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The dominant emphasis in present social science has been description, explanation, & prediction. This emphasis, & the associated exclusion of normative theory, has been criticized as amounting to tacit support for existing institutions. An alternative role for social science is the deduction of alternative possible social orders from existing tensions & problems, which can then be empirically tested. A variety of utopian & radical sources are reviewed. One possible new social order is specified. Crucial to this order is a scale permitting face-to-face contacts & participatory democracy, within a framework of commitment to the satisfaction of human needs. This model should not be taken as a rigid prescription, but as a starting point for further discussion. Modified HA.

Die Absicht des Beitrags ist es, über die Entwicklung und den Stand der Allgemeinen Bevölkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften (ALLBUS) zu berichten. Begonnen wird mit einem Resümee des ALLBUS 1980, in dem aufgezeigt wird, wie der ALLBUS genutzt wird. Außerdem wird das den ALLBUS erweiternde Codebuch präsentiert. Am Beispiel der Frage nach dem politischen Interesse werden die Vergleichsdaten und Modifikationen erläutert. Dann wird ein Überblick über den Stand der Arbeiten zum ALLBUS 1982 und der Angebote an die Benutzer gegeben. Schließlich wird die vergleichende Methodenstudie zum ALLBUS 1982 vorgestellt. Es handelt sich dabei um einen Skalenvergleich, bei dem die Frage nach der Vergleichbarkeit von Einstellungsmessungen gestellt wird. Grundlegend für den Untersuchungsansatz ist die Idee, die konventionelle Skalierungsform der Items, eine numerische 7-stufige Kategorialskalierung, durch eine bi-modale Magnitude-Messung derselben Items zu ergänzen. Es wird der Stand des Projekts skizziert. (RW)

Suggests that the function of UNESCO in the social sciences is to unite the social scientists of all countries in a concerted attack upon the crucial question of the age - how the peoples of the world can learn to live together in peace. (Quotes from original text)

International audience ; This article considers the conflicts linking the social question to the social sciences in Germany around 1900 through the analysis of the student associations for social sciences (Sozialwissenschaftliche Studentenvereine). Students did not seek an introduction to social sciences as academic scientific disciplines in particular, which remained loosely autonomous and suffered from heterogeneous definitions and uses. Much more, students looked for a scientific legitimacy for the resolution of the social question, a task that had to be tackled by the elite they felt destined to join. For a large part of university and political authorities, this interest for the social question could only mean socialism. Therefore, they repressed these associations, especially in Prussia, despite their certain attractivity. The history of these associations allows to understand the attempts to redefine the social role of elites as well as the institutionalisation of the social sciences, which turn out to be closely linked. ; Cet article revient sur les conflits qui lient question sociale et sciences sociales en Allemagne autour de 1900, en mettant au cœur de l'analyse les associations étudiantes de sciences sociales (Sozialwissenschaftliche Studentenvereine). Ce ne sont pas tant les sciences sociales en tant que disciplines universitaires, faiblement autonomisées et aux définitions et usages encore hétérogènes, qui sont recherchées par les étudiants, qu'un cadre et une légitimité scientifiques au règlement de la question sociale, tâche à laquelle doit s'atteler l'élite qu'ils s'estiment destinés à rejoindre. Pour une large partie des autorités universitaires et politiques, cet investissement de la question sociale ne peut qu'être synonyme de socialisme et elles se sont attachées, surtout en Prusse, à réprimer ces associations, malgré leur certaine attractivité. Ces associations rendent en cela visibles les tentatives de redéfinition du rôle social des élites et l'institutionnalisation universitaire des ...

International audience ; This article considers the conflicts linking the social question to the social sciences in Germany around 1900 through the analysis of the student associations for social sciences (Sozialwissenschaftliche Studentenvereine). Students did not seek an introduction to social sciences as academic scientific disciplines in particular, which remained loosely autonomous and suffered from heterogeneous definitions and uses. Much more, students looked for a scientific legitimacy for the resolution of the social question, a task that had to be tackled by the elite they felt destined to join. For a large part of university and political authorities, this interest for the social question could only mean socialism. Therefore, they repressed these associations, especially in Prussia, despite their certain attractivity. The history of these associations allows to understand the attempts to redefine the social role of elites as well as the institutionalisation of the social sciences, which turn out to be closely linked. ; Cet article revient sur les conflits qui lient question sociale et sciences sociales en Allemagne autour de 1900, en mettant au cœur de l'analyse les associations étudiantes de sciences sociales (Sozialwissenschaftliche Studentenvereine). Ce ne sont pas tant les sciences sociales en tant que disciplines universitaires, faiblement autonomisées et aux définitions et usages encore hétérogènes, qui sont recherchées par les étudiants, qu'un cadre et une légitimité scientifiques au règlement de la question sociale, tâche à laquelle doit s'atteler l'élite qu'ils s'estiment destinés à rejoindre. Pour une large partie des autorités universitaires et politiques, cet investissement de la question sociale ne peut qu'être synonyme de socialisme et elles se sont attachées, surtout en Prusse, à réprimer ces associations, malgré leur certaine attractivité. Ces associations rendent en cela visibles les tentatives de redéfinition du rôle social des élites et l'institutionnalisation universitaire des ...

As a response to Gopal Guru and Sundar Sarukkai's book The Cracked Mirror, Sanil's essay explores the relation between ethics and the social sciences. The essay engages the work of Kant, Aristotle, Martin Heidegger, and Michel Foucault, among others, to make its argument. The Cracked Mirror, Sanil claims, makes a strong plea to take Indian philosophy and theory seriously, and it comes closest to an ethics of theory when it asserts that the task of theory is not merely to explain or interpret but to intensify experience.

In a previous article I sought to appraise the field of Turkish studies, for the most part among western (predominantly American) scholars (MESA Bulletin, Vol. 3, No. 3, October 15, 1969). To fill out the picture, it is appropriate to also view the state of social research among the rapidly growing body of Turkish teachers and researchers. This article is not, however, a direct parallel to others in the MESA "State of the Art" series, in that it is not basically bibliographical. Such a review would require far more time, space, and knowledge in depth of several other social science disciplines than is currently available to me, because despite the remarks made below about problems of definition, the quantity and technical sophistication of work by Turkish researchers is quite large and is growing rapidly. Furthermore, since most of the research referred to below is in Turkish, the number of persons to whom a bibliographic review might be useful is quite limited. Instead, I think it would be more interesting to MESA members and other American social scientists to examine the characteristics and problems of what is probably one of the most vigorous social science communities in the "developing" countries, with a view (among other things) to helping facilitate increased cooperation between Turkish and American scholars in our common endeavors of advancing the state of knowledge.

Stellenausschreibung der Universität Bremen. Deadline: 2. Januar 2024

An assessment of the impact of social science on the formulation of public policy in liberal-democratic societies. As the postwar expansion became firmly entrenched in the 1950s & 1960s, many liberal-democratic states began to use social research for a number of policy purposes. In Europe, this trend resulted from the social measures & planning introduced by political reform coalitions who used social research to inform their policy choices after gaining power. Social scientists constituted a significant part of these coalitions & were able to gain access to resources & augment the role of social science in policy formulation. These developments were replicated in North America & contributed to the prestige & political significance of social science. The discussion is placed within the larger context of the social & political roles of intellectuals. AA