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Some of the most pressing concerns of our time, such as crises connected to migration, the welfare state, international law and terrorism, are part of the Swedish upper secondary school subject Social Science. This means that Social Science teaching easily generates intense emotions, sparks of which are lit in the encounter between the students, the teacher, and the specific content of the school subject Social Science. This aim of this dissertation is to examine what emotions do in the teaching of the school subject Social Science (samhällskunskap) and what the subject Social Science does to emotions. This is examined through an ethnographic exploration of Social Science teaching in four different Swedish upper secondary schools. Barbara Rosenwein's concept emotional communities is central to the analysis, as are Sara Ahmed's emotion-oriented conceptualisations of movement, attachment and contact.In the study, it is shown how an emotional community of Social Science teaching emerges that in part is different from comparable emotional communities in other school subjects, such as History and Religious Education. There is furthermore a dissonance between the role emotions are supposed to play in the teaching and the role emotions actually do play. Despite being clearly related to the specific subject content of Social Science, it is also important to note that emotions are always relational, which leads to attachments and detachments in the group of teacher and students. Emotions in Social Science teaching are moreover connected to conflictuality, multiperspectivity, ideas about 'the good citizen', and the subject's inherent contemporaneity.An important result of the dissertation is that in emotionally intense teaching situations, teachers' attempts to use a 'traditional', rationality-oriented Social Science analysis do not resonate with the students. The examined cases of Social Science teaching therefore seem to suffer from a traditional division between rationality and emotionality that largely has characterized political analysis in the 20th century. A rapprochement between the students' lifeworld and the school subject's disciplinary analysis would benefit from an increased use of the emotional dimension and community of Social Science teaching.

Distilling decades of work spanning their prestigious careers, Mary M. and Kenneth J. Gergen make a strong case for enriching the social sciences through performative work. They present a unique exploration of the origins of performative social science and provide an intellectually rich overview of its significance in the field, as well as its evolving potential. Many of their own performance pieces are included in the volume. The authors envision a broadening of the social sciences, making it more accessible to non-experts and opening up new dialogues between society and science-and changing the world in the process. Social scientists and researchers will gain a valuable new perspective from this insightful tome.

Argues that once the modern world accepted ideologically the normality of change, it became relevant to study it. A number of so-called disciplines came into being, and eventually there appeared to be 5 generally accepted branches of the study of social processes. (SJO)

Industrial interests are widely assumed to exert significant influence on the environmental policy process in Russia. However, the nature and extent of this influence has not been tested. This thesis examines the environmental policymaking process, focusing on the role played by industry. Seen within a broader context, this topic touches on a number of concepts of central importance to Russian studies. These concepts can be presented as three tensions; between pluralist and centralised understandings, between institutionalised and personalist approaches, and between formal and informal politics. Taken together, these tensions represent two broad ways of understanding the Russian political system. The first suggests a system in which power is dispersed among a range of actors. In the second, the system is closed to outside interests. This thesis explores which of the two models is prevalent in the context of environmental policymaking.The policy network approach has been adopted to test the conceptual approach. Environmental policy outcomes are hypothesised to be the result of interaction between the environmental and the industry policy networks. Three policy process case studies are presented, from the forest sector, the oil and gas sector, and a cross-sectoral study. The study identifies the actors which comprise the two networks, and explores their interaction and ability to determine policy outcomes. Industry is found to be an autonomous actor, and able to influence policy outcomes. The study reveals the importance of business associations, which are found to be the channel through which industry chooses to operate. Environmental interests are significantly less able to achieve desired policy outcomes in comparison with industry. However, they are found to be active participants in the process, particularly in the initiation and drafting of policy proposals. The empirical evidence points to a political system that has strong formal, pluralist and institutionalist elements. The environmental policy process suggests that Russia more closely resembles a system in which power is dispersed among a number of actors. At the same time however, political leadership is seen to play an important role in the policy process, in a way not currently explained by institutionalist approaches.

Introduction : The Renaissance / Orville Vernon Burton -- Technological revolutions I have known / Edward L. Ayers -- Rewiring the history and social studies classroom : needs, frameworks, dangers, and proposals / Randy Bass and Roy Rosenzweig -- Validity of web-based surveys : explorations with data from 2,382 teenagers / William Sims Bainbridge -- Computer environments for content analysis : reconceptualizing the roles of humans and computers / William Evans -- Electronic texts in the historical profession : perspectives from across the scholarly spectrum / Wendy Plotkin -- Social activism through computer networks / Daniel J. Myers -- Creating cybertrust : illustrations and guidelines / H. Jeanie Taylor and Cheris Kramarae -- Electronic networks for international research collaboration : implications for intellectual property protection in the early twenty-first century / Carole Ganz-Brown

The interests of the communications researcher often bring him onto common ground with other social scientists. The long-range, cumulative effects of the mass media are of common concern, as is the study of the communicator himself. Com munications research has some familiar problems of method, and also some techniques such as content analysis that could be redirected to provide a new way for studying social and selective aspects of perception. Multidisciplinary team research may not live up to its billings, but interdisciplinary appreciation is always worth seeking. The author is Director of the Research Division of the University of Minnesota's School of Journalism; this article is based on a talk he gave at the University of Oregon in March 1960.

The transition of the age of enlightenment has been interrogated in several ways. Weber traces the relationship between asceticism and the rise of capitalism in the seventeenth century. Elias discusses the cultivation of civility, founded on rationalization, social constraints and self-restraint, in interrogating the making of the French courtiers and bourgeois society. In analysing the development of the public sphere, Habermas identifies the importance of conversation, predicated on rationality and sociability. Foucault stresses the disciplining of the self to prepare the individuals to participate in the public sphere. To contribute to the above dialogue, this thesis interrogates the idiom of politeness as a constituent of the ethical and aesthetic landscape of eighteenth-century England. It analyses the themes of asceticism, rationality and sociability implicit in the three components of politeness: self-cultivation, social interaction and cultural construction. To trace the rise and pursuit of politeness, this thesis refers to the writing of the third Earl of Shaftesbury, the journal of Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, correspondence of Josiah Wedgwood, and secondary historical literature. This thesis interrogates the life of Wedgwood, a non-Calvinist, to illustrate that capitalism in the post-puritan era did not function on a mechanistic foundation as suggested by Weber. Rather, it proposes that the ethic of politeness, rooted in asceticism and predicated on rationality and sociability, exerted its influence on the new class of gentlemen, represented by Wedgwood in his role as a capitalist, cultural producer and citizen-patriot. Using the empirical evidence collected, this thesis argues that the reformulation of the Continental courtly notion of civility provided a new polite idiom that expanded the stratum of the social elite, and established a new basis for the political legitimacy and social identity of the ascendant commercial class. It concludes that the ethic of politeness, which facilitated the new aristocratic-bourgeois alliance, also supported the development of the public sphere in eighteenth-century England as theorised by Habermas.