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This book places at its centre the interwoven questions of what it means to be a doctoral student in the social sciences, what is involved in becoming and being a researcher and clearly shows how the role of the supervisor is key to the student's personal development

This essay introduces a special collection on the state, potential, and tensions of the social sciences in Latin America. It briefly reflects on the historic role that these disciplines have exerted in society, policy, and culture, their troubled trajectory –– which included episodes of rapid expansion and significant retreatment (if not ostracism) ––, and their current situation in terms of institutional development and research agendas. It also elaborates on how Latin American social scientists have dealt with the difficulties (but also potentials) of studying social structures from a peripheral global region and how they have dealt with the classic tension between involvement and detachment. Against this backdrop, this special collection includes a series of papers exploring how certain topics of especial importance in Latin America –– i.e. development and world economy; state capacity, public administration, and political legitimacy; and violence, conflict, and social cohesion –– have been studied. It also features a group of papers examining some of the main recent institutional and intellectual trends within local social sciences: academic professionalization vis-a-vis activism, the expansion of teaching in the under and graduate levels and its effects on disciplinary borders, the "parochialism" (vs. cosmopolitanism) in publishing and research topics, as well as the potentials and risks of the adoption of open science as recently encouraged by UNESCO. While it would be pointless to attempt to provide a detailed portray of a much-diversified reality, the variety of topics addressed by the papers, as much as the different approaches guiding each contribution ––which range from detached descriptions to normative policy-oriented (and well-informed) essays, from "distant reading" based on bigdata to rich sociohistorical reconstruction––, try to convey some of Latin American social sciences' vitality and diverse interests.

Resume Que peuvent faire les sciences sociales avec le machine learning , et que peut-il leur faire ? Cet article propose une introduction à cette classe de méthodes statistiques. Il détaille ses prémisses, sa logique, et les défis qu'elle pose pour les sciences (sociales). Il le fait au moyen d'une comparaison avec d'autres approches quantitative plus conventionnelles, les régressions paramétriques en premier lieu, et ce tant au niveau général qu'en pratique. Au-delà de l'exercice méthodologique, l'article se propose de revenir sur les débats houleux qui entourent le learning . Il revient pour se faire sur le rôle et les conséquences possibles de l'usage de l'apprentissage statistique. Il soutient que la révolution promise par beaucoup et crainte par d'autres ne se produira pas de sitôt, ou en tout cas pas dans les termes souvent mentionnés. Le changement de paradigme évoqué de manière prophétique n'aura pas lieu. Plutôt, une concurrence accrue entre différentes formes de quantification du monde social va se mettre en place. Contre toute attente, cette incertitude croissante pourrait être de bon augure pour la connaissance en général.

Science controversies encounter political opportunities -- Research method and data -- Science controversies in transitional China -- Hydropower, fragmentation, and knowledge making -- GMO controversy : how orthodox science lost control -- Nuclear power debate in a narrow political opportunity structure -- Why are science controversies so different -- Synergy of different theoretical traditions in a comparative lens.

I argue that although in "The Gender/Science System," Keller intends to formulate a middle ground position in order to open science to feminist criticisms without forcing it into relativism, she steps back into objectivism. While she endorses the dynamic-object model for science, she endorses the static-object model for philosophy of science. I suggest that by modeling her methodology for philosophy on her methodology for science her philosophy would better serve her feminist goals.

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The complex relationship between globalization and health calls for research from many disciplinary and methodological perspectives. This editorial gives an overview of the content trajectory of the interdisciplinary journal 'Globalization and Health' over the first six years of production, 2005 to 2010. The findings show that bio-medical and population health perspectives have been dominant but that social science perspectives have become more evident in recent years. The types of paper published have also changed, with a growing proportion of empirical studies. A special issue on 'Health systems, health economies and globalization: social science perspectives' is introduced, a collection of contributions written from the vantage points of economics, political science, psychology, sociology, business studies, social policy and research policy. The papers concern a range of issues pertaining to the globalization of healthcare markets and governance and regulation issues. They highlight the important contribution that can be made by the social sciences to this field, and also the practical and methodological challenges implicit in the study of globalization and health.