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The Structural Change of Knowledge and the Future of the Social Sciences

Author : Ronald Pohoryles
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351659332
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Structural Change of Knowledge and the Future of the Social Sciences written by Ronald Pohoryles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a compendium of pragmatism in the social sciences. While addressing several distinct spheres, it carries a common message: the future of the social sciences depends on a shared understanding of society based on the knowledge of various disciplines and transcending the currently forbidding borders between scientific knowledge and the other forms of knowledge. Looking back at the social science traditions this is nothing new. To ensure a fruitful future for the social sciences a paradigm shift is unavoidable. The consequence of the increase of knowledge in the last two centuries was the specialization of the sciences. The nineteenth century saw the separation of humanities and social sciences; the twentieth century is even characterized by specialization within the disciplines and the occurrence of competing schools of thought. This book tries to overcome the barriers that are built between and within the disciplines, and to counteract the unnecessary barriers created by the emergence of "schools of thoughts" that distrust each other and the social sciences as a whole. This book was originally published as a special issue of Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research.

Social Science Research

Author : Anol Bhattacherjee
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781475146127
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book Social Science Research written by Anol Bhattacherjee and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Knowledge Matters

Author : Richard E. Lee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351509926
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Knowledge Matters written by Richard E. Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic changes and political changes which emerged with the modern capitalist world-economy were accompanied in the sociocultural domain by changes in the structures of knowledge. These included the hierarchical separation of the realm of facts from that of values, institutionalized as a division between the sciences and the humanities. The social sciences responded to contradictions inherent in this structure over the nineteenth century in producing knowledge on which policy decisions could be based. The problems of the contemporary period indicate we are in a long-term, structural crisis. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches through which social analysts and observers alike seek to understand the world. Since the 1960s, developments in the field of knowledge, especially two movements complexity studies in the natural sciences and cultural studies in the humanities have contested the naturalized, essentialist boundaries separating the sciences, the social sciences and the humanities. The primary rationale for this work is to recognize the inseparable whole composed of the material structures of the world and the structures of knowledge that govern what actions may be deemed legitimate and effective. 'Knowledge Matters' discusses what actions will actually be undertaken by social agents, and what such an approach means for an analysis of the present situation in terms of imagining and evaluating possible futures.

The Social Sciences at a Turning Point?

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264172920
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book The Social Sciences at a Turning Point? written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1999-05-04 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this proceedings, authoritative experts and policy makers examine the current state and status of the social sciences and present their views on what needs to be done.

Virtual Knowledge

Author : Paul Wouters
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262304821
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Virtual Knowledge written by Paul Wouters and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of emerging forms of knowledge creation using Web-based technologies, analyzed from an interdisciplinary perspective. Today we are witnessing dramatic changes in the way scientific and scholarly knowledge is created, codified, and communicated. This transformation is connected to the use of digital technologies and the virtualization of knowledge. In this book, scholars from a range of disciplines consider just what, if anything, is new when knowledge is produced in new ways. Does knowledge itself change when the tools of knowledge acquisition, representation, and distribution become digital? Issues of knowledge creation and dissemination go beyond the development and use of new computational tools. The book, which draws on work from the Virtual Knowledge Studio, brings together research on scientific practice, infrastructure, and technology. Focusing on issues of digital scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, the contributors discuss who can be considered legitimate knowledge creators, the value of “invisible” labor, the role of data visualization in policy making, the visualization of uncertainty, the conceptualization of openness in scholarly communication, data floods in the social sciences, and how expectations about future research shape research practices. The contributors combine an appreciation of the transformative power of the virtual with a commitment to the empirical study of practice and use. Contributors Anne Beaulieu, Sarah de Rijcke, Bas van Heur, Smiljana Antonijević, Stefan Dormans, Sally Wyatt, Matthijs Kouw, Charles van den Heuvel, Andrea Scharnhorst, Rebecca Moody, Victor Bekkers, Clement Levallois, Stephanie Steinmetz, Paul Wouters, Clifford Tatum, Nicholas W. Jankowski, Jan Kok

Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science

Author : Michael Martin
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262631518
Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science written by Michael Martin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: the first comprehensive anthology in the philosophy of social science to appear since the late 1960s

