An International Social Science Research Program on Global Change

1988 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 98
Author(s):  
Harold K. Jacobson ◽  
Cheryl Shanks
Keyword(s):  
Global Change ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
International Social

Franciscan Missions and Chiriguano Workers: Colonization, Acculturation and Indian Labor in Southeastern Bolivia

1987 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erick D. Langer
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Franciscan Missions ◽  
American Foundation ◽  
Science Research Council

An earlier version of this essay was presented at the Symposium “Bolivia: Formation and Development of a Labor Force, 1600 to the Present,” organized by Ann Zulawski and Lesley Gill for the 45th International Congress of Americanists, Bogotá, Colombia, 1985. The author wishes to thank Robert H. Jackson, Brooke Larson, and Nils Jacobsen for their comments on the paper. Research funds were provided by the Social Science Research Council, Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Research Program, and the Inter-American Foundation.

Office Hours: How (Critical) Norm Research Can Regain Its Voice

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Engelkamp ◽  
Katharina Glaab ◽  
Judith Renner
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Critical Research ◽  
Research Perspective ◽  
Political Position ◽  
Western Values

AbstractSocial Science research cannot be neutral. It always involves, so the argument of this article, the (re)production of social reality and thus has to be conceived as political practice. From this perspective, the present article looks into constructivist norm research. In the first part, we argue that constructivist norm research is political insofar as it tends to reproduce Western values that strengthen specific hegemonic discursive structures. However, this particular political position is hardly reflected on in norm research. Hence, it is our goal in the second part of the article to outline research strategies potentially useful in reflective and critical norm research. We propose a critical research program based upon three central methodological steps that are inspired by post-structuralism: first, the questioning of global hegemonic values; second, the reconstruction of marginalized knowledge; and third, the explicit reflection of one’s own research perspective.

Sociologists everywhere: Country representation in conferences hosted by the International Sociological Association, 1990–2012

2015 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 466-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Kjerulf Dubrow ◽  
Marta Kołczyńska ◽  
Kazimierz M Slomczynski ◽  
Irina Tomescu-Dubrow
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Science System ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
International Sociological Association ◽  
National Representation ◽  
The World ◽  
International Social

Professional events that feature face-to-face interaction of social scientists from across the world are, next to publications and research, important forms of scientific knowledge production and dissemination. Thus, they are vital to the World Science System (WSS). Like other WSS elements, scholarly involvement in international social science events is characterized by unequal cross-national representation. This article focuses in-depth on the International Sociological Association (ISA), a major international social science professional association, to examine inequality in attendance at its flagship conferences. To what extent do countries differ with respect to the number of scholars attending ISA conferences? What factors drive attendance? The authors base their hypotheses on the economic, political and social dimensions that influence country representation. To test these hypotheses the authors use a dataset containing information on 212 countries and their participation in the eight ISA conferences – World Congresses and Forums – held from 1990 to 2012. Results show that a country’s GDP, level of democracy and social science research infrastructure (SSRI) substantially determine their level of representation. SSRI effects are significant above and beyond the effect of GDP and of other controls. Findings also show a meaningful over-time decrease in representation inequality according to countries’ GDP.

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