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The article outlines a methodological concept of political sensibility, building upon the political difference theory. Merging the ideas of the associative and dissociative theoretical branches of political difference literature, first, an integrated framework of the political condition is presented. From this, analytical dimensions are derived, namely, the associative/dissociative, the political/apolitical/discontentious, the static/processual, and the vertical/horizontal dimensions of the political. Second, the interpretive and ontological turns in social science are conceptualized, according to this framework, as a politicization of science. Taking this motion further, third, ideas to enact a politically sensible science are developed along the methodologically turned dimensions (merging the second and the third to an acknowledging/acting dimension). A political sensibility could deliver analytical categories to look upon political phenomena beyond structurally limited conceptions of "politics." Methodologically, it could ease designing situated social science research, that is, research that consciously conceives of itself as part of the social realities it studies.

This article is premised on the idea that were we able to articulate a positive vision of the social scientist's professional ethics, this would enable us to reframe social science research ethics as something internal to the profession. As such, rather than suffering under the imperialism of a research ethics constructed for the purposes of governing biomedical research, social scientists might argue for ethical self-regulation with greater force. I seek to provide the requisite basis for such an 'ethics' by, first, suggesting that the conditions which gave rise to biomedical research ethics are not replicated within the social sciences. Second, I argue that social science research can be considered as the moral equivalent of the 'true professions.' Not only does it have an ultimate end, but it is one that is – or, at least, should be – shared by the state and society as a whole. I then present a reading of confidentiality as a methodological – and not simply ethical – aspect of research, one that offers further support for the view that social scientists should attend to their professional ethics and the internal standards of their disciplines, rather than the contemporary discourse of research ethics that is rooted in the bioethical literature. Finally, and by way of a conclusion, I consider the consequences of the idea that social scientists should adopt a professional ethics and propose that the Clinical Ethics Committee might provide an alternative model for the governance of social science research.

El autor de este articula comenta y critica la idea de « ciencia social islámica ». Primero, estudia la cuestión de una « Ciencia Social Isámica » en el contexto de la llamada en favor de la « indigenización » de las ciencias sociales en los medios académicos del Tercer Mundo. En la segunda y la tercera sección, el autor evalua la « Ciencia Social Islámica » con los casos particulares de la « Ciencia Económica Islámica » y el « Proyecto de Islamizacion del Conocimiento ». Demuestra que el discurso económico islámico queda estructurado por un discurso modernista. Más adelante, el « Proyecto de Islamizacion del Conocimiento » queda poco claro cientificamente, y se le puede acusar de « nativismo ». En la cuarta seccion, se plantea la cuestión entre los valores y las Ciencias Sociales en el Islam. En la quinta sección, se considera a Ibn Khaldun como un ejemplo para la ciencias sociales en el Islam contemporáneo. El ensayo concluye con la affirmacion que la economia islâmica y la ciencia sociale islamizada no son las alternativas que pretenden al discurso modernisto.

This work has two main ambitions. First, we will develop a generic framework which, properly used, can drastically reduce the intrinsic complexity of the continually evolving IT-environment, making it less unwieldy. That should prove advantageous for anyone trying to analyse social aspects of the moving target that is classified as "IT". Using (and at the same time demonstrating) his framework, we will then theoretically study and reformulate one aspect that has been extensively, but not always fruitfully, discussed with specific reference to the emergence of new communications technologies: privacy. Itself an ambiguous concept, privacy will be contemplated from a democratic-theoretical position. The eventual theoretical product will be a privacy subset labelled democratic privacy, which is considered an indispensable ingredient in a liberal-democratic society. Relevant aspects of the concept will be connected to the framework developed in part one to facilitate future analytical efforts. Democratic privacy is intended to be used as a benchmark and an analytical tool in its own right, and this will be demonstrated in a brief empirical study focusing on Swedish integrity legislation.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the social science associations (anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, and history) were faced by a string of academic freedom controversies. I review debates at association meetings and the reports and policy statements of committees on ethics and political discrimination. The ethics committees dealt with the involvement of association members with nonuniversity patrons, in the wake of revelations about Project Camelot. The committees on political discrimination examined allegations that university administrations were discriminating against radical scholars for their advocacy against the war in Vietnam and other revolutionary causes of the time. I argue that in both instances social scientists sought to accommodate the new roles of universities in American society by developing codes of conduct for social scientists that were voluntary and nonenforceable. Implied in the response of social science associations was that threats to academic freedom arose in social scientists' misguided behavior and not by fault of the new institutional setting of the university in the 1960s.

FrontMatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Measurement in the Social Sciences -- 3 Indicators -- 4 Social Science Constructs -- 5 Final Comments -- References -- Appendix A: Workshop Agenda and Participants -- Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members, Workshop Speakers, and Workshop Discussants.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Why tragedy? Why now? -- PART I -- 2. Beyond intentionality: The will, agency, and subjectivity in ancient and classical tragedy -- 3. The tragic individual: Catharsis, the hero, and the flaw in Aristotle and beyond -- 4. Modern tragedy and its subjects: Shakespeare, Freud, and post-Christian metaphysics -- PART II -- 5. The theodicy of suffering: Abjection under capitalism -- 6. From hero to celebrity: Fame, familiarity, and redemptionv -- 7. Tragedy of the commons: Genre and collective agency amidst climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic -- 8. Toward a tragic social science: Responsibility, critique, and thinking diffractively -- Index.

Machine generated contents note: Foreword Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction 2 The Road to Juvie 3 Locked up and Back Again 4 And Now I'm an Adult 5 Dangers and Decisions: Navigating Desistance as a Young Man 6 You Can Run but You Can't Hide 7 Finding a Net to Fall Back On: The Young Women's Journeys 8 Everyday Desistance: Theory Meets Reality 9 Policy and Practice Reforms: Supporting the Pathway to Adulthood -- Appendix Bibliography Index