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The "quantum" label has become a desirable brand in social studies, with notable prominence being given to Karen Barad's agential realism, as presented in her book Meeting the Universe Halfway. This article provides an overview of the key ideas in the book, exemplifying the ways these ideas may help us "do inquiry" in the social sciences. By drawing from Barad's writing and making comparisons with other social thinking with quantum elements, we can demonstrate the potential for productive and insightful avenues of investigation across interdisciplinary areas, particularly through a consideration of diffractive approaches to inquiry.

This study, based on a mail survey of 111 public relations specialists, finds that most professionals feel that knowledge of social science techniques is important. Yet while about one-sixth of respondents reported using research in all their programs, one-third reported little use. The most used research techniques were focus groups, mail surveys and telephone and personal interviews.

This research aims to investigate the attitude of natural science and social science students toward their English class, as well as the evaluative language employed in expressing their opinions toward English class. The study employs Martin & White's (2005) appraisal framework to analyze the language used. The participants in the study consist of 60 high school students, with 30 students from the Natural Science major and 30 students from the Social Sciences major, who were selected using the purposive sampling method. The students were requested to write a narrative text outlining their experiences and perceptions of the English class they attended for one semester. The analysis result show that both science and social science students tend to give positive evaluations towards the English class they attend. However, science students are more inclined to give positive evaluations compared to social science students.

AbstractPartisan criminological analysis is characterized by dogmatic theories whose volidity is politically rather thon scientifically determined. Methods of inquiry ore used to demonstrate rather thon test theoretical propositions. Standard methodological tactics include assertion, anecdote, association, and analogy. In contrast, nonpartisan conflict analysis treats as entirely problematic the processes by which conceptions of deviance are socially constructed and become the official concerns of those who wield state power. What, how, why, and by whom behavioral or nonbehovioral attributes are labeled deviant is viewed as o function of the relative power of parties in conflict over the distribution of life chances.

Résumé La recherche sociologique a traditionnellement cherché à expliquer le droit soit en termes de rapports de force, de pouvoir et de domination, soit dans ceux de la modernité et de la rationalisation, soit encore comme traduction symbolique d'une culture intériorisée. Toutes ces perspectives ont en commun de porter sur le droit, ses manifestations, les phénomènes qui s'y rattachent et ses pratiques, un regard extérieur qui ne prend pas le droit au sérieux dans sa dimension praxéologique. A l'inverse, l'analyse ethnométhodologique s'intéresse au droit en tant qu'il est, de part en part, une activité pratique. Pour montrer ce que cela recouvre, l'article procède en quatre temps. Tout d'abord, il identifie le « fossé descriptif » qui caractérise l'appréhension traditionnelle du droit par les sciences sociales. Il pointe ensuite, à partir de l'exemple des théories du pluralisme juridique, quelques-uns des problèmes suscités par la sociologie du droit. Il cherche, en troisième lieu, à définir les points majeurs de la respécification qu'il suggère. Enfin, il brosse la carte des études praxéologiques ayant pris le droit pour objet.

Biological explanations shaped criminology at its inception, and today they are reemerging with fresh vigor and increased potential. But many criminologists do not understand how biological theories developed, what they contributed to criminology generally and where they went astray. This paper focuses on the work of Earnest A. Hooton, whose criminological studies, published in 1939, met with decidedly mixed reviews but were nonetheless discussed for decades in criminological textbooks. Information about a now half‐forgotten and misunderstood figure like Hooton, in addition to being useful in and of itself, contributes to the history of criminology as a discipline—a project essential to the field's ultimate maturity. It helps build a history of criminological knowledge.

A review essay on books by (1) Giovanni Arrighi, The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times (London: Verso, 1994); & (2) George Modelski & William R. Thompson, Leading Sectors and World Powers: The Coevolution of Global Economics and Politics (Columbia: U South Carolina Press, 1996). The use of historicization in international relations & policy-making contexts & problems associated with the use of history to develop social theory are discussed. The macrohistorical perspective of these volumes avoids many of the previous errors in the use of history, providing a theoretically sophisticated & historically sensitive understanding of long-term social processes. Arrighi's work explores the origins of capitalism, while Modelski & Thompson examine the relationship between economic growth, global political leadership, & war. The logic, method, & evidence used to develop the works' arguments are outlined, & their strengths & weaknesses are identified. 23 References. J. Ferrari

The emergence of big data offers not only a potential boon for social scientific inquiry, but also raises distinct epistemological issues for this new area of research. Drawing on interviews conducted with researchers at the forefront of big data research, we offer insight into questions of causal versus correlational research, the use of inductive methods, and the utility of theory in the big data age. While our interviewees acknowledge challenges posed by the emergence of big data approaches, they reassert the importance of fundamental tenets of social science research such as establishing causality and drawing on existing theory. They also discussed more pragmatic issues, such as collaboration between researchers from different fields, and the utility of mixed methods. We conclude by putting the themes emerging from our interviews into the broader context of the role of data in social scientific inquiry, and draw lessons about the future role of big data in research.

Investigates how activists confront global powers with their street-level dissent. Two Sides of a Barricade argues that to construct global democracy, conflict and dissent must be taken seriously. Christian Scholl explores the political significance of the confrontations within four sites of interaction: bodies, space, communication, and law. Each site of struggle provides a different entry point to understand the influence of protester and police tactics on each other. At the same time, the four sites of struggle allow a comprehensive analysis of how the contestation of global hegemonic forces during summit protests trigger a preemptive shift in social control through increased deployment of biopolitical forms of power. Christian Scholl is Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He is the coauthor (with Amory Starr and Luis Fernandez) of Shutting Down the Streets: Political Violence and Social Control in the Global Era .