A Few Misconceptions about Cultural Evolution by O’Brien Michael J.

“…Despite a growing number of social scientists who view the evolution of culture as a Darwinian process, research in the field at large is still rooted in the orthogenetic, progressive models of cultural evolution that were popularized in the nineteenth century and brought back in a new form in the mid-twentieth century. …”
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Optimizing Nitrogen Management in Food and Energy Production and Environmental Protection: Summary Statement from the Second International Nitrogen Conference by Ellis Cowling, James Galloway, Cari Furiness, Mary Barber, Ton Bresser, Ken Cassman, Jan Willem Erisman, Richard Haeuber, Robert Howarth, Jerry Melillo, William Moomaw, Arvin Mosier, Kaj Sanders, Sybil Seitzinger, Stan Smeulders, Robert Socolow, Daniel Walters, Ford West, Zhaoliang Zhu

“…They challenge the creative minds of natural and social scientists, economists, engineers, business leaders, and decision makers. …”
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Les révoltes au pays de la révolution by Kamel Chachoua

“…Much of the Algerian intelligentsia in general and social scientists in particular were critical or, at the very least skeptical about the “Arab revolts” as spring 2011. …”
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Vers une autonomisation du champ des sciences sociales turques by Jean-Baptiste Le Moulec

“…While North-African revolutions offer a new opportunity to experts to promote the «Turkish Model », the Syrian civil war and its consequences on Turkey’s national politics, intensify the field’s ideological polarization and seems to trigger a kind of empowerment of social scientists from the political sphere.…”
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L’angosciosa resistenza: decostruire la categoria dell’“abbandono istituzionale” nel quartiere di edilizia popolare di San Siro (Milano) by Paolo Grassi

“…This category, used in an indiscriminate manner by disparate social actors – including urban planners and social scientists – shows a gap between its frequency and the factual reality when it is associated to all the public interventions implemented in the neighbourhood in the last ten years. …”
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Verkenning van 'n postmoderne epistemologiese konteks vir die praktiese teologie by J Dill, DJ Kotzé

“… What is known as the standard scientific method (logical positivism andempiricism), has led to several epistemological dilemmas for scientists (for natural scientists as well as for social scientists). As the dilemmas are being investigated, however, it becomes clear that a different thought current has invaded the world today, which I would like to call "postmodernism" by lack of a better descriptive term. …”
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Les épidémiologistes, les chercheurs en sciences sociales et l’organisation de la recherche médicale sur le sida en Afrique [1991] by Randall M. Packard, Paul Epstein

“…These parallels provide a framework for examining how western ideas about AIDS in Africa developed, the role of social scientists in the formation of these ideas, and how these initial perceptions shaped the subsequent development of AIDS research, encouraging a premature narrowing of research questions. …”
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Culturaliser les difficultés scolaires ? L’exemple des politiques éducatives en Picardie face aux classes populaires blanches by Ismail Ferhat

“…Interactions between educational systems and the white working class have been a rising issue for anglo-saxon social scientists as well as public actors. This subject is still, by contrast, less studied by French education science scholars. …”
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La Gouvernance démocratique : perspectives systémique et radicale by Mark BEVIR

“…System governance is, then, a top-down discourse based on the alleged expertise of social scientists. Radical democrats concentrate instead upon the self-government of citizens. …”
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Nous sommes tous des nimbystes : plaidoyer pour l’utilisation de la notion d’acceptabilité sociale by Hervé Flanquart

“…This inhabitants’ refusal to see their immediate environment disturbed is generally called NIMBY Syndrome. However, many social scientists refuse this qualification they consider stigmatizing for residents. …”
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Theoretical framework and methods for the analysis of the adoption-diffusion of innovations in agriculture: a bibliometric review by Rafael Mesa Manzano, Javier Esparcia Pérez

“…In recent years, social scientists have studied the diffusion and adoption of agricultural innovations from different approaches, such as innovation diffusion theory, behavioral models, econometric models, social capital and social network analysis, among others. …”
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A HUMAN IN THE URBAN SPACE OF THE GLOBALIZED WORLD by I. O. Merylova, K. V. Sokolova

“…The study in based on the investigations of contemporary researchers in social philosophy and urban science, as well as social scientists of Chicago School. Originality. The originality of the research is to analyze the "human-urban space" system in terms of the influence of local space of the global world on the human identity formation and preservation. …”
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Self-similarity and synthetic biology: a possible fractal anticipation by Robert Meckin

“…The case is made for a possible fractal anticipation which would have the capacity to identify patterns and support innovators, social scientists and researchers to be better prepared for encountering similar developments at different orders of magnitude.…”
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Putting Embedded Ethics and Social Science into practice: the role of peer-to-peer relationships by Svenja Breuer, Sophia Witz, Jon Skerlj, Maximilian Braun, Marieke Bak, Abdeldjallil Naceri, Daniel Tigard, Sami Haddadin, Alena Buyx, Iris Eisenberger, Ruth Müller

“…One such approach is embedded ethics and social science, which embeds the analysis of ethical, social, and legal aspects into the entire innovation process through direct collaboration between ethicists, social scientists, legal scholars, technical researchers, and experts in the field of application. …”
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Dataset of keywords used by European political parties on FacebookRepositorio de Datos del Consorcio Madroño by Francisco Caravaca, Ángel Cuevas, Rubén Cuevas

“…The information included in the dataset may be of value for social scientists that wants to understand the evolution of the topics employed by political parties in Europe based on a widely used political communication tool such as Facebook.…”
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Las guerras civiles: consideraciones teóricas desde las Ciencias Sociales by Eduardo González Calleja

“…Since the Cold War, social scientists started the systematic study of the phenomenon of civil war, but for nearly half a century his analysis was subsumed and partly hidden by the logic of bloc politics. …”
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Invalidating Factorial Survey Experiments Using Invalid Comparisons Is Bad Practice: Learning from Forster and Neugebauer (2024) by Justin T. Pickett

“…I conclude by emphasizing that social scientists are better served by asking why FE and FS findings sometimes differ than by assuming that any difference in findings across the experimental designs invalidates FS.…”
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Science et démocratie dans la gestion de la nature : des ethno-sociologues pris dans la modélisation d'accompagnement by Marie Charles, Frédérique Chlous-Ducharme, Elsa Faugère, Maurice Wintz

“…This paper presents a cross analysis of the experiences of four social scientists involved in a companion modelling approach. …”
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A Critique on the Book Philosophy of Social Sciences by Mohammad Shojaeian, Mohammad Reza Taheri

“…In the sense that he believes that social scientists should try to present a conception of the good that is common among research actors. …”
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L’expérimentation sociotechnique fondée sur les sciences comportementales : Un instrument au service de la production de l’acceptabilité sociale ?  by Benoit Granier

“…Following its mobilisation by practitioners, the notion of social acceptability has been sparking interest and causing embarrassment among social scientists. This article contributes to the recent effort to clarify and question this notion, taking a national programme of socio-technical experimentation dedicated to smart grids in Japan as a case study. …”
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