Science as Effective Social Communication by J. C. Kotze

Subjects: “…Social scientists…”
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Outras vozes da política: memória e imaginação by José Luiz Bica de Mélo

“…Taking the relational analysis of the poem “El sur también existe” by Mario Benedetti as a reference and inviting the reader to read poems by Octavio Paz, Martha Nélida Ruiz, Gregory Bateson and Etienne Samain, it also suggests that the social scientist should take into consideration the relations between fiction and socio-historical reality and memory as connections that aim at the web of life which we conventionally call society.…”
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Finding a Mentor and Being a Mentor by László Bruszt

“…Becoming a professional social scientist, getting inside, finding your way in a complex field, and improving your position requires lots of diverse skills and helpful ties that one cannot get at most universities. …”
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Le périple d’Edward Snowden by Timothée Giraud, Marta Severo

“…Facing the deluge of data available on the Internet, one of the most exciting research directions for the social scientist concerns the identification and analysis of social phenomena through this new data. …”
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Reflexivity, description and the analysis of social settings by Rodney Watson

“…This concept has been wrenched by professional social scientist from its mundane moorings and has been 'elevated' into an analytic technique of self interrogation. …”
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Our First Ten Years of Leading With Love: Transforming Cultures Through Interdisciplinary Discourse by Riane Eisler

“…She connects the personal and the political, sharing her 45-year partnership with the late social scientist David Loye, appeals to us to do everything we can to accelerate the shift from domination to partnership worldwide, and shows the important role IJPS has in this needed social and cultural transformation. …”
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Strengthening identification and characterization of causes of perinatal deaths in Kaski district of Nepal (Perinatal MITS Nepal) by Nuwadatta Subedi, Sunita Ranabhat, Sanjib Mani Regmi, Mukesh Mallik, Dela Singh, Shree Krishna Shrestha, Bandana Gurung, Arjun Bhattarai, Madan Prasad Baral, Sudhir Raman Parajuli, Ramchandra Bastola, Junu Shrestha, Sahisnuta Basnet, Eva Gauchan, Sabita Paudel

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Metaphors and social science by Eric D. Macpherson

“…All such attempts have failed, primarily because social scientists have commonly not distinguished between applications and possibly useful metaphors.…”
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HSRC Investigation into Intergroup Relations by H.C. Marais, L. Dreyer

“…Communication scientists in particular and social scientists in general are invited to participate in the HSRC Investigation into Intergroup Rela- tions. …”
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Les retours d’une exploration méthodologique croisant données Twitter, recrutement via Facebook et questionnaires web by Emmanuel Ravalet, Jean-François Lucas, Antoine Lohou

“…The presence of some groups of population on the Internet and the important activity they generate suggest that social scientists think about the methodological perspectives to capture such information. …”
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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

“…For this, the main proposals presented for social scientists, more specifi cally anthropology and sociology representatives will be analyzed. …”
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Defining Blackness in Colombia by Peter Wade

“…This paper looks at the complex relationship between concepts employed by social scientists and those used in everyday practice and discourse, arguing that the standard ideas about how ideas travel from one domain (state, academe, social movements, everyday usage) to another, and become essentialised or destabilised in the process, are often too simple. …”
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Utilization of Information Communication Technologies in Effective Administration of Secondary Schools in Mitooma District of Uganda by Irene, Aheisibwe, Muramuzi Sprito, Byamukama

“…Statistical Package for Social Scientists software version 23.0 was used to analyze the data. …”
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Reflections on the Intermediate Data Structure (IDS) by George Alter

“…To encompass the complexity of life histories, IDS relies on data structures that are unfamiliar to most social scientists. This article examines four features of IDS that make it flexible and expandable: the Entity-Attribute-Value model, the relational database model, embedded metadata, and the Chronicle file. …”
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Le populisme climatique de Donald J. Trump et le libre marché des idées by Jean-Daniel Collomb

“…Further, the article shows that Donald Trump uses all the forms of climate skepticism which have been identified by social scientists. In addition, the article demonstrates that the current political and media environment in the United States reinforces climate populism.…”
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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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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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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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