A decade on from the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry, this article examines the contributions of social scientists to the Inquiry on two key issues: the meaning of institutional racism and the police response to racial violence. These academic inputs are characterised as instrumental and reflexive forms of...
Ethicsare moral beliefs and rules about right and wrong. When you useethicswith this meaning, it is a plural noun. You use a plural form of a verb with it. Such action was a violation of medicalethics. Ethicsis also the study of questions about what is morally right or wrong. Whenethi...
Yet the fact is that the applied social sciences are badly in want of such a methodology. For as a result of this deficiency, the very meaning and character of "applied social science" remain obscure and those concerned with it often reflexively reiterate received formulae.A variety of ...
Since the beginning of the new millennium Flyvbjerg has been trying to transform social science. His manifesto was set out in Making Social Science Matter (Flyvbjerg, 2001). There is a sense of the movement's evangelical spirit in the very title of this follow-up collection 鈥...
Certainly, the broader contributions to social science made by these leading scholars was as impressive, including the work of Stouffer and Williams on relative deprivation; McNemar, Guttman, and Likert on scaling; Lazarsfeld on quantitative methods; and Merton (with Alice Rossi) on reference groups...
Book review: Real Social Science: Applied PhronesisFlyvbjergBentLandmanToddSchramSanford (eds), Real Social Science: Applied Phronesis. Cambridge: Cambridg... Bent Flyvbjerg et al., following Aristotle, call their approach 'phronesis', meaning 'practical wisdom' or 'prudence'. But in the way they...
On meaning : selected writings in semiotic theory An academic directory and search engine. AJ Greimas - Pinter 被引量: 342发表: 1987年 The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings, Volume I (Book) In lieu of an , here is a brief excerpt of the content: CHRONOLOGY 1839 Born in Cam...
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A Paper Presented at the Social Science Research Network Electronic Collection, 14th – 15thJune, LagosNarayan, S. and Narayan, P. K. (2010). Demand Elasticity for Importations in Mauritius and Nigeria: New Findings Using Co-Integration Analysis, Monash University Australia Department of Economics...
geographies of cultural, economic, and political dominance which mark some languages as lesser in status than others. Thus, acts of translation are never simply about meaning and communication; they intersect with a broader politics of translation and are in turn subject to challenge and contestation...