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    Eroticism and the loss of imagination in the modern condition.Social Sciences Prashant Mishra Humanities, Gandhinagar Indian Institute of Technology, Holds A. Master’S. Degree in English Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Latin American Literature Eroticism, Poetry Modern Fiction & Phenomenology Mysticism - forthcoming - Journal for Cultural Research:1-16.
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    The Double-Edged Helix: Social Implications of Genetics in a Diverse Society.Joseph S. Alper, Catherine Ard, Adrienne Asch, Peter Conrad, Jon Beckwith, American Cancer Society Research Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Jon Beckwith, Harry Coplan Professor of Social Sciences Peter Conrad & Lisa N. Geller - 2002
    The rapidly changing field of genetics affects society through advances in health-care and through implications of genetic research. This study addresses the impacts of new genetic discoveries and technologies on different segments of today's society. The book begins with a chapter on genetic complexity, and subsequent chapters discuss moral and ethical questions arising from today's genetics from the perspectives of health care professionals, the media, the general public, special interest groups and commercial interests.
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    The Essential Fit Between Qualitative Methodology and Emirati Population: Towards Meaningful Social Science Research in UAE.Shaima Ahammed - 2015 - Social Epistemology 29 (3):344-358.
    One of the most fundamental problems plaguing the state of social science research in the United Arab Emirates is the lack of methodologies that appropriately respond to the cultural context of the country. Most social science research published from the region has merely transplanted Western quantitative methods and has proved ineffective as very few social problems in UAE have been appropriately responded to by social science research. This paper suggests the use of qualitative (...)
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    Teaching the Ethics of Science and Engineering through Humanities and Social Science.Skylar Zilliox, Jessica Smith & Carl Mitcham - 2016 - Teaching Ethics 16 (2):161-183.
    Ethical questions posed by emerging technologies call for greater understanding of their societal, economic, and environmental aspects by policymakers, citizens, and the engineers and applied scientists at the heart of their development and application. This article reports on the efforts of one research project that assessed the growth of critical thinking and awareness of these multiple aspects in undergraduate engineering and applied science students, with specific regard to nanotechnology. Students in two required courses, a first-year writing and engineering ethics (...)
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  5. Doing Social Science as a Feminist: The Engendering of Archaeology.Alison Wylie - 2001 - In Angela N. H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck & Londa Schiebinger (eds.), Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology, and Medicine. University of Chicago Press. pp. 23-45.
     
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  6. (1 other version)The Idea of a Social Science: And its Relation to Philosophy.Peter Winch - 1958 - New York: Routledge.
    First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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    Polity and society: philosophical underpinnings of social science paradigms.Michael Haas - 1992 - New York: Praeger.
    Haas deconstructs competing paradigms in political science and sociology in order to demonstrate metaphysical, methodological, and normative assumptions that ...
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    Resisting the drive to theorise : a phenomenological perspective on social science research.Emma Williams - 2018 - Magis, Revista Internacional de Investigación En Educación 11 (22):43-56.
    This article explores predominant uses of theory in social science research in relation to the approach of phenomenological philosophy. While phenomenology is sometimes interpreted as one theoretical or methodological paradigm amongst others in the field of qualitative research, this article explores key thinkers within the philosophical tradition of phenomenology to argue that this tradition can raise challenges for predominant conceptions of research and theorizing in the social sciences and certain philosophical idea(l)s that can be connected to them. (...)
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  9. A pragmatist defense of non-relativistic explanatory pluralism in history and social science.Jeroen van Bouwel & Erik Weber - 2008 - History and Theory 47 (2):168–182.
    Explanatory pluralism has been defended by several philosophers of history and social science, recently, for example, by Tor Egil Førland in this journal. In this article, we provide a better argument for explanatory pluralism, based on the pragmatist idea of epistemic interests. Second, we show that there are three quite different senses in which one can be an explanatory pluralist: one can be a pluralist about questions, a pluralist about answers to questions, and a pluralist about both. We (...)
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    Critical bioethics: Beyond the social science critique of applied ethics.Adam M. Hedgecoe - 2004 - Bioethics 18 (2):120–143.
    ABSTRACT This article attempts to show a way in which social science research can contribute in a meaningful and equitable way to philosophical bioethics. It builds on the social science critique of bioethics present in the work of authors such as Renée Fox, Barry Hoffmaster and Charles Bosk, proposing the characteristics of a critical bioethics that would take social science seriously. The social science critique claims that traditional philosophical bioethics gives a dominant (...)
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    Dimensions of Pain: Humanities and Social Science Perspectives.Lisa Folkmarson Käll (ed.) - 2012 - Routledge.
