In Search of the Grail: Biology, Social Science, and the Meaning of Human Nature

1993 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 455-458
Author(s):  
Garland E. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Human Nature

Human Rights between Jurisprudence and Social Science

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALEXANDRA HUNEEUS
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Social Science Theory ◽  
Science Theory ◽  
The One

AbstractThis article argues that human rights law – which mediates between claims about universal human nature, on the one hand, and hard-fought political battles, on the other – is in particular need of a richer exchange between jurisprudential approaches and social science theory and methods. Using the example of the Inter-American Human Rights System, the article calls for more human rights scholarship with a new realist sensibility. It demonstrates in what ways legal and social science scholarship on human rights law both stand to improve through sustained, thoughtful exchange.

The Quiet Resolution of the Science Wars

2021 ◽  
pp. 53-79
Author(s):  
Matt Grossmann
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Rational Choice ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Rational Choice Theory ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Confirmation Bias ◽  
Frequentist Statistics ◽  
Science Wars ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

The “science wars” were resolved surprisingly quietly. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, critics of science from humanities disciplines fought with scientists over the extent to which science is a social and biased process or a path to truth. Today, there are few absolute relativists or adherents of scientific purity and far more acknowledgment that science involves biased truth-seeking. Continuing (but less vicious) wars over Bayesian and frequentist statistics likewise ignore some key agreements: tests of scientific claims require clarifying assumptions and some way to account for confirmation bias, either by building it into the model or by establishing more severe tests for the sufficiency of evidence. This sedation was accompanied by shifts within social science disciplines. Debates over both simplistic models of human nature (especially over rational choice theory) and over what constituted proper quantitative and qualitative methods died down as nearly everyone became theoretically and methodologically pluralist in practice. I herald this evolution, pointing to its benefits in the topics we cover, the ideas we consider, the evidence we generate, and how we evaluate and integrate our knowledge.

A TEORIA DA MENTE ENTRE SEMÂNTICA E PRAGMÁTICA

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Crisbelli Domingos ◽  
Sebastião Lourenço dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Literary Study ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Basic Ideas ◽  
Adaptationist Program

In the past decade or so, a small but rapidly growing band of literary scholars, theorists, and critics has been working to integrate literary study with Darwinian social science. These scholars can be identified as the members of a distinct school in the sense that they share a certain broad set of basic ideas. They all take “the adapted mind” as an organizing principle, and their work is thus continuous with that of the “adaptationist program” in the social sciences. Adaptationist thinking is grounded in Darwinian conceptions of human nature (2004, p. 6).

The Pursuit of Human Nature in Sociobiology and Evolutionary Sociology

1994 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Maryanski
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Evolutionary Theory ◽  
Modern Synthesis ◽  
Interdisciplinary Science ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Biological Legacy ◽  
Historical Origins

Outside of sociology, evolutionary theory is once again commanding widespread attention in social science. Having sat out the spirited debates over sociobiology in the 1970s, most sociologists are largely unaware that the field has prospered and is now a respected, interdisciplinary science with a growing number of influential scholars within the social sciences. This article takes a critical look at sociobiology with a consideration of both its historical origins and its now modified theoretical stance, which is exemplified by Timothy Crippen's article “Toward a Neo-Darwinian Sociology.” In addition, this essay summarizes an alternative approach that might be called “evolutionary sociology.” While it also incorporates the Modern Synthesis, it uses established sociological methods and theory, along with primate data and the fossil and archaeological records, to consider the biological legacy of humankind.

scholarly journals Konsep Fitrah Manusia Dan Implikasinya Dalam Pendidikan Islam

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mualimin Mualimin
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Community Or ◽  
The Family

Human existence begins with a weakness and disability that will then move towards strength. Humans can easily utilize the grace and gift that is bestowed upon him, but man must fulfill a duty to his God. Human dignity with his Lord is not measured by how high his skill and position, his or her wealth, and his wealth. But when God measured it is his taqwa. Human beings in the Islamic perspective will remain born in a state of fithrah, that is pure, clean, free from all sin, and has the tendency to accept religion, faith, and faith. Humans become good or bad are the result of educational and environmental factors, not their original habits. According to Abd al-Rahman al-Bani quoted by an-Nahlawi states the task of Islamic education is to maintain and maintain the students' nature, then develop and prepare for all the potential possessed , by directing the nature and potential of existing and towards goodness and perfection, and realizing a program gradually. (Nahlawi, 1996) The development of human nature can be done with various learning activities. That is through an institution. The development of human nature can be done by learning activities. That is through various institutions. Learning that is not focused is through education only in school, but also can be done outside the school, whether in the family, in the community, or through the existing social science constitution.

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