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.

The Role of Fundamental Knowledge in Solving Problems of the Subject Area “Technology”(From the Point of View of the Project of the Concept of Teaching)

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-15
Author(s):  
С. Кутепов ◽  
S. Kutepov
Keyword(s):  
Subject Area ◽  
Economic Education ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Technological Education ◽  
Hand Tools ◽  
Professional Self ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Behavior

long-awaited Concept of teaching the subject area “Technology”, the project of which is analyzed in the article,defi nes the problems facing the teacher. The author illustrates these problems and the characterized directions of teaching the subject area “Technology” with the possible fragments of the content of technological education. The author shows which information should be used at the stage of the development of schoolchildren’s basic application skills of the main types of hand tools (electrical including) as a resource for solving technological problems which are the priority results of the mastering the subject area “Technology”. The article suggests the knowledge necessary for ecological education of schoolchildren, formation of their world outlook, provided that the interdisciplinary relations are established. The problems of the environmentally friendly production organically associated with the problems of modern economy allow us to solve the problem of economic education. The article proves that the subject of “Technology” is supposed to create certain patterns of thinking and behavior of schoolchildren, introduce them into the world of professions, and ensure professional self-determination of schoolchildren.

scholarly journals Modeling the subject areas of psychological research on pain

2020 ◽  
pp. 579-595
Author(s):  
Alexey I. Chuloshnikov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Graphical Model ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Objective Basis ◽  
The Individual

The article is devoted to the description and justification of the author’s model representing possible demarcation of subject areas in psychological and non-psychological studies of the phenomenon of pain. In the first part of the paper, the deficiencies of existing approaches to the study and explanation of pain are analyzed, and the need for rethinking the existing biopsychosocial approach is indicated, which can be done based on the understanding of pain as a phenomenon of mental reflection. As prerequisites for solving and concretizing these problems, we briefly analyze the historically established non-psychological areas of the pain study (physiological, algometric, and humanities-based), within which we identify the main issues and statements about the nature of pain (particularly as a phenomenon of the subjective world). These issues are considered in a more specific form on the basis of methodological difficulties in psychological research on pain. The main questions are formulated, including the following: the relation of the objective basis of pain to the subjective experience; determination of the subject area of psychological research into pain; determination of the categorical status of pain and its relation to other phenomena of the psyche, to the categories of «subject», «personality». In the second part of the article, based on the indicated theoretical and empirical assumptions, a graphical model illustrating potential subject areas of psychological and non-psychological research is derived. The model reflects the place of various pain phenomena within a single selection process, and the exclusion of the information necessary to reflect and regulate the interaction of an organism and a destructive agent at the physiological, mental (direct behavioral regulation), and sociopsychological levels (socially-mediated regulation). In accordance with the levels of ‘pain’ regulation and reflection, we formulate the following: hypothetical scope of the pain concept (the narrow and broad definition); subject areas and their specifics; possible determinants that represent their phenomenology; possible hierarchical relationships of pain reflection levels. The paper also provides an outline of a hypothetical mechanism that connects the process of selecting pain experiences (the content of the subjective picture of pain) to the individual personality characteristics of the subject experiencing pain.

scholarly journals Determination of the baseline value of the target of the national project «Science» related to the publication activity of the Russian Federation in priority areas

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. I. Starodubov ◽  
F. A. Kurakov
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Priority Areas ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
Scientific And Technological Development

One of the seven target indicators of the National Science Project (NSP) is “The place of the Russian Federation by share in the total number of articles in the areas defined by the priorities of scientific and technological development in publications indexed in international databases”. The purpose of this study was to assess the basic value of this indicator for disciplines related to priority areas, according to the Strategy of scientific and technological development of the Russian Federation. The volumes of publication flows of the Russian Federation in 112 disciplines are compared with a similar indicator of countries ranked fifth in the number of publications in the subject area under consideration, indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (WoS CC). A 5–10 fold lag of the Russian Federation was recorded for the most part of the priority areas identified by the passport of the NSP.

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.

scholarly journals Sustainable Development and Industry 4.0: A Bibliometric Analysis Identifying Key Scientific Problems of the Sustainable Industry 4.0

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 4254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bożena Gajdzik ◽  
Sandra Grabowska ◽  
Sebastian Saniuk ◽  
Tadeusz Wieczorek
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Science Field ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Subject

The main aim of the manuscript is the identification of key research problems in the field of sustainable development, in the era of implementing the Industry 4.0 concept. The manuscript presents results of the bibliometric analysis in the subject: “Sustainable Industry 4.0”. The bibliometric analysis was realized in three segments: Sustainability, Industry 4.0 and Sustainable Industry 4.0. In the analysis, the following databases were used: Web of Science (WoS), Scopus, Google Scholar. The main purpose of the analysis was to outline the dynamics of publications in the categories: citation, author, country, type document, science field, research area. The review of sources carried out in this way allowed us to identify key research areas and confirm the research thesis adopted in the manuscript. The research thesis: Sustainable Industry 4.0 allows the integration of the Industry 4.0 concept with sustainable development goals. The article is dedicated especially to scientists looking for still unsolved research problems in the implementation of sustainable Industry 4.0. Furthermore, the manuscript could be an inspiration for scientists, stakeholders, practitioners and governments to complete today’s knowledge about the problems of sustainability in Industry 4.0.

