Social Sciences as a subject of philosophical and sociological discourse

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Андрей Орехов ◽  
Andryey Oryekhov
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Social Spiders ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Research Initiative ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Sociological Discourse ◽  
Philosophy Of Social Sciences

The monograph deals with the subject of social Sciences, as well as selected problems of philosophy of social Sciences, sociology of social Sciences and social theory in its relation to social spiders. It is intended for bachelors, masters and postgraduates studying philosophy, sociology, social theory, as well as other courses related to philosophical and methodological problems of social Sciences and Humanities. Work is executed at financial support of PFUR; research initiative № 100114-0-000 "Man and society in the context of modernity".

scholarly journals Augmented intelligence technology. The ethical and practical problems of its implementation in libraries

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Wójcik
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Information Science ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Scientific Databases ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject

PurposeThe subject of the article is the concept of augmented intelligence, which constitutes a further stage in the development of research on artificial intelligence. This is a new phenomenon that has rarely been considered in the subject literature so far, which may be interesting for the fields of social sciences and humanities. The aim is to describe the features of this technology and determine the practical and ethical problems associated with its implementation in libraries.Design/methodology/approachThe method of literature review was used. Systematic searches according to specific questions were carried out using the Scopus and Web of Science scientific databases, as well as Google Scholar and the LISTA abstract database.FindingsThe results established that the issue of augmented intelligence has barely been discussed in the field of librarianship. Although this technology may be interesting as a new area of librarian research and as a new framework for designing innovative services, deep ethical consideration is necessary before this technology is introduced in libraries.Research limitations/implicationsThe article deals with some of the newest technologies available, and this topic is generally very rarely discussed in scientific publications in either the social sciences or humanities. Therefore, due to the limited availability of materials, the findings presented in the article are primarily of a conceptual nature. The aim is to present this topic from the perspective of librarianship and to create a starting point for further discussion on the ethical aspects of introducing new technologies in libraries.Practical implicationsThe results can be widely used in practice as a framework for the implementation of augmented intelligence in libraries.Social implicationsThe article can help to facilitate the debate on the role of implementing new technologies in libraries.Originality/valueThe problem of augmented intelligence is very rarely addressed in the subject literature in the field of library and information science.

THE CURIOUS HISTORICAL DETERMINISM OF RANDALL COLLINS

2003 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
BARBARA MISZTAL ◽  
DIETER FREUNDLIEB
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Global Theory ◽  
China And India ◽  
The Social ◽  
Medieval China ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Intellectual Creativity

Randall Collins' The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change (1998) examines and compares communities of intellectuals linked as networks in ancient and medieval China and India, medieval and modern Japan, ancient Greece, medieval Islam and Judaism, medieval Christendom and modern Europe. The book has been the subject of many interesting and often positive reflections (for example, European Journal of Social Theory 3 (I), 2000; Review Symposium or reviews in Sociological Theory 19 (I), March 2001). However, it has also attracted a number of critical reviews (for example, reviews in Philosophy of the Social Sciences 30 (2), June 2000). Since not many books achieve such notoriety, it is worthwhile to rethink Collins' controversial approach. The aim of this paper is to encourage further debates of notions and issues presented in Collins' book. We would like, by joining two voices—sociologist and philosopher—to reopen discussion of Collins' attempt to discover a universality of patterns of intellectual change, as we think that more interpretative rather than explanatory versions of our respective disciplines can enrich our understanding of blueprints of intellectual creativity.

scholarly journals Practical Theology as part of the landscape of Social Sciences and Humanities – A transversal perspective

2013 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian C. Müller
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Practical Theology ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Interdisciplinary Dialogue ◽  
University Of Pretoria ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Practical Theological ◽  
The University ◽  
Interdisciplinary Process

