Scientific Inquiry and the Social Sciences

1983 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 218
Author(s):  
Eli Peace Cox III ◽  
Marilyn B. Brewer ◽  
Barry E. Collins
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Scientific Inquiry ◽  
The Social

Complexity, Science and the Public

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 113-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristian Suteanu
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Scientific Inquiry ◽  
Unexpected Result ◽  
Multiple Relationships ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Measurability Problem ◽  
Rule Out ◽  
The Way

This article addresses complexity by selecting some of its key aspects that share a common feature: the power to change. They seem to change not only the way the world is approached by scientists, but also the way this approach, the resulting perspectives and their multiple relationships, are interpreted. These main aspects are: (1) the challenge of measurability, with an unexpected result that escapes the gravitational field of the measurability problem; (2) the meaning of reproducibility and the redrawn boundaries of scientific inquiry, with implications for the social sciences; (3) the altered expectations concerning prediction, which seem to break with a glorious tradition of unquestioned technological success; and (4) the discovery of all-embracing patterns of events that unavoidably include large events, possibly perceived as ‘crises’, which one may hope to understand and confront, rather than rule out. The resulting geography, with its new landmarks, new relationships among its elements and new means of orientation, is expected to reach the public sooner or later, even if the effect – according to complexity theory itself – cannot be foreseen in detail. All these fibres of change are considered in the context of a fresh meaning of time and of a topology dominated by network concepts.

scholarly journals A New Role for Management of the Social Sciences in an Age of Complexity

2016 ◽  
pp. 51-61
Author(s):  
Jody Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Scientific Inquiry ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
World View ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Inquiry Science ◽  
Organic World ◽  
Scientific World ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

A particular scientific world view has become dominant, influential and successful in modern sciences today. Science and technology have transformed the way we view ourselves, our societies and our place in the cosmos. However, just as science and technology seem to be at the peak of their power, unexpected problems are disrupting the sciences from within. This reflects a deeper and more serious problem regarding scientific inquiry. Science is being held back by old assumptions that have become dogmas, the biggest of which is that science already knows all the answers, and only the details need to be worked out. A transformational paradigm shift is required from a mechanistic world view to an organic world view to better address the challenges of the new millenium.

Scientific Inquiry and the Social Sciences: A Volume in Honor of Donald T. Campbell.

1983 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 205
Author(s):  
Herbert L. Costner ◽  
Marilynn B. Brewer ◽  
Barry E. Collins
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Scientific Inquiry ◽  
The Social

Personal Bests and Gender

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
Julio González-Díaz ◽  
Ignacio Palacios-Huerta ◽  
José M. Abuín
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cognitive Performance ◽  
Scientific Inquiry ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
Extensive Margin ◽  
Intensive Margin ◽  
The Social ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Universe

Abstract We connect two large bodies of scientific inquiry. First, important theories in the social sciences establish that human preferences are reference-dependent. Second, a separate field of research documents substantial differences in preferences and attitudes across genders. Specifically, we examine the universe of official classic chess games (more than 250,000 subjects and 22 million games). This allows us to study differences across genders both in cognitive performance (intensive margin) and in competitive participation (extensive margin), using the fact that personal bests act as reference points. We find that males and females behave very differently around their personal bests in both margins.

Positivism, Functionalism, and International Law

1940 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 260-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans J. Morgenthau
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
International Law ◽  
Scientific Inquiry ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Natural Reaction ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of International Law

If an event in the physical world contradicts all scientific forecasts, and thus challenges the assumptions on which the forecasts have been based, it is the natural reaction of scientific inquiry to reëxamine the foundations of the specific science and attempt to reconcile scientific findings and empirical facts. The social sciences do not react in the same way. They have an inveterate tendency to stick to their assumptions and to suffer constant defeat from experience rather than to change their assumptions inthe light of contradicting facts. This resistance to change is uppermost in the history of international law. All the schemes and devices by which great humanitarians and shrewd politicians endeavored to reorganize the relations between states on the basis of law, have not stood the trial of history.

Scientific Inquiry and the Social Sciences. A Volume in Honor of Donald T. Campbell

1984 ◽  
Vol 97 (2) ◽  
pp. 299
Author(s):  
C. P. D. ◽  
Marilyn B. Brewer ◽  
Barry E. Collins
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Scientific Inquiry ◽  
The Social
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