Creative Factors in Scientific Research: A Social Psychology of Scientific Knowledge Studying the Interplay of Psychological and Cultural Factors in Science with Emphasis upon Imagination

1943 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 469
Author(s):  
Logan Wilson ◽  
Austin L. Porterfield
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Cultural Factors

Towards the Reform of the System of Epistemological Goals and Values

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-42
Author(s):  
Vladimir N. Porus ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Political Subjectivity ◽  
Scientific Communities ◽  
Historical Epistemology ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Political Structures ◽  
Principle Of Complementarity

Cultural and historical epistemology is not only a special branch of philosophical researches of science, but also the base of reform of a system of the epistemological categories expressing the purposes and values of scientific knowledge. Its need follows from the nature of development of modern science. Preservation of the traditional epistemological categories applied to the analysis of this development results in rough relativism. This danger can be eliminated, having developed the holistic system of epistemological values proceeding from the principle of historicism and “collective” understanding of the subject of scientific knowledge. Both of these bases allow to disclose historical and cultural conditionality of processes of scientific research and broadcast of their results. Such purposes and values of science as the truth and the objectivity of knowledge have historical measurement: they exist only in the course of continuous emergence and destruction, being affected by cultural factors. The collectivity of the subject of scientific knowledge is defined together with concepts of a “transcendental” and “individual and empirical” subject according to the principle of complementarity (N. Bohr) finding an epistemological transcription. The possibilities of political subjectivity of science in connection with the epistemological investigations from participation of scientific communities in political structures and movements are considered.

Landscape Renovation of Shantytowns in Industrial and Mining Cities Based on Social Psychology - In the Case of Copper Mining Shantytown of Tongling in Anhui Province

2014 ◽  
Vol 1073-1076 ◽  
pp. 1508-1518
Author(s):  
Da Zhi Gu ◽  
Jin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Anhui Province ◽  
Copper Mining ◽  
New Type

shantytown renovation is a significant livelihood project. So far, 9 years have passed since the launching of a national large-scaled shantytown renovation and certain experiences and lessons have been learnt. This paper has studied shantytown renovation project from theoretical perspective while combining with reality; meanwhile, this paper has narrowed down the scope of study by focusing on typical shantytown renovations in industrial and mining cities as representatives; finally, systematic and scientific research methods are applied to study landscape renovation and regeneration of shantytowns in the industrial and mining cities. Furthermore, experiences and laws are concluded by taking the shantytown renovation project of Tongling city (an ancient copper city in China) in Anhui province as an example so as to provide a new idea or direction for carrying out shantytown renovation activities in industrial and mining cities under the background of new-type urbanization.

scholarly journals The Search for One’s Own Ideology as the Primary Task of Social Power

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 420-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Shvaiba
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Primary Task ◽  
Human Power ◽  
Creative Force ◽  
Religious Ideal ◽  
The Ideal

Scientific knowledge of the historical future requires methodology. And methodology is the application of ideology in scientific research in General, and in research of social processes in particular. For example, religion is always an ideology. It is an illusory ideology. Illusory not because it cannot be as described by the religious ideal (that the ideal is unattainable). For Man, as for his creation — God — there is no unattainable and cannot be. Religion is illusory, not in the sense of an ideal, but in the sense that it cannot be and become in this way, through faith. Religion creates and strengthens (fixes) the ideal but proceeds from the fact that the ideal created by man is a creative force. But God is not power. It’s just a representation of human power. And what the person who created it expects from God is a human goal.

Patents and Scientific Research

2015 ◽  
pp. 135-155
Author(s):  
Sulan Wong
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Research Funding ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Patent System ◽  
Scientific Development ◽  
Patent Litigation ◽  
Definition Of

It is argued that patents encourage scientific development, benefiting society by creating useful products and services that improve the quality of life. However, by granting exclusive rights of exploitation, patents create situations in which they interfere with the exercise of the freedom of scientific research. This work examines five scenarios where this problem can be seen and the utilitarian function of patents is questioned. Firstly, the effects of research funding in the definition of the lines and research objectives are observed. Secondly, the anticommons is studied, as it is a situation where excessive fragmentation of ownership in scientific knowledge may prevent its use. Thirdly, broad patents and their implications are examined. Fourthly, the deterrent power of patent litigation, which creates an unexpected business model, is analyzed. Fifthly, secrecy is looked upon, as it is encouraged by the logic in which the patent system works.

