Reflections on Culture and Social-Scientific Models

2005 ◽  
Vol 124 (3) ◽  
pp. 515 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeba A. Crook
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Models ◽  
Social Scientific

Becoming Heretical: Affection and Ideology in Recruitment to Early Christianities

2011 ◽  
Vol 104 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kendra Eshleman
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Models ◽  
The Road ◽  
Center Stage ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Ritual Practices

A growing consensus recognizes that the differences among Christians in the late second and early third centuries were neither as obvious nor as great as representatives of later orthodoxy would have us believe, and that what divided Christians in this period were not so much different beliefs and ideas as different hermeneutical and ritual practices. This article approaches the same conclusion from a different angle: from the perspective of potential recruits to Christianity, drawing on social-scientific models of conversion. For them, the peculiarities of doctrine and even of practice that obsess ancient polemicists and modern scholars were often largely invisible. While those features could take center stage for mature converts—and hence in retrospective accounts of conversion—they seem to have played little role in bringing people to specific versions of the faith in the first place. Rather, for many Christian recruits, the road to “orthodoxy” or “heresy” began not in ideological attraction, but in attachments to family, friends, and patrons already inside the group.

The Hermeneutical Framework of Social-Scientific Criticism: How much can Evangelicals get involved?

2003 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-22
Author(s):  
Kenneth Berding
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Models ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Social Scientific

How can an evangelical read and benefit from the writings of the socalled social-scientific critic? To what extent can an evangelical participate in this approach to interpreting the Bible? This article seeks answers to these questions. It lays out and evaluates the hermeneutical assumptions and methodology of some of the most prolific writers among those practicing social-scientific criticism. The conclusion is that there are a couple fundamental issues at stake, a few non-fundamental differences of degree, but many potential areas of benefit for the evangelical interpreter who wants to draw upon cultural-anthropological and social-scientific models in interpreting the Bible.

scholarly journals ’n Verruimde invalshoek tot die verlede? Die sosiaal-wetenskaplike benadering tot die Nuwe Testament

1991 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. J. Joubert
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Scientific Models ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Social Scientific

A broadened perspective to the past? The social scientific approach to the New Testament This paper focuses on the possibilities that the social scientific approach holds out for the understanding of the New Testament. A review of the contributions of the sociological and the cultural anthropological approaches to the New Testament is undertaken before the social-scientific approach as a whole is evaluated. The use of social-scientific models, in particular, in the construction of the possible social contexts of the New Testament documents, is evaluated in terms of the ability of these contexts to establish ‘new’ systems of meaning.

Toward a Dialogue with Historical Sociology

1987 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivier Zunz
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Historical Sociology ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Scientific Models ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
The Past ◽  
Social Science History ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Joint Enterprise

A Commitment to interdisciplinary dialogue should not mask the unwieldy complexity of “social science history,” this strange-sounding compound word invented to stress the equality of partners in their joint enterprise. Some of the benefits as well as the difficulties inherent in crossing disciplinary boundaries can be detected, from a historian’s point of view, in Theda Skocpol’s Vision and Method in Historical Sociology (1984) in which a group of young historical sociologists and two “sociologically acclimated social historians” reassess the work of major figures in the subfield of historical sociology. approached this book with considerable excitement, for at the time of its publication, I had just sent to press the manuscript of Reliving the Past (1985), a volume in which five historians of different regions of the world reappraise the use of social-scientific models in historical analysis, examine the ways in which these models are applicable to different geographic areas and take a fresh look at the place of social history within history. To add to my excitement, Charles Tilly, who contributed an essay on European social history to Reliving the Past, was one of the nine major figures whose work was examined in Vision and Method, a testament to the influential role this scholar has played in the two disciplines of sociology and history.

scholarly journals Paul’s method of influence in 1 Thessalonians

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Bruce Button
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
Interaction Model ◽  
Good News ◽  
Scientific Models ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
In Christ ◽  
Social Scientific

Although the field of leadership in the New Testament and in the Pauline Letters has receiveda great deal of attention, there are still many issues over which scholars disagree. It is proposedin this article that the ongoing use of insights from social-scientific models can help to clarifysome of these issues. Those models should not be used in such a way as to impose themselveson the biblical text or the historical data, but to clarify concepts, create analytical categoriesand sensitise the New Testament scholar to new questions which can be asked of the text in itshistorical context. The article seeks insights from the power/interaction model of French andRaven, and analyses 1 Thessalonians in terms of some categories and concepts coming fromthe model. It is found that the primary way in which Paul sought to influence the Thessaloniancommunity was by preaching the gospel and living a life that conformed to its values. Thegospel as the good news of God’s salvation in Christ is God’s means of creating faith in andtransforming the lives of those whom he calls.

scholarly journals Integrating tsunami risk assessments in development planning: lessons from Western India

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Bradley ◽  
Serge Guillas ◽  
Garima Jain ◽  
Cassidy Johnson ◽  
Cassidy Johnson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Development Planning ◽  
Scientific Models ◽  
Risk Assessments ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Scientific Uncertainty ◽  
Western India ◽  
Science And Policy ◽  
Tsunami Risk ◽  
Social Scientific

A natural, if idealised, picture of the role of risk assessments in planning sees decision-makers drawing on the risk projections provided by natural and social scientific models and fashioning policies or plans that maximise expected benefit relative to this information. In this paper we draw on our study of the use tsunami science in development planning in Western India to identify ways in which this idealised picture fails to reflect important difficulties encountered by both the science and policy domains, including the representation and communication of scientific uncertainty and the management of this uncertainty within the planning system. We highlight aspects of the management of these uncertainties pose pressing problems and make some suggestions as to how they might be resolved.

Citizen, Academic, Expert, or International Worker? Juggling with Identities at UNESCO's Social Science Department, 1946–1955

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-91
Author(s):  
Teresa Tomás Rangil
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Organizational Identification ◽  
International System ◽  
Scientific Models ◽  
Science Department ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Science Department ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Efficiency And Productivity

ArgumentThis paper explores the links between the competing scientific, disciplinary, and institutional identifications of social scientists working for international organizations and the nature of the work produced in these establishments. By examining the case of UNESCO's Social Science Department from 1946 to 1955, the paper shows how the initial lack of organizational identification diminished the efficiency and productivity of the Department and slowed down the creation of an international system for research in the social sciences. It then examines how the elaboration of such identification resulted from a period of trial and error during which several national, academic, and scientific models were explored. The paper concludes that only the discourse of “moral sensitivity” kept the Department together at a time when disillusions regarding internationalism, the destabilization of the meaning of nation, and suspicion towards some Western disciplines rendered unacceptable the universalization of a single international social scientific identification.

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