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Social Science Perspective (social + science_perspective)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Humanities and Social Sciences	50%

Selected Abstracts

The New Spirituality from a Social Science Perspective

DIALOG, Issue 4 2001
Stephen Ellingson
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Dementia Studies: A Social Science Perspective

HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE IN THE COMMUNITY, Issue 5 2010
Clive Baldwin
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Adaptive Management and Watersheds: A Social Science Perspective,

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN WATER RESOURCES ASSOCIATION, Issue 1 2008
Catherine Allan
Abstract: Adaptive management is often proposed as the most effective way to manage complex watersheds. However, our experience suggests that social and institutional factors constrain the search for, and integration of, the genuine learning that defines adaptive management. Drawing on our work as social scientists, and on a guided panel discussion at a recent AWRA conference, we suggest that watershed-scale adaptive management must be recognized as a radical departure from established ways of managing natural resources if it is to achieve its promise. Successful implementation will require new ways of thinking about management, new organizational structures and new implementation processes and tools. Adaptive management encourages scrutiny of prevailing social and organizational norms and this is unlikely to occur without a change in the culture of natural resource management and research. Planners and managers require educational, administrative, and political support as they seek to understand and implement adaptive management. Learning and reflection must be valued and rewarded, and fora established where learning through adaptive management can be shared and explored. The creation of new institutions, including educational curricula, organizational policies and practices, and professional norms and beliefs, will require support from within bureaucracies and from politicians. For adaptive management to be effective researchers and managers alike must work together at the watershed-scale to bridge the gaps between theory and practice, and between social and technical understandings of watersheds and the people who occupy and use them. [source]

The lively process of interdisciplinarity

AREA, Issue 4 2009
Henry Buller
Food chain research offers particular opportunities for the development of interdisciplinary problematics and approaches. For example, the issue of ,quality' cannot be interpreted solely from natural or from social science perspectives but rather requires a consilient and interdisciplinary vision. Suggesting a ,ground upwards' approach, building upon transitional objects and networks of practice and drawing upon a recently completed research project involving natural and social science research teams, this paper considers the practice and performance of interdisciplinarity as a lively process of knowledge creation that operates within what Luhmann calls ,forums of articulation' through which epistemologically mobile socio-natural entities are defined and explored. [source]