The Impracticality of Practical Research

Author : Thomas Stanley Popkewitz
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472126423
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book The Impracticality of Practical Research written by Thomas Stanley Popkewitz and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is an alluring desire that research should lead us to find the practical knowledge that enables people to live a good life in a just and equitable society. This desire haunted the 19th century emergence of the social sciences as a discipline, then became more pronounced in the postwar mobilizations of research. Today that desire lives on in the international assessments of national schools and in the structure of professional education, both of which influence government modernization of schools and also provide for people’s well-being. American policy thus reflects research in which reforms are verified by “scientific, empirical evidences” about “what works” in experiments, and “will work” therefore in society. The book explores the idea that practical and useful knowledge changes over time, and shows how this knowledge has been (re)visioned in contemporary research on educational reform, instructional improvement, and professionalization. The study of science draws on a range of social and cultural theories and historical studies to understand the politics of science, as well as scientific knowledge that is concerned with social and educational change. Research hopes to change social conditions to create a better life, and to shape people whose conduct embodies these valued characteristics—the good citizen, parent, or worker. Yet this hope continually articulates the dangers that threaten this future. Thomas Popkewitz explores how the research to correct social wrongs is paradoxically entangled with the inscription of differences that ultimately hamper the efforts to include.

The Future of Sustainability Education at North American Universities

Author : Naomi Krogman
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 1772126667
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book The Future of Sustainability Education at North American Universities written by Naomi Krogman and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2023-02-10 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores sustainability education in the North American academy. The authors advocate for a more integrated approach to teaching sustainability in order to help students address the most pressing problems of the world, embrace experimentation, and foster more meaningful involvement with the communities in which universities are located. Throughout, they remain focussed on identifying opportunities for sustainability in higher education and suggesting specific strategies and tactics to achieve them. Recommendations include pedagogical and structural changes aimed at helping students understand the systems in which they can advance sustainability. This timely volume will be of interest to scholars, academic leaders, policy makers, societal partners in research, and private-sector leaders interested in advancing the sustainability agenda. Contributors: Apryl Bergstrom, Christopher G. Boone, Ann Dale, Thomas Dietz, Roger Epp, Allison F.W. Goebel, Kourosh Houshmand, Robert H. Jones, Naomi Krogman, Shirley M. Malcom, Robert E. Megginson, Patricia E. (Ellie) Perkins, Vicky J. Sharpe, Toddi A. Steelman

Knowledge and the Social Sciences

Author : Open University
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415222853
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book Knowledge and the Social Sciences written by Open University and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a clear introduction to key philosophical and epistemological issues in the social sciences, to both positivist and interpretative methodologies through comparing contemporary debates surrounding social change.

Beyond Sociology's Tower of Babel

Author : Bernard S. Phillips
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780202364261
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Sociology's Tower of Babel written by Bernard S. Phillips and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going far beyond a programmatic effort to sketch what prevents sociologists from dismantling their tower of Babel and what might be done in the future, Phillips sets forth a second, heuristic image, that of a "web". He presents one illustration after another to document each aspect of a web approach to the scientific method, an approach that opens up to the theories and methods that have been developed within every substantive area of the discipline. His approach is similar to other developments of a synthetic orientation, that would link "micro" with "macro" phenomena. To the extent that the utility of the web approach holds up to empirical testing and comes to be established, it holds out to sociologists the promise of achieving the cumulative development and credibility that are hallmarks of any science. The book should be useful for courses in method, in the classical tradition of sociology, and in undergraduate seminars where the theoretical underpinnings of the discipline are taken up.

Revolution in the Social Sciences

Author : Bernard S. Phillips
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739171992
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Revolution in the Social Sciences written by Bernard S. Phillips and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolution in the Social Sciences centers on integrating knowledge from sociology, psychology, anthropology, history, political science and economics in order to confront increasing worldwide problems that threaten all of us. That integration of knowledge of human behavior is essential for understanding those problems, given their enormous complexity coupled with the highly specialized nature of the social sciences and their limited communication across specialized fields. It carries further the ideas developed by the Sociological Imagination Group in the seven books it has published since its founding in 2000 (www.sociological-imagination.org): Beyond Sociology's Tower of Babel, Toward a Sociological Imagination, The Invisible Crisis of Contemporary Society, Understanding Terrorism, Armageddon or Evolution? Bureaucratic Culture and Escalating World Problems, and Saving Society. In addition to visible problems like war and terrorism with weapons of mass destruction that are becoming ever more threatening, there are relatively invisible problems. For example, there is an increasing gap between what people throughout the world want--including a decent standard of living and freedom from patterns of hatred like racism, sexism and ageism--and what they are in fact able to get. There is, then, an increasing aspirations-fulfillment gap, largely produced by the "revolution of rising expectations" over the past five centuries. Political leaders who attempt to confront problems can only make limited progress on them, largely because of the failure of social scientists to integrate their knowledge and thus yield the understanding of these complex problems that is required.

