scholarly journals Paradigmality in modern political science research: from interdisciplinarity to author conceptuality

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 24-32
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Tokovenko ◽  
Oleksii Tretiak
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Political Scientist ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Professional Perspective ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Political Epistemology ◽  
Scientific Truth

The article discusses the discourse on the methodological foundations of political science research and the need to outline the existing paradigms of political science research, both in the temporal-retrospective dimension and in the dimension of the subject area. It is emphasized that the determinants of defining the value of paradigm in modern political science research is the prospect of acquiring scientific novelty at the stage of determining the research topic. The focus is on the need for a more thorough consideration of specific paradigmatic means of determining the methodological design of contemporary political science research. It is noted that on the basis of linguistic analysis of subject aspects of political science, one can easily see the multivariate interpretation of many essential concepts of the modern political sphere. It is argued that one can also see expansive interpretations of particular concepts and processes from a non-professional perspective. The importance of interdisciplinary natural science paradigms has been established. Attention is paid to identifying the possibility of forming a new conceptual apparatus, taking into account the concepts that have become widespread in the scientific environment. The role of the concept of "paradigm approach in modern political science" is revealed, which is aimed at understanding the peculiarities of considering political science subject within other scientific disciplines. It is proved that the leading task of paradigm as a discipline of political science is the formation of paradigmatic choice of young researcher. The peculiarities of searching for a scientist’s own «paradigm face» have been found. The ability to use the task of defining scientific novelty is emphasized to some extent. The specificity of choosing a paradigm vector of a researcher-political scientist with consideration of the requirements of interdisciplinarity is considered. The purpose of the article is to identify paradigm in political studies as a factor in the formation of authorial conceptualism against the backdrop of interdisciplinary imperatives. The purpose of the article is to highlight the main directions of paradigm and their correlation with modern political theories. It is proved that the choice of the paradigm vector of the researcher-political scientist is confronted with interdisciplinary, first of all philosophical meanings of cognition as a form of social activity. The idea that choosing one’s own paraligmal vector for a specialist political scientist is presented is important because of the need to overcome the Soviet and post-Soviet paradigmatic provinces. It turned out that the formation of the national paradigm of political science, which should be carried out only on condition that the fullest representation of all paradigm directions. The situation of paradigm choices and orientation of political scientist researcher in the world paradigm mainstream is revealed. The necessity of finding a researcher in the environment of those paradigms that give the most significant scientific result is proved. The article establishes that the combination of the universality of interdisciplinary paradigms and the optionality of paradigms for a particular political science study is carried out on the basis of a conceptual and categorical apparatus of political epistemology. It is argued that on the basis of the notion of "scientific truth (episteme)", the formation of the author’s own attitude to the subject of research and the prospect of solving his problem is carried out.

Heuristische Textpraktiken in den Wissenschaften

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-46
Author(s):  
Michael Bender ◽  
Marcus Müller
Keyword(s):  
Science Research ◽  
Annotation Scheme ◽  
Scientific Debate ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Current State ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Textual Practices ◽  
Collaborative Annotation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
State Of Research

AbstractThis article contains a comparative study of heuristic textual practices in various scientific disciplines. By this we mean formulation practices with which new knowledge is generated in institutionally influenced routines and connected to existing knowledge, e. g. ‚highlighting the relevance of a research topic‘, ‚defining a concept‘ or ‚supporting a statement argumentatively‘.The aim is to find out to what extent such textual practices occur in different scientific disciplines, how they are distributed and combined. Furthermore, we study the effects domain-specific contexts have on heuristic textual practices. The data basis of our study is a corpus of 65 dissertations from the 13 different faculties of the TU Darmstadt. In the pilot study we report here, we examined the introductory chapters of the dissertations. Methodologically, it is an annotation study: Based on the current state of research on the subject, we have derived a basic annotation scheme, which we have developed and refined in a collaborative process of guideline creation. Our study affiliates on socio-pragmatic research on text production and formulation routines in the sciences. It is theoretically informed by the philosophy of science research on heuristics, methodically we make a contribution to the scientific debate on collaborative annotation procedures.

scholarly journals Regional studies and political science. The theory of the dual unity of Silesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 199-222
Author(s):  
Lech Rubisz
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Regional Studies ◽  
Political Scientist ◽  
The Status

This paper concerns the status of regional studies in political science research. Analysing the theory of the dual unity of Silesia presented by the Polish political scientist Józef Kokot, the author attempts to formulate theoretical criteria that make a region an object of interest for political scientists and regional studies, a subdiscipline of political science.