    Pain research is still dominated by biomedical perspectives and the need to articulate pain in ways other than those offered by evidence based medical models is pressing. Examining closely subjective experiences of pain, this book explores the way in which pain is situated, communicated and formed in a larger cultural and social context. Dimensions of Pain explores the lived experience of pain, and questions of identity and pain, from a range of different disciplinary perspectives within the humanities and (...) sciences. Discussing the acuity and temporality of pain, its isolating impact, the embodied expression of pain, pain and sexuality, gender and ethnicity, it also includes a cluster of three chapters discusses the phenomenon and experience of labour pains. This volume revitalizes the study of pain, offering productive ways of carefully thinking through its different aspects and exploring the positive and enriching side of world-forming pain as well as its limiting aspects. It will be of interest to academics and students interested in pain from a range of backgrounds, including philosophy, sociology, nursing, midwifery, medicine and gender studies. (shrink)
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  12. Drawing in a Social Science: Lithic Illustration.Dominic McIver Lopes - 2009 - Perspectives on Science 17 (1):pp. 5-25.
    Scientific images represent types or particulars. According to a standard history and epistemology of scientific images, drawings are fit to represent types and machine-made images are fit to represent particulars. The fact that archaeologists use drawings of particulars challenges this standard history and epistemology. It also suggests an account of the epistemic quality of archaeological drawings. This account stresses how images integrate non-conceptual and interepretive content.
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    Wittgenstein and political philosophy: a reexamination of the foundations of social science.John W. Danford - 1978 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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    11. Interpretive Social Science vs. Hermeneuticism.Jürgen Habermas - 1983 - In Norma Haan, Robert N. Bellah, Paul Rabinow & William M. Sullivan (eds.), Social Science as Moral Inquiry. Columbia University Press. pp. 251-270.
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  15. Affect and Emotion: A New Social Science Understanding.[author unknown] - 2012
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    ‘“ Narrative!I can’t hear that anymore’. A linguistic critique of an overstretched umbrella term in cultural and social science studies, discussed with the example of the discourse on climate change.Martin Reisigl - 2021 - Critical Discourse Studies 18 (3):368-386.
    In cultural as well as social science studies of discourses (e.g. of discourses on climate change), the concept of narrative is used in a very broad sense – as an umbrella term that lacks analytical accuracy. From the perspective of linguistics, it seems obvious to acknowledge five elementary generic patterns. In addition to narration, linguists differentiate between argumentation, description, explication and instruction. Each of these patterns fulfils a different basic pragmatic function. This article tries to make clear and (...)
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    Social Science Research and the Government: Comparative Essays on Britain and the United States. Martin Bulmer.Henrika Kuklick - 1988 - Isis 79 (3):498-499.
  18. Method, Social Science, and Social Hope.Richard Rorty - 1981 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 11 (4):569 - 588.
    Galileo and his fellowers discovered, and subsequent centuries have amply confirmed, that you get much better predictions by thinking of things as masses of particles blindly bumping each other than by thinking of them as Aristotle thought of them — animistically, teleologically, anthromorphically. They also discovered that you get a better handle on the universe by thinking of it as infinite and cold and comfortless than by thinking of it as finite, homey, planned, and relevant to human concerns. Finally, they (...)
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    Agent‐based computational models and generative social science.Joshua M. Epstein - 1999 - Complexity 4 (5):41-60.
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    Reporting ethical approval in health and social science articles: an audit of adherence to GDPR and national legislation.Kerstin Hulter Åsberg & Kjell Asplund - 2021 - BMC Medical Ethics 22 (1):1-8.
    BackgroundPrevious studies have indicated that failure to report ethical approval is common in health science articles. In social sciences, the occurrence is unknown. The Swedish Ethics Review Act requests that sensitive personal data, in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), should undergo independent ethical review, irrespective of academic discipline. We have explored the adherence to this regulation. MethodsUsing the Web of Science databases, we reviewed 600 consecutive articles from three domains (health sciences with and (...)
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    Scientific metaphysics and social science.Don Ross - 2023 - Synthese 202 (5):1-34.
    Recently, philosophers have developed an extensive literature on social ontology that applies methods and concepts from analytic metaphysics. Much of this is entirely abstracted from, and unconcerned with, social science. However, Epstein (2015) argues explicitly that analytic social metaphysics, provided its account of ontological ‘grounding’ is repaired in specific ways, can rescue social science from explanatory impasses into which he thinks it has fallen. This version of analytic social ontology thus directly competes with (...)
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    The Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy.Leon J. Goldstein - 1960 - Philosophical Review 69 (3):411.
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  23. New Philosophy of Social Science.James Bohman - 1997 - Human Studies 20 (4):429-440.
    This article defends methodological and theoretical pluralism in the social sciences. While pluralistic, such a philosophy of social science is both pragmatic and normative. Only by facing the problems of such pluralism, including how to resolve the potential conflicts between various methods and theories, is it possible to discover appropriate criteria of adequacy for social scientific explanations and interpretations. So conceived, the social sciences do not give us fixed and universal features of the social (...)
     
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  24. Political theory, social science, and real politics.Adam Swift & Stuart White - 2008 - In David Leopold & Marc Stears (eds.), Political theory: methods and approaches. New York: Oxford University Press.
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    New Directions in the Philosophy of Social Science: The Heterogeneous Social.Daniel Little - 2016 - New York: Rowman & Littlefield International.
    An accessible introduction to the latest developments and debates in the philosophy of social science.
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    Business Ethics: A Synthesis of Normative Philosophy and Empirical Social Science.Carroll Underwood Stephens - 1994 - Business Ethics Quarterly 4 (2):145-155.
    Abstract:A synthesis of the two theoretical bases of business ethics—normative philosophy and descriptive social science—is called for. Examples from the literature are used to demonstrate that to ignore the descriptive aspects of moral behavior is to risk unreal philosophy, and that to ignore the normative aspects is to risk amoral social science. Business ethics is portrayed as a single unified field, in which fact-value distinctions are inappropriate.
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    The very idea of a social science.A. R. Louch - 1963 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 6 (1-4):273 – 286.
    In The Idea of a Social Science Winch, argues that, sociology is more properly conceived as a branch of philosophy than of empirical science. Winch falls victim here to the Humean assimilation of the empirical to the generalizable. He notes that much of our talk about social practice is in terms of conventions, so that explanations of social action can be given without recourse to statistical or experimental findings. But such talk depends nonetheless on the (...)
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    Response to Schrag: What are ethics committees for anyway? A defence of social science research ethics review.Sean Jennings - 2012 - Research Ethics 8 (2):87-96.
    Zachary Schrag would like to put the burden of proof for continuation of research ethics review in the Social Sciences on those who advocate for research ethics committees (RECs), and asks that we take the concerns that he raises seriously. I separate his concerns into a principled issue and a number of pragmatic issues. The principled issue concerns the justification for having research ethics committees; the pragmatic issues concern questions such as the effectiveness of review and the expertise of (...)
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    Between urgency and data quality: assessing the FAIRness of data in social science research on the COVID-19 pandemic.Veronika Batzdorfer, Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen, Laura Young, Alexia Katsanidou, Johannes Breuer & Libby Bishop - 2024 - Research Ethics 20 (4):744-763.
    Balancing speed and quality during crises pose challenges for ensuring the value and utility of data in social science research. The COVID-19 pandemic in particular underscores the need for high-quality data and rapid dissemination. Given the importance of behavioural measures and compliance with measures to contain the pandemic, social science research has played a key role in policymaking during this global crisis. This study addresses two key research questions: How FAIR ( findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) (...)
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    New philosophies of social science: realism, hermeneutics, and critical theory.William Outhwaite - 1987 - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Education.
    This book argues that a realist analysis of the structures and processes which make up the social world can provide a way out of its present impasse.
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    Introduction. Ghosts and the Machine: Issues of Agency, Rationality, and Scientific Methodology in Contemporary Philosophy of Social Science.Stephen P. Turner & Paul A. Roth - 2003 - In Stephen P. Turner & Paul Andrew Roth (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 1–17.
    This chapter contains sections titled: The Origins of the Philosophy of Social Science Winch's Triad The Legitimation of “Continental” Philosophy Enter Davidson Rational Choice: The Scientization of the Intentional Philosophy of Social Science Today Notes.
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    Is the case for social science laws strengthening?Clive Beed & Cara Beed - 2000 - Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 30 (2):131–153.
  33. New Philosophy of Social Science: Problems of Indeterminacy.James Bohman - 1999 - Human Studies 22 (1):117-123.
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    The introduction of research ethics review procedures at a university in South Africa: review outcomes of a social science research ethics committee.Simeon E. H. Davies - 2020 - Research Ethics 16 (1-2):1-26.
    The research ethics committee is a key element of university administration and has gained increasing importance as a review mechanism for those institutions that wish to conduct responsible...
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    Authority as a Subject of Social Science and Philosophy.David Braybrooke - 1960 - Review of Metaphysics 13 (3):469 - 485.
    Authority does, of course, raise practical questions, and sometimes these have been so provocative as to amount to social crises. People in the awakening colonial countries have had to cope with a painful transition between old foreign authorities and new indigenous ones. In the metropolitan centers of colonial authority, especially in France, there has been profound agitation about received political forms, though fortunately this has not yet resulted in the catastrophic disintegration of civil authority which Italy and Germany experienced (...)
