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Part of the Conference on the State of the Social Sciences held at Boston U, 6-7 Dec 2002. The session focuses on the political inclinations of the social sciences & of social scientists. The issue of politicization has been raised vis-a-vis other disciplines, notably the natural sciences, but with no great impact. The overwhelming liberal/Left leanings of the social sciences are examined in terms of their relation (or lack thereof) to the field's organization of knowledge. The implications of the field's political bent are considered, in particular, three rather calamitous effects: the inclination to lie, the inclination toward self-deception, & utopianism. A fourth possible consequence -- the threat to academic freedom -- is also discussed. K. Coddon

Cet article relate l'expérience en cours de la recherche « De la disqualification à la prise de parole en santé mentale. Recherche sur les conditions d'émergence, de reconnaissance et de prise en compte de la parole des personnes dites handicapées psychiques par les décideurs publics », initiée et menée par l'association Advocacy France, association d'usagers en santé mentale. Cette recherche-action consiste à faire réaliser par des personnes concernées un travail d'enquête sur les situations de communication avec les institutions. Il s'agit de révéler à la fois les difficultés de communication rencontrées par les personnes pour s'exprimer et les difficultés pour les institutions d'entendre la parole des personnes en situation de handicap psychique. Le défi de cette recherche est de s'appuyer sur les usagers en santé mentale eux-mêmes pour repérer ces obstacles et préconiser des bonnes pratiques permettant de les dépasser.

What are the social sciences? What unifies them? This essay collection seeks to answer these and other important questions as it considers how the field has developed over the years, from post-World War II to the present day throughout the world. Edited by Cyril Lemieux, Laurent Berger, Marielle Macé, Gildas Salmon, and Cécile Vidal, A History of the Social Sciences in 101 Books brings together a diverse range of researchers in the social sciences to present short essays on 101 books – both renowned and lesser known – that have shaped the field, from Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947) to Michel Aglietta's Money: 5000 Years of Debt and Power (2016). While there have been surveys and intellectual histories of particular disciplines within the social sciences (history, anthropology, sociology), until now there has been no intellectual history of the social sciences as a unified whole. Far from presenting a fixed and frozen canon, A History of the Social Sciences in 101 Books offers instead a moving, multiform landscape with no settled questions, only an ongoing series of new perspectives and challenges to previously established grounding.

This article of reflection problematizes the relationships between phenomenology and hermeneutics as epistemic places of research work through a documentary approach built in two phases. First, the text reflects on the terminological use present in the paradigms, approaches, epistemological perspectives, and research methods, thereby identifying that there is no criteria univocity in its references and approaches about research methodology treaties. Likewise, it is evident that there are methodological proposals that include phenomenology and hermeneutics in a complementary, articulated, or isolated way without allowing precise places of understanding that allow to locate their application in research. Based on the aforementioned, the second phase proposes an individual approach to the background and comprehensions of phenomenology and hermeneutics, identifying particularities that characterize them, possible theoretical-practical differences and approaches that can be established in view of their relevance from the epistemic and methodological framework of research in human and social sciences.
This article is a translation from the Spanish version "La hermenéutica y la fenomenología en la investigación en ciencias humanas y sociales", published in Civilizar, 19(37), 2019. doi: 10.22518/usergioa/jour/ccsh/2019.2/a09. The translation has been authorized and approved by the authors and the Editor.