At the University of Pretoria the author, a practical theologian, experiences a fruitful soil for the development of an interdisciplinary process. He referred to concrete examples of cooperation, but used the article to reflect on best practices for the interdisciplinary dialogue. He came to the conclusion that it probably made more sense to talk of Practical-theological alternatives rather than to describe the subject in a single fixed manner of understanding and action. Our goal should rather be to open up the boundaries between Practical Theology, Human, Social and Natural Sciences.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

2008 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. xi-xi
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Legal Counsel ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Original Proposal ◽  
The Social ◽  
National Archives ◽  
Canada Grant

This volume has been many years in the making. I first discovered examples of wives and husbands suing each other in Requests in 1989 while pursuing doctoral research. Pat Stretton and Jane Martindale independently suggested that the cases were worthy of publication, and Jane helped to bring this idea to the attention of the literary editors of the Royal Historical Society. I thank them both. Since then the editors of the Camden Series, Andrew Pettegree and Ian Archer, have provided support and shown unstinting patience for a project that has seasonally burst the banks of its projected deadlines. I am grateful to them, to the anonymous reviewer of the original proposal for pointing out the need to determine the frequency with which cases of this type came into Requests, and to the National Archives for permitting the cases to be reproduced. For financial support I wish to acknowledge the generosity of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, grant-giving bodies within Waikato University, Dalhousie University, and Saint Mary's University, and Lyndan Warner. A number of scholars, archivists, and friends have provided advice as well as technical help in identifying legal counsel, deciphering handwriting, and translating Latin abbreviations. I would like to thank Christopher Brooks, Sara Butler, Sabina Flannagan, Elizabeth Foyster, Lamar Hill, Martin Holt, Wilfrid Prest, and the helpful staff at the National Archives, especially Amanda Bevan, Sean Cunningham, Alistair Hanson, and Malcolm Mercer. All of them are absolved of responsibility for any of the errors that remain. For the generosity of their hospitality during the compiling and editing of this volume, I would like to offer my gratitude to Gareth Edwards, Frances Wedgwood, Nick Manglaras, Francesca Amirato, and the Tewsons. Final thanks go to Lyndan Warner, for her support, her comments on the introduction, and her willingness to look after our children while I made annual visits to London and Kew.

scholarly journals The Ontology of Symbolic Reality in the Philosophy of F.T. Mikhailov

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-36
Author(s):  
K.V. Sorvin ◽  
A. Mert
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Multiple Selves ◽  
The Social ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Symbolic Reality ◽  
Material Form ◽  
The Ideal

This paper addresses one of the main topics of the works of the famous Russian philosopher F.T. Mikhailov aimed at overcoming the oversimplified conception of the relation between the biological and the social origins of human being, in the context of the methodological problems in the social sciences that have characteristic representations of the transcendence of society over individual. It is shown that the solution proposed by the philosopher was related to the revision of the dominant notions about the ground of the subject-subject unity and the ontology of the symbolic objects that provide this unity. In particular, the disintegration of the ‘activity approach’ in psychology into the concepts of A.N. Leontyev and S.L. Rubinstein, that are called by Mikhailov ‘antinomical’, is associated with the limited reliance on the methodological traditions of Spinozism, in which there was no idea about the reflexive type of subject-subject relation as opposed to the methodology of "late Fichte", with his characteristic position on the initial identity based on multiple selves. It is argued that the most adequate categories for description of the ontological connections between the ideal content and the material form in symbolic objects that provide such an identity can be found in Hegel's aesthetic works.

scholarly journals What Is Theory? Puzzles and Maps as Metaphors in Communication Theory

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Iulia Nastasia ◽  
Lana F. Rakow
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Good Theory ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
Map Reading ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Puzzle Solving ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Is Theory

