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This book presents and discusses the logic and method of social science research adapted mainly for instruction at Arab universities and for research in Arab countries, but with applicability beyond the region. It illustrates major concepts and methods pertaining to research with examples of previous studies carried out in the Arab world and with exercises using Arab Barometer and other datasets. The book situates itself between a regular methods textbook and an annotated list of major concepts and methods, and includes an introduction, three chapters, and four appendices.

A pioneering book on prisons in West Africa, Colonial Systems of Control: Criminal Justice in Nigeria is the first comprehensive presentation of life inside a West African prison. Chapters by prisoners inside Kirikiri maximum security prison in Lagos, Nigeria are published alongside chapters by scholars and activists. While prisoners document the daily realities and struggles of life inside a Nigerian prison, scholar and human rights activist Viviane Saleh-Hanna provides historical, political, and academic contexts and analyses of the penal system in Nigeria. The European penal models and institutions imported to Nigeria during colonialism are exposed as intrinsically incoherent with the community-based conflict-resolution principles of most African social structures and justice models. This book presents the realities of imprisonment in Nigeria while contextualizing the colonial legacies that have resulted in the inhumane brutalities that are endured on a daily basis

The idea that mechanisms are crucially important to differentiate between genuine and spurious causal relations is ubiquitous both in the philosophical and in the social scientific literature. Yet philosophers of the social sciences have seldom attempted to spell out systematically the way in which mechanistic reasoning or evidence are concretely used to deal with spurious association and the problem of confounders in the social sciences. In this paper, we analyze two recent such accounts, proposed by Harold Kincaid and Daniel Steel. We show how these two accounts radically differ in their notion of mechanism (a process account, and a complex system account, respectively), and how this ultimately impacts in the way in which they understand the inferential role of mechanisms in the social sciences. We then confront both accounts with the details of a well-known controversy around the purportedly causal association between the legalization of abortion and the subsequent fall in criminality in the United States. We show the limitations of both accounts in representing accurately the role of mechanistic evidence and hypotheses in practice.

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What is the role of the social sciences in international law? This article maps how international law interacts with the social sciences, including its concepts, findings, methods, and epistemologies. It provides a first encompassing genealogy of social science references in six renowned international law journals, including the American, Asian, European, Leiden, and Nordic Journal of International Law as well as the British International and Comparative Law Quarterly, by using a corpus linguistic approach that encompasses more than 15,000 documents from 1907 to 2022. Moreover, it explores how structural factors related to the institutionalization and funding of certain strands of social science-inspired international law scholarship have influenced regional and temporal patterns in Europe, Germany, and Australia.

AbstractWhile the concept and measurement of race has been a longstanding focus of social science research, capturing its significance requires a broader notion than utilizing only racial group categories. More recently, race has been treated as both a "characteristic" and a set of experiences that affect a multitude of life conditions and outcomes. This discussion and analysis moves away from treating race as only a categorical and static characteristic to a multi-dimensional concept that is dynamic, relational, and represents the intersection of individual, ecological, and structural components. By exploring the data collection of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research and studies that include race as a variable, we were able to trace how race has been used by social scientists over the past 60 years. Using an extensive coding protocol, we have attained key characteristics of the principal investigator(s) (PI), funders, scope of the overall study, and the use of different measures of race. As a result, this "meta-analysis" of social science surveys enabled this researcher to examine how these studies use a wide scope of racial "variables," and the way in which PI characteristics affected the inclusion of race-related items. In addition, bivariate analysis is presented to examine social scientists' tendencies in investigating race and inclusion of qualitative examples of item wordings and response categories. This overview of social science studies is placed in the context of conceptual and measurement issues surrounding the use and meaning of race. Hopefully this can serve to advance the discussion and strategic approaches in doing research about race and what should be incorporated in studying race as a lived experience.

Presidential address before the Am. political science association, San Francisco, Aug. 28, 1951.

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Résumé Les études sociales des sciences ( Science and Technology Studies, STS) ont profondément transformé l'analyse de la représentation scientifique. D'une opération désignant la visualisation plus ou moins exacte d'une réalité physique stable, la représentation scientifique devient le résultat de la construction de chaines de médiations. Dans cette optique, la représentation est un processus instrumenté, dont les effets ont trait à l'existence même des objets concernés, et dont la validité dépend des espaces où elle circule. Cette perspective peut être adoptée pour décrire la représentation politique comprise comme le processus permettant de choisir les représentants. L'exemple de situations hybrides montre que la description en termes de chaîne de médiations n'est pas vouée à qualifier soit la « science », soit la « politique ». Les situations hybrides ne sont pas à étudier pour elle-même, mais en tant que composantes d'ordres constitutionnels dont la description doit mettre au jour l'articulation entre dispositifs de représentation.

Celebrating its 5th anniversary, this year's Science in the House exhibition was a most memorable occasion. The event was held on Thursday 29th September at 11:00 am in the main foyer of the Parliament Building in Valletta. The event commenced with opening remarks from Prof. Alex Felice, chairman of the Science in the City/European Researchers' Night consortium followed by a distinguished list of speakers including Prof. Alfred Vella, Rector of the University of Malta, the Hon. Evarist Bartolo M.P., Minister for Education and Employment, and the Hon. Anglu Farrugia M.P., Speaker of the House of Representatives, Parliament of Malta. This year's event showcased a selection of research projects on neuroscience and brain research in addition to the regular compliment of posters from across various research disciplines. A set of four posters on the neuroscience theme presented research on the use of stereo-electroencephalography (EEG), the treatment of epilepsy with light, biochemical studies of autism and research related to depression, addition and epilepsy. Science in the House is organised by the Malta Chamber of Scientists, the RIDT and the Science in the City/European Researchers' Night consortium and part funded by the EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action of the Horizon 2020 (H2020) Programme. ; peer-reviewed

Am 25. November feierte das Journal Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research sein 30-jähriges Bestehen. Der Herausgeber des Journals – Ronald J. Pohoryles – lud mit Unterstützung der Wirtschaftskammer Österreich, Wien Kultur und dem Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft in das Palais Eppstein am Wiener Burgring zur...