scholarly journals Manoeuvring the Complexities of Field Research in Africa: Experiences from Voter Turnout Research in Ghana

2020 ◽  
pp. 213-219
Author(s):  
Fortune Agbele ◽  
Alexander Stroh
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Science Field ◽  
Entry Strategies ◽  
Professional Network ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
The Subject

Field research enables interaction between a researcher and research participants, offering an opportunity for the discovery of primary empirical data. As exciting as field research can be, for a novice researcher or research in unfamiliar terrain, community field research can also be daunting. These challenges may include, but are not limited to, the determination of community entry strategies, identification of potential respondents, as well as dealing with the non-availability of respondents. Based on field experiences, this research note offers practical suggestions on how to deal with these challenges within the realm of political science fieldwork. The experiences from a Voter Turnout research in Ghana shared in this note are of particular relevance to field research designs in the subject area of voter participation, focusing on voters as informants rather than experts or members of a professional network. Keywords: Field Research; Political Science; Field Strategies; Voter Turnout.

scholarly journals A Bibliometric Analysis of COVID-19 across Science and Social Science Research Landscape

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 9132
Author(s):  
Aleksander Aristovnik ◽  
Dejan Ravšelj ◽  
Lan Umek
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Venn Diagram ◽  
Scientific Disciplines

The lack of knowledge about the COVID-19 pandemic has encouraged extensive research in the academic sphere, reflected in the exponentially growing scientific literature. While the state of COVID-19 research reveals it is currently in an early stage of developing knowledge, a comprehensive and in-depth overview is still missing. Accordingly, the paper’s main aim is to provide an extensive bibliometric analysis of COVID-19 research across the science and social science research landscape, using innovative bibliometric approaches (e.g., Venn diagram, Biblioshiny descriptive statistics, VOSviewer co-occurrence network analysis, Jaccard distance cluster analysis, text mining based on binary logistic regression). The bibliometric analysis considers the Scopus database, including all relevant information on COVID-19 related publications (n = 16,866) available in the first half of 2020. The empirical results indicate the domination of health sciences in terms of number of relevant publications and total citations, while physical sciences and social sciences and humanities lag behind significantly. Nevertheless, there is an evidence of COVID-19 research collaboration within and between different subject area classifications with a gradual increase in importance of non-health scientific disciplines. The findings emphasize the great need for a comprehensive and in-depth approach that considers various scientific disciplines in COVID-19 research so as to benefit not only the scientific community but evidence-based policymaking as part of efforts to properly respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals Patriotism as the subject of discursive practices in Russia

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.13) ◽  
pp. 51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yury Grigoryevich Volkov ◽  
Anna Vladimirovna Vereshchagina ◽  
Anatoly Vladimirovich Lubsky ◽  
Ivan Viktorovich Gubarev ◽  
Viktoriya Olegovna Vagina
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Specific Content ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The Subject

Discourses of the patriotism in Russia represent presentations of its study results in the framework of such scientific disciplines, as philosophy, history, political science, sociology and psychology. Within the framework of these disciplines, the patriotism is studied, taking into account various paradigmatic preferences, first, ontological, axiological, identification and behavioural content. The diversity of the paradigmatic foundations of research practices generates in the discourse the most diverse ideas about the patriotism in Russia. These representations, filled with the specific content, are, as a rule, of disciplinary unilateral and paradigmatic limited nature. The conceptual comprehension of the patriotism in Russia, as an integral social reality presupposes the development of a multidimensional methodological construct of its holistic scientific study. 

scholarly journals HUMAN AND CITIZENSHIP IN THE CONTEXT OF PARADIGMAL POLITICAL SCIENCE MEASUREMENT

2018 ◽  
pp. 8-19
Author(s):  
Fedir Kyryliuk ◽  
Viktor Melnyk
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Physical Nature ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
The State ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
Solid Foundation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of

The critical analis of the centennial stage of the institutionalization of political science makes it possible to draw a paradoxical conclusion — political science is the science of debate and about debate. This is explained not only by the complexity of the methodological use of political science principles or by its poor integration in the subject area of other social (or behavioral) sciences. The main problems of political science are terminological uncertainty and methodological Abstraction. Each new approach in political science really can completely change the essence of its theoretical construction. By introducing the term “Civil Political Science” into broad terms, the authors hope to make a step towards the structural determinacy of political science and give it a solid foundation — the problem of a person as a citizen. Civic political science is intended to improve political science, to arrive from the destructive influence of etatism, which is only masked by ideological stamps and reduces the very idea of the state (as an organism at the same time social, legal, created by a citizen-man for a citizen-man). Applying for the new principles of civil political science, the authors hope to begin the process of “deetatization” of political science in order to serve the true interests of the state — the interests of citizenship. It should not be forgotten that only citizens determine and produce statehood by the fact of their existence. Man as a citizen was formed in the process of human transition from the wild stage of existence to settled life. The struggle of instincts of physical against moral feelings was accompanied by the whole process of political evolution of communities — from the primitive order to the present day. It did not pass the institute of citizenship, which was largely intended to reconcile the instinctive nature of man as a biosocial being (let us recall the patriarchal definition of Roman law). Consequently, the reconciliation of morality and physical nature within a person should be recognized as the prevailing tendency of civil political science.