Many handbooks, books, and articles in communication studies offer definitions of theory, as well as approaches to what are the features of theory or what makes a good theory and to what are the functions of theory or what makes a theory useful. In this essay, we configure a taxonomy of definitions of and approaches to theory through a cross-disciplinary perspective, by reflecting on the different views on theory in the discipline of communication in the broader context of views on theory at the intersection of the physical sciences, social sciences, and humanities. We argue that a preeminent tendency, theory as puzzle-solving or map-reading, with its varieties science and investigation, is predominant in communication studies, based on a subject-object schism and on the preexistence of the object to the subject. We also argue that a counteracting tendency, theory as puzzle-making or map-making, with its varieties interpretation and inquiry, has been posited as an alternative in communication studies, based on a subject-object communion and on the creation of objects by subjects.

scholarly journals Wybrane problemy metodologiczne badań procesów globalizacji

2008 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 107-115
Author(s):  
Stanisław Sala
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Homogeneous Process ◽  
The Social ◽  
Interdisciplinary Problems ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Selection Of

The paper presents an attempt to identify methodological problems in the research into the processes of globalization. Originally globalization was treated as a homogeneous process, leaving its impress on the ground of economic and social sciences. Later, however, scientists realized that globalization triggers a lot of processes, part of which are known, but many of which we are not aware of. In this context, it is more proper to write and talk not about globalization but about the processes of globalization. The author understands the processes of globalization as a whole of the processes which occur on the social- economic and political plane. The processes lighten mutual connections between countries, regions or single people, and their consequences. According to the author, the main problems in the research into processes of globalization are: problems with defining the subject of research, lack of proper methodology and methods of research, interdisciplinary problems and problems with objectivity of facts. The selection of proper research methods to conduct the research into the processes of globalization poses a lot of difficulties. They result from the fact that geography has worked out a lot of detailed research methods, used to describe quantitative phenomena, which are the essence of globalization, using qualitative methods. At this stage of research, the essence of globalization can be captured by using systematic approach in an idiographic sense.

scholarly journals Morphogenetic social theory: more questions than answers

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 7-17
Author(s):  
Andrey Orekhov ◽  
◽  
Alexander Efimenkov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Analytical Methods ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Knowledge Development ◽  
Contemporary Philosophy ◽  
The Status ◽  
Philosophy Of Social Sciences

Introduction and the aim of the study. The paper analyzes the place and role of morphogenetic theory within a framework of contemporary socialtheoretical discourse. M. Archer’s morphogenetic theory and P. Donati’s relational conception are considered as two examples of this discourse. Methods. The authors use analytical methods (analysis, synthesis, etc.), applied in contemporary philosophy of social sciences. Scientific novelty. The key idea of the paper is analyzing morphogenetic social theory in terms of analytical scholasticism as a deviant way of contemporary social theory development. Results. Morphogenetic theory is rather a sociological theory than interdisciplinary social theory; the sophisticated language of “morphogenists” mat seem difficult for other scholars to understand; morphogenetic theory demonstrates indefinite perspectives concerning interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary discourse in the context of contemporary stage of social-humanitarian knowledge development. Conclusions. The status of “morphogenetic theory” among other directions of social theory is by far “peripheral”.

scholarly journals What Is Theory? Puzzles and Maps as Metaphors in Communication Theory

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Diana Iulia Nastasia ◽  
Lana F. Rakow
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Good Theory ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
Map Reading ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Puzzle Solving ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Is Theory

Many handbooks, books, and articles in communication studies offer definitions of theory, as well as approaches to what are the features of theory or what makes a good theory and to what are the functions of theory or what makes a theory useful. In this essay, we configure a taxonomy of definitions of and approaches to theory through a cross-disciplinary perspective, by reflecting on the different views on theory in the discipline of communication in the broader context of views on theory at the intersection of the physical sciences, social sciences, and humanities. We argue that a preeminent tendency, theory as puzzle-solving or map-reading, with its varieties science and investigation, is predominant in communication studies, based on a subject-object schism and on the preexistence of the object to the subject. We also argue that a counteracting tendency, theory as puzzle-making or map-making, with its varieties interpretation and inquiry, has been posited as an alternative in communication studies, based on a subject-object communion and on the creation of objects by subjects.

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