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Science Methodology (science + methodology)
Selected AbstractsPublic policy and employment of people with disabilities: exploring new paradigms,BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES & THE LAW, Issue 6 2002Judith A. Cook Ph.D. A "sea change" in public attitudes, legislation, and political power at the end of the 20th century in the United States has helped set the stage in the early 21st century for the entry of people with disabilities into the labor force. Major pieces of federal legislation have altered national policy with the intention of maximizing the work force participation of people with disabilities. At the same time, a new theoretical paradigm of disability has emerged, which emphasizes community inclusion, accommodation, and protection of civil rights. This "New Paradigm" of disability can be applied in concert with rigorous behavioral science methodologies to shed light on the outcomes of recent federal policy changes regarding the labor force participation of people with disabilities. In so doing, social science can be used in more meaningful ways to understand both the intended and unintended consequences of federal policy. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] The spiritual dimensions of psychopolitical validity: the case of the clergy sexual abuse crisisJOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 2 2008Diana L. Jones In this article, the authors explore the spiritual dimensions of psychopolitical validity and use it as a lens to analyze clergy sexual abuse. The psychopolitical approach suggests a comprehensive human science methodology that invites exploration of phenomena such as spirituality and religious experience and the use of methods from a wide variety of disciplines, including philosophy and theology. They report an analysis showing the clergy sexual abuse crisis to be a system with interrelated personal, relational, and social/collective aspects, many of which are in the spiritual domain. The analysis shows how the abuse of power permeates the clergy sexual abuse system and suggests that two interrelated levels of reform must occur: (a) the church must transformatively change its structures to liberate its members to develop spiritually as mature persons,a political task, and (b) consciousness raising is required to help empower people to assume their rightful role in church decision making,a psychological task. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source] Thirty years of spatial econometricsPAPERS IN REGIONAL SCIENCE, Issue 1 2010Luc Anselin Spatial econometrics; spatial analysis; regional modelling Abstract In this paper, I give a personal view on the development of the field of spatial econometrics during the past 30 years. I argue that it has moved from the margins to the mainstream of applied econometrics and social science methodology. I distinguish three broad phases in the development, which I refer to as preconditions, take off and maturity. For each of these phases I describe the main methodological focus and list major contributions. I conclude with some speculations about future directions. Resumen En este artículo, expongo mi opinión personal sobre el avance en el campo de la econometría espacial durante los últimos 30 años. Mi argumento es que ha pasado de estar en la periferia de la econometría espacial y la metodología de ciencias sociales a ser algo corriente. Hago la distinción entre tres fases principales en el avance, a las que denomino precondiciones, arranque y madurez. Para cada una de estas fases describo el objetivo metodológico principal y proporciono un listado con las contribuciones principales. Concluyo con especulaciones sobre posibles direcciones en el futuro. [source] The Future of a Discipline: Considering the ontological/methodological future of the anthropology of consciousness, Part I,ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS, Issue 1 2010Toward a New Kind of Science, its Methods of Inquiry ABSTRACT Calling for an expanded framework of EuroAmerican science's methodology whose perspective acknowledges both quantitative/etic and qualitative/emic orientations is the broad focus of this article. More specifically this article argues that our understanding of shamanic and/or other related states of consciousness has been greatly enhanced through ethnographic methods, yet in their present form these methods fail to provide the means to fully comprehend these states. They fail, or are limited, because this approach is only a "cognitive interpretation" or "metanarrative" of the actual experience and not the experience itself. Consequently this perspective is also limited because the researcher continues to assess his or her data through the lens of their symbolic constructs, thereby preventing them from truly experiencing shamanic and psi/spirit approaches to knowing since the data collection process does not "in and of itself" affect the observer. We, therefore, need expanded ethnographic methods that include within their approaches an understanding of methods and techniques to experientially encounter these states of consciousness,and become transformed by them. Our becoming transformed and then recollecting our ethnoautobiographical experiences is the means toward a new kind of science and its methods of inquiry that this article seeks to encourage. [source] | |||||||||||||