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Die in diesem Band enthaltenen Beiträge, die sich mit der aus Deutschland kommenden sozialwissenschaftlichen Emigration nach den USA und England auseinandersetzen, vereinigen vier thematische Perspektiven, in denen sowohl die subjektiven als auch die objektivierbaren Auswirkungen der Emigration festgehalten werden: die Prägung der Identität der Emigranten durch die Emigrationssituation, die Wirkung der emigrierten Wissenschaftler in ihren Gastländern, die ein wesentlicher Bestandteil der Exilsituation war, der Niederschlag der Emigrationserfahrung im jeweiligen Werk sowie das Verhältnis zu den Heimatländern. Dabei wurden die Beiträge so gewählt, daß sowohl Aussagen aus dem Personenkreis der Emigrierten als auch die Ergebnisse der Forscher der nachfolgenden Generation vertreten sind, so daß sich persönliche und wissenschaftliche Rekonstruktion der Themenschwerpunkte wechselseitig ergänzen.

Recalls the origins of the International Social Science Journal, reviews the evolution of its editorial policies and presentation, and sketches the variety of authors who have written for it and the range of themes dealt with. (Quotes from original text)

In 'Contested Belonging: Spaces, Practices, Biographies' contributions by well-known international scholars from different disciplines address the sites, practices, and narratives in which belonging is imagined, enacted and constrained, negotiated and contested. Belonging is viewed from the perspectives of both migrants and refugees in their host countries as well as from people who are ostensibly at home and yet may experience various degrees of alienation in their countries of origin. The book focuses on three particular dimensions of belonging: belonging as space (neighbourhood, workplace, home), as practice (virtual, physical, cultural), and as biography (life stories, group narratives). What role do physical, digital, transnational and in-between spaces play and how are they used in order to create/contest belonging? Which practices do people engage in in order to gain/foster/invent a certain/new sense of belonging? What can the biographies and narratives of people reveal about their complicated and contested experiences of belonging? Contested Belonging: Spaces, Practices, Biographies convincingly shows how individual and collective struggles for belonging are not only associated with exclusion and othering, but also lead to surprising and inspiring forms of social action and transformation, suggesting that there may be more reason for hope than for despair.

A pioneer in Performative Social Science, Kip Jones makes a case for the potential of arts-based social science to reach audiences and engage communities. Jones contextualises both the use of the arts in Social Science, as well as the utility of Social Science in the Arts and Humanities. The discussion turns next to examples from his own work and what happens when Art talks to Social Science and Social Science responds to Art. The benefits of such interaction and interdisciplinarity are outlined in relation to a recently completed project using multi-methods, which resulted in the production of a professional short film. In conclusion, Performative Social Science is redefined in terms of synthesis that can break down old boundaries, open up channels of communication and empower communities through engagement.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- An Overview of the Text -- Part I Engaging the Ontological Turn -- 1 A Turn From what? -- 2 An Overview of Vibrant Materialism -- 3 Paradigm Changes -- Part II Methodological Contradictions in Social Science Inquiry -- 4 Objectivity in Research -- The McDonaldization of Society -- Quantification -- Falsification -- Objectivity and Truth -- 5 Instruments of Measurement -- Questionnaires -- The Ontology of Instrumentation -- 6 Beyond Cause and Effect -- The General Linear Model -- Probabilities -- Spurious Relationships -- Noise -- Nonlinearity and Complexity -- Quantum Mechanics and the Death Knell of Causality -- 7 Zombie Categories -- Against Binaries -- 8 Data -- 9 The Crisis of Representation -- Voice -- Language -- Colonization -- 10 Reflexivity and its Discontents -- Part III Diffractive Ethnography -- 11 A Brief Overview of Ethnography -- Qualitative 4.0 -- 12 Thinking with Theory -- 13 Assemblages and Entanglements -- Deleuze and Guattari -- Latour -- Barad -- 14 Diffraction -- Physics and Sociology -- Quantum Philosophy -- Acts of Diffraction -- Nature/Culture Theorizing -- 15 The Liveliness of Matter -- Agency -- Performativity -- How Forests Think -- Liquidity -- Below -- Electric -- Part IV Becoming -- 16 Healing the Nature/Culture Divide -- Natural Resources -- Reimagining the Public -- 17 The Ethics of Entanglements -- References -- Index

AbstractAgent-based models (ABMs) are increasingly important in social science research. They have two obvious apparent virtues: they can model complex macrosociological phenomena without strong assumptions about agents and without analytic solutions for models, and they seem to instantiate the methodological individualist program in a concrete way. We argue that the latter claim is false. After providing schematic accounts of ABM models and a first introduction to ways in which to characterize individualist explanations, we work through six conceptions of individualist explanations that are decreasingly "less individualist" and argue that ABM-based explanations in the social sciences are not inevitably individualist in any of these senses. ABMs allow for explanatory relations among social entities and properties in the model environment and they are silent on what basic agents are, allowing social entities and properties to play basic explanatory roles.

