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Author : K. Euston, Kim Euston-Brown, Sue Heese
Publisher : New Africa Books
ISBN 13 : 9781869282868
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (828 download)
Download or read book New Africa Social Science written by K. Euston, Kim Euston-Brown, Sue Heese and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : New Africa Books
ISBN 13 : 9781869282905
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (829 download)
Download or read book New Africa Social Science written by and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sue Heese
Publisher : New Africa Books
ISBN 13 : 9781869282912
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (829 download)
Download or read book New Africa Social Sciences written by Sue Heese and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nico Nortjé
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030154025
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Social Science Research Ethics in Africa written by Nico Nortjé and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives a voice to debates surrounding social science research ethics in Africa and brings them together in a coherent form to assist readers in being at the forefront of the discussions. The book gives an overview of the importance of research ethics in social sciences, as well as articulating the African influence on the subject matter. Subsequently it looks into specific frameworks and tools that researchers can apply in the process of doing research. Last but not least it also takes an in-depth look at traditional ethical issues pertaining to research in social sciences, through the lens of the African continent. This is the first book on social science research ethics in an African context and an indispensable resource for researchers, students, policy makers and research institutions in or interested in African research ethics.
Author : Robert H. Bates
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226039013
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Africa and the Disciplines written by Robert H. Bates and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-12 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Studies, contrary to some accounts, is not a separate continent in the world of American higher education. Its intellectual borders touch those of economics, literature, history, philosophy, and art; its history is the story of the world, both ancient and modern. This is the clear conclusion of Africa and the Disciplines, a book that addresses the question: Why should Africa be studied in the American university? This question was put to distinguished scholars in the social sciences and humanities, prominent Africanists who are also leaders in their various disciplines. Their responses make a strong and enlightening case for the importance of research on Africa to the academy. Paul Collier's essay, for example, shows how studies of African economies have clarified our understanding of the small open economies, and contributed to the theory of repressed inflation and to a number of areas in microeconomics as well. Art historian Suzanne Blier uses the terms and concepts that her discipline has applied to Africa to analyze the habits of mind and social practice of her own field. Christopher L. Miller describes the confounding and enriching impact of Africa on European and American literary theory. Political scientist Richard Sklar outlines Africa's contributions to the study of political modernization, pluralism, and rational choice. These essays, together with others from scholars in history, anthropology, philosophy, and comparative literature, attest to the influence of African research throughout the curriculum. For many, knowledge from Africa seems distant and exotic. These powerful essays suggest the contrary: that such knowledge has shaped the way in which scholars in various disciplines understand their worlds. Eloquent testimony to Africa's necessary place in the mainstream of American education, this book should alter the academy's understanding of the significance of African research, its definition of core and periphery in human knowledge. "These essays are at once exceptionally thoughtful and remarkably comprehensive. Not only do they offer an unusually interesting overview of African studies; they are also striking for the depth and freshness of their insights. This is the sort of volume from which both seasoned regional experts and students stand to learn an enormous amount."—John Comaroff, University of Chicago "These essays provide an important perspective on the evolution of African studies and offer insights into what Africa can mean for the different humanistic and social science disciplines. Many show in ingenious and subtle ways the enormous potential that the study of Africa has for confounding the main tenets of established fields. One could only hope that the strictures expressed here would be taken to heart in the scholarly world."—Robert L. Tignor, Princeton University
Author : Joël Noret
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1805393979
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Social Im/mobilities in Africa written by Joël Noret and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grounded in both theory and ethnography, this volume insists on taking social positionality seriously when accounting for Africa’s current age of polarizing wealth. To this end, the book advocates a multidimensional view of African societies, in which social positions consist of a variety of intersecting social powers - or ‘capitals’ – including wealth, education, social relationships, religion, ethnicity, and others. Accordingly, the notion of social im/mobilities emphasizes the complexities of current changes, taking us beyond the prism of a one-dimensional social ladder, for social moves cannot always be apprehended through the binaries of ‘gains’ and ‘losses’.
Author : Olorunnisola, Anthony A.
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1466641983
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (666 download)
Download or read book New Media Influence on Social and Political Change in Africa written by Olorunnisola, Anthony A. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2013-06-30 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While transitioning from autocracy to democracy, media in Africa has always played an important role in democratic and non-democratic states; focusing on politicians, diplomats, activists, and others who work towards political transformations. New Media Influence on Social and Political Change in Africa addresses the development of new mass media and communication tools and its influence on social and political change. While analyzing democratic transitions and cultures with a theoretical perspective, this book also presents case studies and national experiences for media, new media, and democracy scholars and practitioners.
Author : Claude Ake
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Social Science as Imperialism written by Claude Ake and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claude Ake's study is primarily concerned with what he terms 'the most perinicious form of imperialism' namely scientific knowledge. Ake analyses how Western social sciences, whether consciously or inadvertently, foist capitalist values and capitalist development on the Third World, and serve imperialist ends. He unravels the theory of political development/'westernisation', exposing its ideological character and condemning 'Western development studies as worse than useless'. He then develops his analysis of the imperialist and ideological characteristics of Western social sciences to posit alternatives which may more successfully overcome permanent underdevelopment; and advocates a struggle for a new model of social sciences which is socialist-orientated, and that developing countries reject Western models. The study was first published in 1979, revised in 1982, is newly reissued, and for the first time, widely available outside Africa. Claude Ake (1939-1996) was one of Africa's most distinguished political and social scientists and democrats of the twentieth century, writing widely and polemically on what were his life-long concerns of democracy and the future of the African continent.