scholarly journals EVOLUTION OF ETHNIC IDENTITY IN MULTINATIONAL RUSSIAN REPUBLICS AS EVALUAT ED BY FOREIGN POLITICAL SCIENTISTS: FROM "SOVIETNESS" TO POST-SOVIET DEVELOPMENT (on the example of Bashkortostan, Tatarstan and Buryatia)

2021 ◽  
pp. 7-15
Author(s):  
Rushan GALLYAMOV ◽  
◽  
Igor KUCHUMOV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Political Scientist ◽  
Monographic Study ◽  
Foreign Author ◽  
The Subject ◽  
First Time ◽  
Further Development

The subject of the article is analysis of ethnic identity evolution of Bashkirs, Tatars and Buryats throughout XIX–XX centuries. The object of the study is a monographic study by Polish historian and political scientist Wojciech Zajączkowski. The aim of the article is to determine the main theoretical and applied conclusions of the author of the monograph as applied to the three Russian ethnic groups. The objectives are based on the study of the peculiarities of the author's analysis, the methodological basis used by him, the identification of original conclusions regarding the chronology and the main stages in the evolution of the ethnic identity of the abovenamed peoples. The article demonstrates the necessity of using the author's latest methods of political science research, advantages of comparative analysis, non-contradictory provisions of primordialist and constructivist scientific approaches. For the first time an analysis of the little-known in Russian historiography work of the foreign author is given, his achievements and shortcomings are critically appraised, his advantages are shown, the use of which can be a factor in the further development of Russian ethnopolitology.

Business and Politics: A Critical Appraisal of Political Science

1959 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Dahl
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Political Scientist ◽  
The Public ◽  
Business And Politics ◽  
The Subject ◽  
To Come ◽  
Peter Drucker

For all the talk and all the public curiosity about the relations between business and politics, there is a remarkable dearth of studies on the subject. What is written is more likely to come from the pen of a sociologist, an historian, a lawyer, or an economist than from a political scientist. One would suppose that the role of business, particularly big business, in the political system would be a matter of central concern to political scientists. And so it may be. But those who write about it are men like Adolph Berle, a lawyer, C. Wright Mills, a sociologist, and Robert Brady, an economist; nor can political scientists legitimately lay claim to Peter Drucker, whose professional training and interests in business antedated his academic position as a teacher of political science.

Being True and Being You: Race, Gender, Class, and the Fieldwork Experience

2009 ◽  
Vol 42 (02) ◽  
pp. 311-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erica Townsend-Bell
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Political Scientist ◽  
Fieldwork Experience ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Fieldwork advice has increased and improved over the years. Yet, the bulk of political science fieldwork advice is general; it assumes that the subject to whom advice is given is simply a political scientist—in training, perhaps—with no other salient identities that might intercede (but see Mazzei and O'Brien 2005 and thePS2006 fieldwork symposium, The Methodologies of Field Research in the Middle East, for recent exceptions). Of course in reality it is not just the fieldwork setting that varies; the relationship of the researcher to the field matters a great deal—and that may be much more dependent on our specific identities than we have previously credited. It is not simply the subjects that we study, but us as well who have to negotiate sometimes sticky issues of race, class, gender, nationality, and so forth.

A Theoretical Exploration of Turnout and Voting

2019 ◽  
pp. 35-58
Author(s):  
Daron R. Shaw ◽  
John R. Petrocik
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
Vote Choice ◽  
Initial Report ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Political Groups

This chapter addresses the fundamental question of why people vote in elections. What affects their calculus? How much do these motivations create the unequal turnout rates observed among different social and political groups? The review informs the book’s initial report of how the decision to vote might (or might not) be related to partisan vote choice. Popular commentary in the media and academic literature, some of which has a reformist orientation, is assessed to provide a balanced portrait of what is known about the turnout bias. Particular attention is paid to political science research on the subject of turnout bias, including both normative and empirical works that yield little consensus.

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