A discussion of the growing interest among social & natural scientists in research on the human dimensions of global environmental change. Here, three questions are addressed: (1) Why should social scientists conduct a major research effort on global change when other important research topics require attention? (2) Can social science contribute to the larger scientific research effort in global change & influence ongoing efforts in other sciences? (3) How will the study of global change influence or contribute to the social sciences? It is concluded that, despite the importance of the research issues, the success of the research field will depend on the ability of the social sciences to develop an international infrastructure of databases, research institutions, & research networks on global environmental change. 2 Photographs. Modified AA

Many of the best and brightest citizens of developing countries choose to emigrate to wealthier societies, taking their skills and educations with them. What do these people owe to their societies of origin? May developing societies legitimately demand that their citizens use their skills to improve life for their fellow citizens? Are these societies ever permitted to prevent their own citizens from emigrating? These questions are increasingly important, as the gap between rich and poor societies widens, and as the global migration of skilled professionals intensifies. This volume addresses th.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: The Pittsburgh Survey in Historical Perspective | Margo Anderson & -- Maurine W. Greenwald -- 2. The Social Survey Movement and Early Twentieth-Century Sociological Methodology | Martin Bulmer -- 3. The Pittsburgh Survey and the Survey Movement: An Episode in the History of Expertise | Stephen Turner -- 4. The Failure of Fair Wages and the Death of Labor Republicanism: The Ideological Legacy of the Pittsburgh Survey | Steven R. Cohen -- 5. The Pittsburgh Survey and "Greater Pittsburgh": A Muddled Metropolitan Geography | Edward K. Muller -- 6. Seeking the Meaning of Life: The Pittsburgh Survey and the Family | S. J. Kleinberg -- 7. Does the Evidence Support the Argument?: Margaret Byington's Cost of Living Survey of Homestead | Margo Anderson -- 8. Visualizing Pittsburgh in the 1900s: Art and Photography in the Service of Social Reform | Maurine W. Greenwald -- 9. Civic Leaders and Environmental Reform: The Pittsburgh Survey and Urban Planning | John F. Bauman & -- Margaret Spratt -- 10. The Pittsburgh Survey as an Environmental Statement | Joel A. Tarr -- 11. The Spirit of '92: Popular Opposition in Homestead's Politics and Culture, 1892-1937 | Richard Oestreicher -- 12. Optimism, Dilemmas, and Progress: The Pittsburgh Survey and Black Americans | Laurence A. Glasco -- 13. The Immigrants Pictured and Unpictured in the Pittsburgh Survey | Ewa Morawska -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index.

Social scientists from various disciplines discuss and offer predictions about the future.Predicting the future is notoriously difficult. But systematic analysis leads to clearer understanding and wiser decisions. Thinking about the future also makes social scientists focus their research into the past and present more fruitfully, with more attention to key predictors of change.This book considers how we might think intelligently about the future. Taking different methodological approaches, well-known specialists forecast likely future developments and trends in human life. The questions they address include: How many humans will there be? Will there be enough energy? How will climate change affect our lives? What patterns of work will exist? How will government work at the local, national, and world level? Will inflation remain under control? Why have past forecasts been so bad? The book concludes with a discussion of the intellectual and historical context of futurology and a look at the accuracy of predictions that were made for the year 2000. Jed.

Contents -- Acknowledgement -- Chapter One: Problem, Purpose, Plan -- Chapter Two: James Coleman: Educational Policy for Youth and High Schools -- Chapter Three: Eli Ginzberg: Manpower and Human Resources Policy -- Chapter Four: Morris Janowitz: Military Institutions, the Draft, and the Volunteer Army -- Chapter Five: Joseph A. Pechman: Comprehensive Income Taxation -- Chapter Six: Merton J. Peck: Deregulation of the Transportation Industry -- Chapter Seven: Peter Rossi: Unemployment Insurance Payments and Recidivism Among Released Prisoners

In this essay, the authors consider the challenge made by two keynote speakers at recent social work research conferences, one in the United States and the other in Europe. Both spoke of a knowledge crisis in social work. Both John Brekke (Society for Social Work and Research) and Peter Sommerfeld (First Annual European Conference for Social Work Research) proposed some version of realism as a solution to the crisis. The authors will deepen the argument for realism, however, by discussing how a critical realist perspective allows us to rethink positivist and conventionalist assumptions about the fact/value relation. Using a critical realist philosophy of social science, the authors discuss how social work has taken up positivism and myriad forms of conventionalism and also identify how practical knowledge gradually loses its place and thus contribute to social work's ongoing knowledge crisis. The authors then offer a way of thinking about practice. The authors will consider forms of practice knowledge and propose that social work has four kinds that unfold in essentially open systems: discursive, visual, embodied, and liquid systems, and that each of these have both tacit and explicit dimensions. These forms of practice, moreover, are inevitably situated in theory-to-practice gaps (the authors call them phenomenological practice gaps), which are the source of social work's knowledge crisis. The authors conclude with a discussion of the role of reflexivity in a science of social work.