Author : Ayesha Imam
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Engendering African Social Sciences written by Ayesha Imam and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 1997 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This was one of the most pioneering works in the field of gender and social sciences in the African context, and remains an authoritative text. It is an extensively researched and forcefully argued study offering a critique and directions for gendering the social sciences in Africa. The sixteen chapters cover methodological and epistemological questions and substantive issues in the various social science disciplines, ranging from economics, politics, and history, to sociology and anthropology. Thirteen scholars contribute, including the three distinguished women editors. The translation, which is edited from the English and newly introduced by the renowned feminist scholar Fatou Sow, is an achievement itself, an incursion into the notorious difficulties of translating what are notably Anglo-Saxon concepts of sex and gender into the French language and distinctive academic environment; of interpreting western concepts of feminism within the African environment; as well as being an opportunity to revisit what deserves to become a classic text and reach a wider audience.
Author : Angelo Flynn
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1776143566
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (761 download)
Download or read book Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences written by Angelo Flynn and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social science researchers in the global South, and in South Africa particularly, utilise research methods in innovative ways in order to respond to contexts characterised by diversity, racial and political tensions, socioeconomic disparities and gender inequalities. These methods often remain undocumented – a gap that this book starts to address. Written by experts from various methodological fields, Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences is a comprehensive collation of original essays and cutting-edge research that demonstrates the variety of novel techniques and research methods available to researchers responding to these context-bound issues. It is particularly relevant for study and research in the fields of applied psychology, sociology, ethnography, biography and anthropology. In addition to their unique combination of conceptual and application issues, the chapters also include discussions on ethical considerations relevant to the method in similar global South contexts. Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences has much to offer to researchers, professionals and others involved in social science research both locally and internationally.
Author : Phillips Stevens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Social Sciences and African Development Planning written by Phillips Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carol Coe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781869283100
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (831 download)
Download or read book New Africa Social Science and Economic Management Sciences written by Carol Coe and published by . This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Piet Naudé
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Tale of Three Countries written by Piet Naudé and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tshabangu, Icarbord
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799887731
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Future of Africa and Policy Development written by Tshabangu, Icarbord and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2022-03-11 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite several idealistic efforts towards a united Africa, the term remains a hypothetical concept symbolizing a desired federal state on the continent. While globalization and interconnectedness have brought prosperity in some parts of the world, Africa has not generally benefited from global decisions. These decisions, policies, and practices have tended to be wholly influenced by the rich and powerful countries and their transnational agencies and corporations in pursuit of their national interests. Faced with such enormous external economic and political forces, the divided and powerless African states have been unable to bargain for lucrative economic deals or pursue national interests for the benefit of their people, hence the need to examine what exists in varied fields and the emerging trends for the future. Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Future of Africa and Policy Development addresses critical issues and challenges in Africa and seeks to examine and understand the future trends in Africa through a deconstructive interrogation of present trends. Covering a wide range of topics such as sustainability, equality, and democracy, it is ideal for researchers, academicians, students, economists, policymakers, political parties, trade unions, and NGOs.
Author : Nancy Hafkin
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 080476624X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Women in Africa written by Nancy Hafkin and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1976-06-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers-all but one previously unpublished-presents the results of recent field research in the disciplines of history, political science, anthropology, sociology, and economics. The chief emphasis here is on change: on viewing African women as agents of change from the first arrival of Europeans to the present; and on seeking to change the perspective from which African women have been studied in the past. The papers encompass settings as diverse as eighteenth-century Senegal and contemporary Mozambique. Politically and socially, too, the local settings are various, including an Igbo village, the marketplaces of Abidjan and Accra, a development scheme in rural Tanzania, the churches of Freetown, and the streets of Mombasa. The contributors are Iris Berger, James L. Brain, George E. Brooks, Jr., Margaret Jean Hay, Barbara C. Lewis, Leith Mullings, Kamene Okonjo, Claire Robertson, Filomina Chioma Steady, Margaret Strobel, and Judith VanAllen.
Author : Samuel Agyei-Mensah
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401787158
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Changing Perspectives on the Social Sciences in Ghana written by Samuel Agyei-Mensah and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first compilation of its kind that brings together discussions of the evolution of scholarship in different branches of the Social Sciences. It presents a comprehensive multi-disciplinary text exploring the changing dynamics of the Social Sciences in Ghana, offering a broader perspective from which to view the evolution, theory, methods, substance and relevance of each of the Social Science disciplines and their multiple interfaces. The introduction and the conclusion are devoted to the theoretical, comparative and empirical debate over the Social Sciences from historical and analytical perspectives. Written by acknowledged experts, the 15 chapters span the following disciplines: Archaeology and Heritage Studies; History; Geography; Psychology; Sociology and Anthropology; Social Work; Economics; Political Science; International Affairs; Information Studies; Communication Studies; African Studies; Development Studies; Women’s and Gender Studies and Adult and Continuing Education. Changing Perspectives on the Social Sciences in Ghana offers sophisticated perspectives for comparing and appreciating the synergies, differences, trends and nuances among and between the Social Science disciplines in Ghana, in a holistic and scholarly manner.
Author : Nico Nortjé
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783030154042
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Social Science Research Ethics in Africa written by Nico Nortjé and published by Springer. This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives a voice to debates surrounding social science research ethics in Africa and brings them together in a coherent form to assist readers in being at the forefront of the discussions. The book gives an overview of the importance of research ethics in social sciences, as well as articulating the African influence on the subject matter. Subsequently it looks into specific frameworks and tools that researchers can apply in the process of doing research. Last but not least it also takes an in-depth look at traditional ethical issues pertaining to research in social sciences, through the lens of the African continent. This is the first book on social science research ethics in an African context and an indispensable resource for researchers, students, policy makers and research institutions in or interested in African research ethics.