scholarly journals Living Teologi Tradisi Tolak Bala Bepapas pada Masyarakat Desa Parit Setia Kecamatan Jawai Kabupaten Sambas Kalimantan Barat

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 260-285
Author(s):  
Revi Madriani
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Islamic Theology ◽  
Traditional Leader ◽  
Differences Of Opinion ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Research Show

This study examines Islam that lives in the Parit Setia community. In the Parit Setia community there is a tradition tolak bala Bepapas. The purpose of this research is to answer the problems that are the subject of discussion: 1) Definition of the tradition tolak bala Bepapas; 2) Understanding the community's theology of the tradition tolak bala Bepapas; and 3) The values contained in the tradition tolak bala Bepapas. This research is a field research, with a phenomenological approach, qualitative methods, and living theology as a knife of analysis. The findings in this research show that: First, historically the tradition tolak bala Bepapas is a tradition that resulted from a mixture of culture and religion. Tradition is carried out as an effort to avoid all forms of danger, which is symbolized through leaves and is led by a traditional leader (pak Labbai). Second, this tradition has long been rooted so that it is considered sacred. Even though there are differences of opinion in responding to it, this tradition still exists today as a cultural identity of society. Third, the determination of religious values contained in this tradition is based on the principles of tawhid, which substantially have values for relating to nature, maintaining friendship, asking for salvation and as a form of gratitude to Allah SWT. Observing all the findings in the field, it is not an exaggeration to conclude that this tradition is a living Islam (living Islamic theology) in the Parit Setia community.

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.

What Is a Case Study and What Is It Good for?

2004 ◽  
Vol 98 (2) ◽  
pp. 341-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN GERRING
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Single Unit ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Intensive Study ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Study Research ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
The Subject

This paper aims to clarify the meaning, and explain the utility, of the case study method, a method often practiced but little understood. A “case study,” I argue, is best defined as an intensive study of a single unit with an aim to generalize across a larger set of units. Case studies rely on the same sort of covariational evidence utilized in non-case study research. Thus, the case study method is correctly understood as a particular way of defining cases, not a way of analyzing cases or a way of modeling causal relations. I show that this understanding of the subject illuminates some of the persistent ambiguities of case study work, ambiguities that are, to some extent, intrinsic to the enterprise. The travails of the case study within the discipline of political science are also rooted in an insufficient appreciation of the methodologicaltradeoffsthat this method calls forth. This paper presents the familiar contrast between case study and non-case study work as a series of characteristic strengths and weaknesses—affinities—rather than as antagonistic approaches to the empirical world. In the end, the perceived hostility between case study and non-case study research is largely unjustified and, perhaps, deserves to be regarded as a misconception. Indeed, the strongest conclusion to arise from this methodological examination concerns the complementarity of single-unit and cross-unit research designs.

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.

scholarly journals Intellectual analysis of spectral images of plants

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 00142
Author(s):  
Eugeny V. Lutsenko ◽  
Valery E. Korzhakov ◽  
Valery I. Loiko
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent System ◽  
Real Data ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Leaf Damage ◽  
Automated System ◽  
Intellectual System ◽  
Reliable Model ◽  
Original Presentation ◽  
The Subject

Traditionally, the assessment of plants for different diseases is carried out by visual determination of leaf damage with the help of an expert – phytopathologist. This method has a number of disadvantages that are proposed to be overcome with the use of the automated system-cognitive analysis (ASC-analysis) of the spectra of images plants in the intelligent system called “Eidos”. For this purpose, we solve the following tasks: Task 1: formulating the idea and concept of the solution of the problem; Task 2: justifying the choice of the method and the tool to solve problems; Task 3: applying the selected method and the tool to solve the problems, i.e. to perform the following steps: – cognitive structuring of the subject area; – formalization of the subject area; – synthesis and verification of models; – improving the quality of the model and the choice of the most reliable models – solution in the most reliable model of diagnostic tasks (classification, recognition, identification), decision support and research of the modeled subject area by studying its model. Task 4: describing the effectiveness of the proposed solution. Task 5: examining the limitations and disadvantages of the proposed solutions for the problems and prospects of its development by overcoming those limitations and drawbacks. We also provide a detailed numerical example intellectual analysis of spectral images of plants with real data by applying the ASC-analysis and “Eidos” intellectual system. However, students and scientists still do not notice that open, scalable, interactive, intelligent online environment for learning and researches already exists and operates, based on automated systemcognitive analysis (ASC-analysis) and its programmatic Toolkit – intellectual “Eidos” and the author’s website. This article is an original presentation and it is designed to familiarize potential users with the capabilities of this environment.

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