Intimate entanglements in the animal house: Caring for and about mice

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carrie Friese
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Laboratory Animals ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Laboratory Mice ◽  
Intimate Knowledge ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Animal House

This article presents two vignettes from ethnographic research conducted in a ‘biological services unit’ or mouse house at a life sciences research institute in the UK. I focus on the ‘intimate knowledge’ two animal technicians demonstrated as crucial to care for the mice, where affective knowledge operated alongside scientific knowledge of animal welfare and administrative knowledge of keeping laboratory animals. I then show how caring for and about laboratory mice entailed caring about various other things, things that could help improve the lives of the mice. I thematize how the animal technicians ‘care about’ mice, using Astrid Schrader’s twin conceptions of compassion and ‘abyssal intimacy’. However, unlike Schrader and much of the literature focusing on the centrality of ‘sacrifice’ in scientific research involving laboratory animals, I contend that compassion is not centrally informed by death as the abyss here. Rather, the violent relatedness of being replaceable forms the abyss that makes compassion possible. It was the fact of caring about those with whom one becomes so intimately entangled, within the context of paid labour where one is replaceable, that formed the basis for compassion between animal technicians, mice and myself.

Popper and Reliabilism

1995 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 31-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Lipton
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Reliable Method ◽  
True Belief ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Karl Popper ◽  
Deductive Inference ◽  
Inductive Support ◽  
Radical Scepticism ◽  
Analysis Of Knowledge

Karl Popper attempted to give an account of scientific research as the rational pursuit of the truth about nature without any appeal to what he took to be the fictitious notion of non-demonstrative or inductive support. Deductive inference can be seen to be inference enough for science, he claimed, once we appreciate the power of data to refute theory. Many of the standard objections to Popper's account purport to show that his deductivism actually entails a radical scepticism about the possibility of scientific knowledge. Some of these objections appear unanswerable in the context of the traditional analysis of knowledge as justified true belief; but this is neither a conception of knowledge that Popper himself accepted nor one that is currently in fashion. Reliabilism, the view that knowledge is a true belief generated by a reliable method, is now a popular replacement for the traditional analysis and one that is closer to Popper's own conception of knowledge. My aim in this essay is to consider in brief compass the prospects of a reliabilist reading of Popper's account of science. Such a reading makes it possible to turn some of the standard objections and helps to show which of Popper's views should be accepted and which rejected.

scholarly journals JOURNALS OF SOCIAL SCIENCES IN SERBIA BETWEEN GLOBAL AND NATIONAL INTERESTS

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Semiz ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Scientific Productivity ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
National Interests

The paper problematizes the current situation and development perspectives of social science journals in Serbia in the context of global (international) and national interests. Scientific articles in national social science journals are commonly the most prevalent form of dissemination and production of scientific knowledge, standpoints and views, a clear indicator of research excellence of university teachers, as well as the indicator of the quality of scientific journals, and the quality of scientific research in general. Therefore, it is not surprising that national and global interests and values intertwine in the domain of national journals. The reference framework for the analysis of selected issues is placed within the range of existing scientometric and bibliometric research, as well as the legislation referring to scientific research, manner and procedures for the evaluation of research results, and election to academic titles. The analysis we conducted led to the general conclusion that national social science journals are in a gap between the national and global context. Although their significance is beyond question, by promoting national and cultural values and interests, they exist as insufficiently competitive and globally invisible media for transfer and valorization of scientific knowledge in the academic community. In addition to analyzing the implications of the current education policies, editorial policies of the journals and strategic solutions aimed at raising and evaluating the quality of national social science journals, and integrating them into global information system trends, the paper also proposes potential directions for further development of national social science journals as a prerequisite for raising scientific productivity in the domain of social sciences.

scholarly journals Interdisciplinary crossroads of ethnopolitology

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-11
Author(s):  
Oleg O. Rafalskiy ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Predictive Modeling ◽  
Scientific Knowledge

The article reveals the relevance of the synthesis in ethnopolitics of scientific knowledge acquired in various branches of science: ethnology, history, jurisprudence, social psychology etc. Specific political situations illustrate the complexity of ethnopolitical performance of conceptual and applied functions, which consist in describing and explaining events, their evaluation in the categories of morality and law as well as in predictive modeling. The question of strengthening the coordination component in the organization of ethnopolitical research is raised.

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