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Social Science Metadata and the Foundations of the DDI

Reflections on a Quest for Social Science Data in Vietnam

Establishing an Australian Social Science Data Archive: Progress and Plans

Notes on the Social Sciences as Producers of Technologies

An argument is made against the conventional viewpoint that the natural sciences are void of all subjectivity, bias, & personal or political moral values. Using the "emancipatory sciences" of feminism, antiracism, & class struggles, common assumptions are presented that demonstrate the problems involved in eliminating social biases from research techniques. These emancipatory sciences usually either: (1) ignore the other's concerns; (2) define the other's concerns as a causal outcome of one's own concerns; or (3) include, only incidentally, the concerns of the others into one's own concerns. It is imperative that the relationships among gender, race, & class become more cohesive. The class problem, eg, should be recognized as manifesting itself in different forms depending on the race & gender of those involved. 19 References. R. Logsdon

RéSUMé. — La possibilité d'une coopération féconde entre philosophie morale et sciences humaines et sociales est exclue par certains philosophes et sociologues parce que, d'après eux, leurs disciplines sont orientées dans des directions complètement opposées. Les sciences humaines et sociales portent sur ce qui est ; la philosophie morale sur qui doit être. À mon avis, c'est une erreur qui provient du fait qu'ils ne tiennent pas compte de l'existence de principes du raisonnement moral (« devoir » implique « pouvoir » ; « pas de différence normative sans différence factuelle », etc.) et de théories morales (différentes variétés d'éthique des vertus ou de conséquentialisme) qui établissent des passages entre ce qui est et ce qui doit être.

This article is not about the gun control issue per se; instead, it considers the way in which this issue has been treated by social scientists. The article points to some of the shortcomings in what is commonly referred to as the conventional social scientific approach to controversial social matters. While the subject examined in the article is gun control, other equally controversial issues, such as school busing or the legalization of marijuana, could have been used as well to make the same points.SUMMARYUsing the gun control issue as a case in point, this article has argued that the conventional social scientific treatment of controversial social phenomena often has much more in common with sagecraft than it does with social science. The social scientific treatment of the gun issue passed on to the general public through magazine articles, the published findings of various social‐science‐assisted commissions, and social science textbooks, is generally identical to the pro‐gun control argument accepted by that segment of American society with which the more prominent social scientists are more likely to identify—namely urban, college educated, philosophically and politically liberal, upper‐middle class, or cosmopolitan America. It would appear that cosmopolitan ethnocentrism and the sage orientation that it fosters do little to encourage the intellectual curiosity and skepticism so vital to the social scientific enterprise.

Observations on The "vanity of the philosopher" / Charles R. McCann, Jr. -- The "vanity of the philosopher": analytical egalitarianism, associationist psychology, and eugenic remaking? / Andrew Farrant -- In the shadows of vanity: religion and the debate over hierarchy / J. Daniel Hammond -- The vanity of the economist: a comment on Peart and Levy's The "vanity of the philosopher" / Kevin D. Hoover -- Classical equality: on the content on analytical egalitarianism / Joseph Persky -- Thinking about analytical egalitarianism / David M. Levy and Sandra J. Peart -- Social anthropology in economic literature at the end of the 19th century: eugenic and racial explanations of inequality / Terezio Maccabelli.

Table of Contents: Introduction: Social Science and Empire: A Durable Tension, Jeremy Adelman (Princeton University, USA) - 1. Campillo's Theory of Commercial Empire: Political Economy and Commercial Reform in the Spanish Empire, Fidel Tavarez, (University of Chicago, USA) - 2. Poor Mao's Almanack? Empire, Political Economy, and the Transformation of Social Science, Sophus A. Reinert, (Harvard University, USA) - 3. Utilitarianism and the Question of Free Labor in Russia and India in the Eighteenth Century, Alessandro Stanziani, (EHESS, Paris, France) - 4. Geography and the Reshaping of the Modern Chinese Empire, Shellen Wu, (University of Tennessee, USA) - 5. The Periphery's Order: Opium and Moral Wreckage in British Burma, Diana Kim, (Georgetown University, USA) - 6. Custom in the Archive: The Birth of Modern Chinese Law at the End of Empire, Matthew Erie, (Oxford University, UK) - 7. Nitobe Inazo and the Diffusion of a Knowledgeable Empire, Alexis Dudden, (University of Connecticut, USA) - 8. Modern Imperialism and International Law, Josh Derman, (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China) - 9. Knowledge as Power: Internationalism, Information, and US Global Ambitions, David Ekbladh, (Tufts University, USA) - 10. American Hegemony, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Rise of Academic International Relations in the US, Inderjeet Parmar, (City, University of London, UK) - 11. Circumventing Imperialism: Latin American Social Sciences and the Making of a Global Order, 1944-1971, Margarita Fajardo, (Sarah Lawrence College, USA) - 12. Western International Theory, 1492-2010: Performing Western Supremacy and Western Imperialism, John M. Hobson, (University of Sheffield, UK) - Index

The opportunities afforded through digital and communications technologies, in particular social media, have inspired a diverse range of interdisciplinary perspectives exploring how such advancements influence the way we live. Rather than positioning technology as existing in a separate space to society more broadly, the 'digital society' is a concept that recognises such technologies as an embedded part of the larger social entity and acknowledges the incorporation of digital technologies, media, and networks in our everyday lives (Lupton 2014), including in crime perpetration, victimisation and justice. In this article, we explore potential for an interdisciplinary concept of digital society to expand and inspire innovative crime and justice scholarship within an emerging field of 'digital criminology'.

2. The gap caused by crimeThe starting point for the person responsible; The starting point for the person harmed; The starting point for the person harmed; Two categories of crime; Two categories of crime; Both are likely to start at the bottom of the empathy scale; Both are likely to start at the bottom of the empathy scale; If no one is caught; If no one is caught; The gap; The gap; Part Two; Empathy Level One: seeing; Part Two. Empathy Level One: seeing; Chapter Three; Entering the criminal justice system; Police investigation; 3. Entering the criminal justice system; Police investigation.