foundational concepts in behavioral research, and can serve as a stand-alone text or as a supplement to research readings in any doctoral seminar or research methods class. This book is currently used as a research text at universities on six continents and will shortly be available in nine different languages.

Author : Alexander L. George,Andrew Bennett
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262262897

Get Book

Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences by Alexander L. George,Andrew Bennett Pdf

The use of case studies to build and test theories in political science and the other social sciences has increased in recent years. Many scholars have argued that the social sciences rely too heavily on quantitative research and formal models and have attempted to develop and refine rigorous methods for using case studies. This text presents a comprehensive analysis of research methods using case studies and examines the place of case studies in social science methodology. It argues that case studies, statistical methods, and formal models are complementary rather than competitive. The book explains how to design case study research that will produce results useful to policymakers and emphasizes the importance of developing policy-relevant theories. It offers three major contributions to case study methodology: an emphasis on the importance of within-case analysis, a detailed discussion of process tracing, and development of the concept of typological theories. Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences will be particularly useful to graduate students and scholars in social science methodology and the philosophy of science, as well as to those designing new research projects, and will contribute greatly to the broader debate about scientific methods.

Author : Carol Johnson,Vera Mackie,Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781925022599

Get Book

The Social Sciences in the Asian Century by Carol Johnson,Vera Mackie,Tessa Morris-Suzuki Pdf

In this collection of essays, we reflect on what it means to practise the social sciences in the twenty-first century. The book brings together leading social scientists from the Asia-Pacific region. We argue for the benefit of dialogue between the diverse theories and methods of social sciences in the region, the role of the social sciences in addressing real-world problems, the need to transcend national boundaries in addressing regional problems, and the challenges for an increasingly globalised higher education sector in the twenty-first century. The chapters are a combination of theoretical reflections and locally focused case studies of processes that are embedded in global dynamics and the changing geopolitics of knowledge. In an increasingly connected world, these reflections will be of global relevance

Author : Dipankar Sinha
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429017995

Get Book

The Information Game in Democracy by Dipankar Sinha Pdf

This book examines democracy and governance from the unconventional and largely under researched vantage point of information. It looks at the exclusionary informational dynamics in democracy and analyses the role of information capitalism, new technology, virtual networks, cyberspace and media. While emphasizing the foundational value of information as the ‘source code’ of modern societies the book explains how it is strategically maneuvered in technologies of governance in so-called established and credible democracies. It studies the neutralization and subversion as well as the complex, nuanced and multidimensional act of othering of people, who are supposed to be the repository of power in democracy and in whose interest the business of governance is expected to be conducted. The work highlights the challenges of technocratic interpretations, stunted public policy communication, hyped information society, cooption through the state-of-the-art capitalism, rhetoric of virtual networks and the often-unilateral agenda of mainstream media. A major intervention in understanding the nature of contemporary democracy and polity, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics, media, political communication and technology studies.