This article tries to answer this question by reviewing the considerations in the history of applied sociology and its relevance for recent social work research. The ambition of delivering a research that has an impact on social work practice is not unique, neither for the evidence movement nor ...
Anthropology Science Science: Applied Science Behaviour, Development and Evolution Patrick Bateson The role of parents in shaping the characters of their children, the causes of violence and crime, and the roots of personal unhappiness are central to humanity. Like so many fundamental questions about ...
anthropology, etc. Multidisciplinary approaches have been influential in opening up the study of translation to many disciplines and in enabling researchers to explore a wide range of influences on the process of translation. However, one of the main problems with this type of approach has been ...
On the one hand, therefore, the interpretative humanistic tradition of urban sociology and anthropology known as symbolic interactionism was self-consciously inspired by pragmatism. Nurtured for a time at the ‘Chicago school’, this interactionist tradition – with its emphasis on encounter and engageme...
The aesthetics of substitutions (a) and the theme of subversion of the lawbyde-sire(b)produceacritical view and disclose, in short, asuspicious, passablydis-enchanted anthropology.However,weare also permitted (and ourhypothesis isthat Shakespeareactuallyinvites us to do so)to draw from this the...
headache, fatigue and, if untreated, can have serious health consequences for joints, the heart, and the nervous system. The bacterium has always existed – as documented in various chronicles, but the number of infected had remained small. What then changed in the town of Lyme leading up to...
with farmers in the 1980s, which primarily utilized an economic approach (Rahm and Huffman, 1984; Norris and Batie, 1987), while more recent efforts have instead embraced a variety of other social science disciplines, methods, and approaches including sociology, ecology, anthropology, and ...