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ALLBUScompact ist als alternative Einsteigerversion (Public Use File)
für die komplexer strukturierte Vollversion im Angebot. Speziell für
ALLBUScompact wurde dementsprechend ein vereinfachtes Demografiemodul
selektiert, das die wichtigsten demografischen Indikatoren in einer
übersichtlichen Gruppe vereint. Die sonstigen inhaltlichen Fragemodule,
die keine sensitiven Daten enthalten, entsprechen weiterhin vollständig
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daher vor allem für Einsteiger in die Datenanalyse. Eine vollständige
Beschreibung der inhaltlichen Fragemodule finden Sie unter
Studiennummer 3751 (ALLBUS 1996).

Social science informs about the ideals and trains experts to deal with the complex social realities. It has a public purpose rooted in what we call dharma (professional and institutional responsibility) as opposed to the arrogance of reason, self-will and self-rationalization intrinsic to contemporary rational choice and modernity. Learning has a synergy - establishing connection between the world of social science theories and the drama of social life. A lack of mutual learning between Nepal's traditional faith intellectuals and modern reason-based social scientists has created a big hiatus and contradiction. The academic life of social scientists in Nepal is completely outside of spiritual, moral and ethical influence experienced by ordinary public. The spiritual blindness of modern social scientists has thus opened multiple gaps between their worldview and those of the citizens on various frontiers--theoretical knowledge and practical experience, technical understanding and composite knowledge and secularity of social science and the vitality of the Hindu-Buddhist scriptures in the popular mind, culture, behavior and practices. This has reinforced a division between the system of knowledge of social scientists and the life-world of people. The proponents of new social movements in Nepal, such as women, Dalits, Janajatis, Madhesis, youths and marginalized population are seeking a structural shift in reason-based knowledge to both reason and feeling in social science knowledge discovery. This movement can open the "captive mind" to social learning of contextual knowledge, conduct research with the citizens, provide inputs to the policy makers and reverse their linear, structure-bound, rationalist and disciplinary thinking into the one that represents what the Nepal mandala, the Nepali space, is really like and how to improve it for the better. The renewal and indigenization of qualitative social science research is important to overcome the spirited challenges posed by social forces in Nepal and contribute to the application of scientific reasoning in public policy and social change.Key Words: social movement, NepalDOI = 10.3126/dsaj.v2i0.1356Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology Vol.2 pp.1-30

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the nature of explanations as given in both natural and social sciences. It discusses models of explanation adopted in natural and social sciences. The author also elaborates upon naturalistic and anti-naturalistic views and other types of explanations such as functional, purposive, etc in social science. The volume elaborates upon themes like bridge principle; functional explanation; purposive explanation; teleological explanation; prediction; methodological individualism; methodological collectivism; illocutionary redescription; principle of action; and dispositional explanations, to understand whether the explanations given in the realm of social sciences are the same or different from the explanations that are given in the field of natural sciences. This introductory book is a must read for students and scholars of philosophy of science, logic, science and technology studies, social sciences, and philosophy in general

THE AUTHOR TRACES THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL SCIENCES IN PAKISTAN AND EVALUATES THE PRESENT STATE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES THERE. THE DIFFUSION OF SOCIAL SCIENCES IN THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT WAS SLOW, PARTICULARLY IN THOSE AREAS NOW COMPRISING PAKISTAN. SINCE INDEPENDENCE AND PARTICULARLY DURING THE 1960'S, SOCIAL SCIENCES PICKED UP MOMENTUM IN PAKISTAN. BY 1983, THERE WERE ABOUT SIXTY SOCIAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENTS IN TWELVE UNIVERSITIES. IN ADDITION, THERE WERE APPROXIMATELY ONE DOZEN INSTITUTES IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR ENGAGED IN SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH, AND A LARGE NUMBER OF GOVERNMENT IN-SERVICE TRAINING INSTITUTIONS USING SOCIAL SCIENCES IN THEIR TRAINING.