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Science of Science and Reflexivity
01 Jan 2004-
TL;DR: Bourdieu's "Science of Science and Reflexivity" as mentioned in this paper argues that science is in danger of becoming a handmaiden to biotechnology, medicine, genetic engineering, and military research that it risks falling under the control of industrial corporations that seek to exploit it for monopolies and profit.
Abstract: Over the last four decades, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory of the postwar era. When he died in 2002, he was considered to be a thinker on a par with Foucault, Barthes, and Lacan a public intellectual as influential to his generation as Sartre was to his. "Science of Science and Reflexivity" will be welcomed as a companion volume to Bourdieu's now seminal "An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology." In this posthumous work, Bourdieu declares that science is in danger of becoming a handmaiden to biotechnology, medicine, genetic engineering, and military research that it risks falling under the control of industrial corporations that seek to exploit it for monopolies and profit. Science thus endangered can become detrimental to mankind. The line between pure and applied science, therefore, must be subjected to intense theoretical scrutiny. Bourdieu's goals in "Science of Science and Reflexivity" are to identify the social conditions in which science develops in order to reclaim its objectivity and to rescue it from relativism and the forces that might exploit it. In the grand tradition of scientific reflections on science, Bourdieu provides a sociological analysis of the discipline as something capable of producing transhistorical truths; he presents an incisive critique of the main currents in the study of science throughout the past half century; and he offers a spirited defense of science against encroaching political and economic forces. A masterful summation of the principles underlying Bourdieu's oeuvre and a memoir of his own scientific journey, "Science of Science and Reflexivity" is a capstone to one of the most important and prodigious careers in the field of sociology."
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TL;DR: Conference abstracts show conservation strategies of academic disciplinary excellence are predicted in biomechanics and neurophysiology, subversion strategies of interdisciplinarity based on professional concerns can appear in the sports medicine and physiology area, and critical strategies of cross-discipline cooperation based on social utility in social sciences and humanities are depicted.
Abstract: s of European College of Sports Science conferences (1995-2014) are studied. The number of abstracts has been increasing regularly (+90 per year). This rise is in recent years largely due to extra-European countries. The magnitude and accumulation of the different topics of discussion are examined. An operational criterion determines four stages of evolution of a topic: social network, cluster, specialty, and discipline. The scientific production can, therefore, be classified as disciplinary or non-disciplinary. The disciplinary part is more important but has been less dynamic recently. The cognitive content of sport science is then explored through a multidimensional scaling of the topics based on the keywords used in the abstracts. Three areas are visible: social sciences and humanities, sports medicine and physiology, and biomechanics and neurophysiology. According to the field theory of Bourdieu ( 1975 ), three scientific habitus are distinguished. The logic of academic disciplinary excellence is the consequence of the autonomy of this scientific field, its closure, peer-review process, and barriers to entry. The distribution of scientific capital and professional capital is unequal across the three areas. Basically, conservation strategies of academic disciplinary excellence are predicted in biomechanics and neurophysiology, subversion strategies of interdisciplinarity based on professional concerns can appear in the sports medicine and physiology area, and critical strategies of interdisciplinarity based on social utility in social sciences and humanities. Moreover, additional tensions within these areas are depicted. Lastly methods based on co-citations of disciplines and boundary objects are proposed to find tangible patterns of multidisciplinarity confirming these strategies.
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...On the one hand, he is required to demonstrate specific skills called scientific habitus by Bourdieu (2004): both theoretical or experimental skills and the unconscious embodiment of this cultural capital generating a practical sense of research....
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...Bourdieu (2004) considers rationality and reality checks as the two components of scientific truth....
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...Moreover, as the field theory is a dynamic one (Bourdieu, 2004), it makes it possible to imagine likely future trends....
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...There is an inferior kind of capital in the scientific field: the temporal capital (Bourdieu, 2004)....
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TL;DR: The term "joint operations" has a particular cachet in the armed forces of the West as mentioned in this paper, and its ubiquity in military language, formations and education from the 1980s onwards suggests that it forms the ba...
Abstract: The term “joint operations” has a particular cachet in the armed forces of the West. Its ubiquity in military language, formations and education from the 1980s onwards suggests that it forms the ba...
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...…as a complementary to existing ones in the literature on military affairs, as it directly targets what makes scholarly produced knowledge distinct from other types of knowledge while taking into account potential interactions between differently produced knowledges (e.g. Bourdieu 2000, 2004)....
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01 Jan 2007
TL;DR: The Industrial Marketing and Purchasing (IMP) Group as discussed by the authors is a network of academic researchers working in the area of business-to-business marketi ng. The group meets every year to discuss and exchange ideas with a conference having been held every year since 1984 (there was no meeting in 1987).
Abstract: The Industrial Marketing and Purchasing (IMP) Group is a network of academic researchers working in the area of business-to-business marketi ng. The group meets every year to discuss and exchange ideas, with a conference having been h ld every year since 1984 (there was no meeting in 1987). In this paper, based upon the pap ers resented at the 22 conferences held to date, we undertake a Social Network Analysis in ord er to examine the degree of co-publishing that has taken place between this group of research rs. We identify the different components in this database, and examine the large main component s in some detail. The egonets of three of the original ‘founding fathers’ are examined in detail, and we draw comparisons as to how their publishing strategies vary. Finally, the paper draw s some more general conclusions as to the insights that SNA can bring to those working within business-to-business marketing.
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...Such academics are not autonomous and self-guiding actors, but work within a social world (Bourdieu, 2004)....
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...The way in which the various authors interact in working to submit such conjoined work is therefore of some importance for the process of knowledge production itself (Bourdieu, 2004)....
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Dissertation•
01 Dec 2006
TL;DR: A deconstructive reading of Nurcholish Madjid's own work on religious reform is presented in this article, which focuses on three major themes: secularization, masyarakat madani (Islamic civil society), and pluralism.
Abstract: A DECONSTRUCTIVE READING OF NURCHOLISH MADJID’S THOUGHT ON RELIGIOUS REFORM by MOHAMMAD HANAFI (Under the Direction of ALAN GODLAS) Nurcholish Madjid (1939-2005) is an icon for reform of Islamic thought. He is the champion of the so-called, