Disasters, their interaction with science, technology and society by Víctor René Navarro Machado

“…The diverse methodological and theoretical approaches flourished from social sciences to carry out disasters analysis, have pointed out the necessity of taking into consideration historical conditions that have generated them and that, at the same time, have elevated the vulnerability of affected societies. …”
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Anthropocene, History and Politics. Challenges and Critical Itineraries by Furio Ferraresi

“…The essay addresses some questions that the concept of the Anthropocene poses not only to political theory but also to the humanities and social sciences. Along a critical itinerary among different theories and authors (from Chakrabarty to Latour, from Moore and Malm to ecofeminism), the essay discusses the concept of the Anthropocene with a ‘political ecology’ approach. …”
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Treuhand Transdisciplinary: Deformation, Disruption, Dynamics, Devaluation by Marcus Böick

“…These patterns could help to build heuristic bridges between different disciplines (like social sciences, economics, or history) in this re-emerging scientific area and to embed this research in broader themes on a European or even global scale.…”
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KAB Newsletter Issue 02 (April-June 2022) by Sempungu, Joseph Godfrey, Nowamani, Collins

“…IN THIS ISSUE; The KAB Chancellor presides over the 6th graduation The Vice Chancellor’s Tribute to Frank Kalimuzo KAB joins the Association of African Universities KAB hosts the Kiswahili international Conference - CHAKAMA Medical and Dental Practitioners Council Inspect KABSOM Patriotism Corps launched at KAB Kabale University Academic Staff Association (KABASA) elects new leaders Farmer Field schools changing the livelihoods of families in Kigezi Faculty of Social Sciences to launch Anti-Corruption Center Equal Opportunities Commission trains KAB Staff UNDP team visits Kabale University KAB hosts Italian Visitors…”
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Contemporary digital sociology in search of meaning-making models: the proper and the actual. Review on articles from the research handbook of digital sociology edited by J. Skopek... by E. V. Andrianova, V. A. Davydenko, A. I. Rozmanov

“…The first part of this review presents the key ideas of 15 chapters, focusing on the foundational components of social  theory and their connections to the internet in daily life, digital  technologies for surveys and data processing, the significance  of mobile devices, big data, machine learning, agent-based  models of social phenomena, inclusive digital focus groups, social networking sites in professional contexts, online dating, partner selection based on digital information, the use of digital approaches in online markets, the application of YouTube in social sciences, and automated image analysis. A distinctive feature of the review is its exploration of the intersection between the digital and social spheres, framed as a contradiction between the proper (computer sciences) and the actual (social sciences), reflecting the search for meaning in communication and action within digital and social spaces.…”
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Retóricas em disputa: o debate intelectual sobre as políticas de ação afirmativa para estudantes negros no Brasil by Karine Pereira Goss

“…It has at least two well demarcated positions in social sciences regarding the subject: intellectuals contrary to the affirmative action politics and those favorable of. …”
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Les langues de la diffusion scientifique : une question pour les géographes et les géographies by Nathalie Lemarchand, Antoine Le Blanc

“…More importantly, is there something lost in the production of scientific work in the social sciences within a single global language? Those questions go far beyond the simple question of the decline of French as an international language; it raises crucial interrogations such as the normalizing process of "scientific English" in the social sciences, the input of diversity in the global science, the disqualification of "local" case studies, etc. …”
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L’ethnobotanique au carrefour du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle et du Musée ethnologique de Salagon (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) by Carole Brousse

“…At the crossroads of the natural sciences and social sciences, ethnobotany do its training at the Ethnopôle de Salagon.…”
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Self-Discipline Makes Policy Advice Better by Gert G. Wagner

“…And both strands of the discussion are barely connected to the figure of the „public intellectual“ who has played an important role in the humanities and social sciences for decades. This is a role that, as discussed in this article, is now played digitally by many scholars with low barriers to entry. …”
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La mission insertion professionnelle des doctorants en SHS : tensions et enjeux autour des valeurs professionnelles dans les discours des enseignants-chercheurs by Stéphanie Fischer

“…This research is based on interviews with researchers about their supervisory design and their involvement in the training of doctoral candidates in the humanities and social sciences in doctoral schools. The discourse on practices and models of supervision articulate, on the one hand, the conceptions and disciplinary values of the research and, on the other hand, types of references to academic out-of-scope logics centered in particular on an "external" utility of the diploma and more integrative logics of doctoral students (research, laboratories, etc.).…”
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L’interdisciplinarité en pratique dans les sciences de l’environnement : des enjeux épistémologiques aux défis de la publication scientifique by Gabrielle Bouleau, Rémy Petitimbert, Thibault Boughedada

“…The interview thus offers a panoramic view of the expectations – in particular the capacity to address emerging issues – with regards to DD&T, which 20 years after its creation, is now well established in the field of French-speaking journals on environmental social sciences applied to territory.…”
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Evaluation of the Engineering Curriculum Elements for Compliance by A. I. Chuchalin

“…As an example, the author presents the results of the evaluation of engineering undergraduate program courses for compliance with the recommendations of the CDIO Standards in the form of total and differentiated ratings of the modules of the humanities and social sciences, natural sciences and mathematics, basic engineering and specialized professional courses. …”
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Studying University-Industry Collaboration in Latin America: A Systematic Review of the period 1993-2022 by Malena Méndez-Isla, Mariana Versino, Sebastián Varela

“…Findings reveal a focus on management, economics, business, social sciences, and engineering disciplines. Qualitative methods dominate, while theoretical-conceptual approaches encompass meso-institutional and micro-interactional levels. …”
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Réseaux de chercheurs en Méditerranée. Contraintes institutionnelles et autonomie scientifique by François Siino

“…One of the largest of these networks, the Ramses Network of Excellence in human and social sciences was created in 2006 with European funding support. …”
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Journey through the writing process: Metaphors of thesis writing experience by Hanić Jasmina, Pavlović Tanja, Jašić Alma Jahić

“…Semistructured interviews on the topic of master’s thesis writing with three students coming from humanities, social sciences and natural sciences served as a corpus from which the data were extracted. …”
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The Construction of the Migration’s Field of Study in Chile: Notes of a Reflexive and Self-Critical Exercise by Carolina Stefoni, Fernanda Stang

“…In the results of this work, a reflection on the way in which the category of migration is constructed from the field of social sciences in the country and a possible thematic agenda is presented for future research.…”
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Competition between poly-, pluri- and multi- in official French neologisms by Jan Holeš

“…With regard to the distribution of terms according to the domains, the natural and technical sciences dominate over the social sciences. The comparison with the English equivalents reveals a fairly high correspondence rate, even if 23% of the terms are not constructed in the same way. …”
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Embracing quiet ego for flourishing: mediating role of authenticity and voluntary simplicity by Rabindra Kumar Pradhan, Peeyush Anand, Kailash Jandu, Shilpa Sabu, Adnaan Ahmad

“…The data were analyzed through Statistical Package for Social Sciences 26.0 and Analysis of Moment Structures Software Tools. …”
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Gendered impact of COVID-19 containment measures on unpaid care work and mental health in Europe: a scoping review protocol by Kathleen Pöge, Hande Gencer, Regina Brunnett, Maria A Marchwacka, Petra Rattay, Tobias Staiger, Hürrem Tezcan-Güntekin

“…We will search the databases Medline, PsycINFO, Scopus, CINAHL, Social Sciences Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts as well as Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA) and hand-search reference lists of selected articles to identify relevant peer-reviewed studies. …”
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The Information of Public Sciences: Definitions by Žiedonė Zaveckienė

“…The information of public sciences is very closely connected with information in general and especially with the information of social sciences, journalism, and bibliography. There is no consensus in defining social phenomena in general, which interferes with fixing the place of the information of public sciences. …”
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