Legal History between the Humanities and Social Sciences

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 349-353
Author(s):  
Julia Stephens
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Social History ◽  
Hybrid Method ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Legal History ◽  
New Work ◽  
Qualitative Case Studies ◽  
Recent Trends

Abstract This Kitabkhana contribution situates Beshara Doumani's Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean: A Social History within recent trends in the field of legal history. Doumani's hybrid method, which combines quantitative analysis with qualitative case studies, presents a particularly fruitful model for new work in the field.

scholarly journals How Children in Germany Experience Refugees: A Contribution From Childhood Studies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabine Andresen ◽  
Sascha Neumann ◽  
Ulrich Schneekloth
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Refugee Children ◽  
Childhood Studies ◽  
Representative Survey ◽  
Fourth World ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Qualitative Case Studies ◽  
World Vision

AbstractThis paper deals with perceptions, encounters and experiences of children with refugees and refugee children in Germany. It is based on the Fourth World Vision Children Study, which is regularly conducted in Germany since 2007. The study is based on a representative survey among 6- to 11-year-old children, which was combined with qualitative case studies and focuses on children´s well-being, their fears, their concerns as well as their attitudes toward other societal groups and contemporary political issues. For the survey of the Fourth World Vision Children Study, in the questionnaire there were also items included which should allow collecting data on children´s encounters and experiences with refugees, and particularly refugees who are their peers. This paper presents the approach taken in the study and how it is embedded conceptually in childhood studies before reporting and discussing selected findings on the experiences of children in Germany with refugees in their neighbourhood and among their peers. The findings presented in this paper refer to contact as well as interactions and opportunities for establishing friendships between refugee and non-refugee children. This is followed by a discussion of the implications these findings have in terms of consequences for supporting refugee children when arriving at Germany. In the conclusion, we will finally point out the implications of our study for the broader field of childhood studies in social sciences.

scholarly journals Girls in the UK have similar reasons to boys for intending to study mathematics post-16 thanks to the support and encouragement they receive

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamjid Mujtaba ◽  
Michael Reiss
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
Qualitative Case Studies ◽  
Mathematics Motivation ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Academic Year

This paper focuses on the aspirations of 13- and 15-year-olds to continue with mathematics after the age of 16 and the association with perceptions of their mathematics education during the academic year 2008/9. A quantitative analysis was undertaken on the views of 12,176 UK students, obtained through surveys, with qualitative case studies on two of these students lending support to the quantitative findings. This paper also places a focus on a sub-set of 1,476 London students. The analysis indicates that girls and boys with high mathematics aspirations had similar responses towards their mathematics teachers and lessons, and had comparable extrinsic mathematics motivation. However, girls, regardless of mathematics aspirations, were less likely than boys to be encouraged by their families and others within their social circles to study mathematics post-16. Many of the London findings are similar to those we found across the UK, although girls within London schools with high mathematics aspirations perceived their mathematics education to be more equitable. Low aspiring girls across the UK and in London still reported less support and encouragement, and described their mathematics education less favourably than did boys.

Introduction

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ido Shahar ◽  
Iris Agmon
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Social History ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Legal Anthropology ◽  
Theme Issue ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
Islamic Legal History ◽  
Scholarly Attention

AbstractIn this essay, we aim at placing the articles included in this theme issue in the wider context of the field by examining two general questions: First, why has the shari'a court and its associated socio-legal arena received little scholarly attention until the 1990s? Second, why has this situation changed in the last decade? Until recently, most scholars working in Islamic legal history, social history and legal anthropology were hardly interested in the courts and their legal practices. We argue that this omission was caused by the academic traditions that shaped these three sub-disciplines and that established a division of labor between and among them. In addition, we argue that the recent spike in interest in shari'a courts in all three sub-disciplines is a result of internal criticism within each field and of broad methodological and epistemological changes in the humanities and social sciences.

scholarly journals Vers une sociologie historique de la justice québécoise. Réflexion en marge d'un ouvrage récent sur la justice civile sous le régime français

2005 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 409-417
Author(s):  
Jean-Guy Belley
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Social History ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Historical Sociology ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Civil Justice ◽  
Research Orientation ◽  
History Of ◽  
French Regime

Over the last decade a new trend has emerged in Quebec legal history of which professor J.A. Dickinson's recent book on civil justice under the French Regime is most typical. With quantitative analysis of judicial records as methodology, this research orientation intends to offer a genuine contribution to social history. While recognizing its merits on that account, this paper warns against minimizing the distorsion inherent to the reflection of social life found injudicial records. It is suggested that historical studies ofthat kind should be more properly considered — and with great theoretical benefits — as pertaining to an historical sociology of justice.

Nonwovens: Global Trends in World Economy, European Foreign Trade, and Selected Case Studies from Poland and Asian Brics Countries

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zofia Wysokińska ◽  
Tomasz Czajkowski ◽  
Katarzyna Grabowska
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
World Economy ◽  
World Market ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Textile Materials ◽  
Brics Countries ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Special Case

AbstractNonwovens are one of the most versatile textile materials and have become increasingly popular in almost all sectors of the economy due to their low manufacturing costs and unique properties. In the next few years, the world market of nonwovens is predicted to grow by 7%–8% annually (International Nonwovens & Disposables Association [INDA], European Disposables and Nonwovens Association [EDANA], and Markets and Markets). This article aims to analyze the most recent trends in the global export and import of nonwovens, to present two case studies of Polish companies that produce them, and to present one special case study of the market of nonwoven geotextiles in China and India, which are the Asian transition economies among the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa).

Ronald Lockley and the Archipelagic Imagination

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damian Walford Davies
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social History ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Autobiographical Narratives ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
Dynamic Research

Ronald Lockley (1903–2000), distinguished naturalist, pioneering conservationist, author in multiple genres, and paradigmatic modern ‘island dweller’, played a crucial role in defining our sense of Welsh and wider archipelagic ‘islandness’. Drawing on ‘nissology’—a dynamic ‘research frontier’ that brings together the arts, sciences, and social sciences to scrutinize not only islands ‘in their own terms’, but also the complex cultural condition of islandness—this chapter offers an analysis of how Welsh island space is mediated through Lockley’s plethora of discourses, from autobiographical narratives of island existence to definitive field studies and scientific papers, to works of popular anthropology, social history, and the novel Seal Woman (1974). It demonstrates how Lockley’s construction of a series of relational Welsh identities is linked to wider British and global archipelagic locations of culture.

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