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    Challenging the utility of polygenic scores for social science: Environmental confounding, downward causation, and unknown biology.Callie H. Burt - 2023 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 46:e207.
    The sociogenomics revolution is upon us, we are told. Whether revolutionary or not, sociogenomics is poised to flourish given the ease of incorporating polygenic scores (or PGSs) as “genetic propensities” for complex traits into social science research. Pointing to evidence of ubiquitous heritability and the accessibility of genetic data, scholars have argued that social scientists not only have an opportunity but a duty to add PGSs to social science research. Social science research that (...)
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  37. Theorizing in sociology and social science: turning to the context of discovery.Richard Swedberg - 2012 - Theory and Society 41 (1):1-40.
  38. Realism and social science.William Outhwaite - 1998 - In Margaret Scotford Archer (ed.), Critical realism: essential readings. New York: Routledge. pp. 282--96.
     
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  39. Partial explanations in social science’.Robert Northcott - 2012 - In Harold Kincaid (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Social Science. Oxford University Press. pp. 130-153.
    Comparing different causes’ importance, and apportioning responsibility between them, requires making good sense of the notion of partial explanation, that is, of degree of explanation. How much is this subjective, how much objective? If the causes in question are probabilistic, how much is the outcome due to them and how much to simple chance? I formulate the notion of degree of causation, or effect size, relating it to influential recent work in the literature on causation. I examine to what extent (...)
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    Individualism in Social Science: Forms and Limits of a Methodology.Rajeev Bhargava - 1992 - Oxford University Press UK.
    The literature on methodological individualism is characterized by a widely held view that if the doctrine were stated with sufficient care it would be seen to be trivially true. Professor Bhargava questions this view. He begins by carefully disentangling the various formulations of the doctrine, identifies its most plausible version, and finally locates the principal assumption underlying it, namely that beliefs are attitudes individuated entirely in terms of what lies within the individual mind. Bhargava argues that once this individualist assumption (...)
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    Individualism in Social Science: Forms and Limits of a Methodology.Eerik Lagerspetz & Rajeev Bhargava - 1994 - Philosophical Quarterly 44 (174):124.
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    Natural science, social science and optimality.Oleg Larichev - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):224-225.
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    Sztompka's philosophy of social science.Maurice A. Finocchiaro - 1980 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 23 (3):357 – 371.
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    The Idea of Philosophy and Its Relation to Social Science.James Bohman - 2014 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 44 (2):151-178.
    This article takes up Winch’s exploration of a certain dialectic in philosophical accounts of social inquiry, the poles of which I refer to as the under-laborer and over-laborer conceptions of philosophy. I argue that these conceptions, shown in Risjord and Reed, respectively, are caught in a dialectic of treating philosophy’s roles as either modestly clarifying or broadly determining the claims of social science. A third conception of philosophy, the therapeutic conception, is exemplified by Read et al.’s “New (...)
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    Finding Philosophy in Social Science.Mario Bunge & Professor Mario Bunge - 1996 - Yale University Press.
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    The illusion of progress in nursing.Elizabeth A. Herdman R. N. Ba Social Science PhD - 2001 - Nursing Philosophy 2 (1):4–13.
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  47. Reason as dialectic: science, social science and socialist science.Roy Edgley - 1976 - Radical Philosophy 15:2-7.
     
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    Practical rationality in social science explanation: A reply to Terrence Kelly.Lansana Keita - 2006 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 36 (2):219-226.
    Terrence Kelly argues for a theory of practical rationality to explain and handle the issue of residential segregation in the United States. Kelly claims that theories of "racism as irrational" and rational choice are not explanatorily adequate in this regard. I argue that the theory of practical rationality is also not adequate because by allowing agents to offer accounts of their calculated behaviour, it allows little appraisal of the behaviour itself. I argue instead that better explanations could be offered by (...)
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    (1 other version)‘Grey areas’: ethical challenges posed by social media-enabled recruitment and online data collection in cross-border, social science research.Sara Bamdad, Devin A. Finaughty & Sarah E. Johns - 2021 - Sage Publications Ltd: Research Ethics 18 (1):24-38.
    Research Ethics, Volume 18, Issue 1, Page 24-38, January 2022. Are social science, cross-border research projects, where recruitment and data collection are carried out remotely, required to follow similar ethical and data-sharing procedures as ‘on-the-ground’ studies that use traditional means of recruitment and participant engagement? This article reflects on our experience of dealing with this question when we had to switch to online data collection due to the restrictions posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, such as the inability to (...)
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    An Invitation to Law and Social Science: Desert, Disputes, and Distribution.Richard O. Lempert & Joseph Sanders - 1986 - Longman Publishing Group.
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