Why Context Matters in Educational Leadership

Author : Colin Evers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000542467
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Why Context Matters in Educational Leadership written by Colin Evers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-20 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Context Matters in Educational Leadership: A New Theoretical Understanding is unique in the field of educational leadership studies. This book offers a systematic account of educational leadership from the perspective that context matters. It argues that studies of leadership in education can only progress if the importance of context is understood and presents context as a set of constraints under which leadership is exercised. A theoretical book that offers at last three major challenges to dominant positions in the field in a systematic way, it provides a new, coherent, and more realistic way to think about leadership in context.The chapters offer concrete steps for complex problem-solving in schools and will help schools tailor solutions to local constraints and circumstances. Written by leading scholars Colin W. Evers and Gabriele Lakomski, this book will be essential reading for students and researchers working in the fields of education, educational administration and leadership.

Scientific Methods for the Treatment of Uncertainty in Social Sciences

Author : Jaime Gil-Aluja
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319197045
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Scientific Methods for the Treatment of Uncertainty in Social Sciences written by Jaime Gil-Aluja and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of selected papers presented at the SIGEF conference, held at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Girona (Spain), 06-08 July, 2015. This edition of the conference has been presented with the slogan “Scientific methods for the treatment of uncertainty in social sciences”. There are different ways for dealing with uncertainty in management. The book focuses on soft computing theories and their role in assessing uncertainty in a complex world. It gives a comprehensive overview of quantitative management topics and discusses some of the most recent developments in all the areas of business and management in soft computing including Decision Making, Expert Systems and Forgotten Effects Theory, Forecasting Models, Fuzzy Logic and Fuzzy Sets, Modelling and Simulation Techniques, Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms and Optimization and Control. The book might be of great interest for anyone working in the area of management and business economics and might be especially useful for scientists and graduate students doing research in these fields.

The Sustainable University of the Future

Author : Mariam Ali S A Al-Maadeed
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031201868
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book The Sustainable University of the Future written by Mariam Ali S A Al-Maadeed and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sustainable University of the Future discusses the rapid changes taking place within institutions of higher education—changes that have pushed universities to reconsider their traditional policies and plans. The book, which has its origins in the Qatar University Annual Research Forum and Exhibition (QUARFE) event “University of the Future” examines the many ways universities are trying to keep pace with this transformation, despite regional and international challenges. The book looks at the role of universities in meeting the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the impact of Industry 4.0, the social aspects of University 4.0, and the future of research-based universities. The need to adopt modern programs and tools is stressed, and ways to anticipate and plan for future challenges are explored.

Knowledge Economy, Development and the Future of Higher Education

Author : Michael A. Peters
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9087903499
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (879 download)

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Book Synopsis Knowledge Economy, Development and the Future of Higher Education by : Michael A. Peters

Download or read book Knowledge Economy, Development and the Future of Higher Education written by Michael A. Peters and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reflects on the post-war Western university and its discourses charting the crisis of the concept of the modern university.

The Social Sciences at a Turning Point?

Author : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher : Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Sciences at a Turning Point? written by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and published by Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development. This book was released on 1999 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social sciences in OECD countries -- The prospects of European social science -- Challenges and opportunities for the social and behavioural sciences -- Rethinking the social sciences? A point of view -- Social sciences in the Dutch Foresight Exercise -- Social science organisation and policy issues in Germany -- Social science research and policy in Japan -- Social Sciences in a transition economy : the case of Poland.

Social Science Research and Government

Author : Martin Bulmer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521323509
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Social Science Research and Government written by Martin Bulmer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-02-26 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of twenty original essays considers the relationship between social science research and government during the last 30 years in Britain and the United States especially the economic and social policies of Reagan and Thatcher governments. These essays will be useful to social science staff, graduate students and to policy-makers working inside government.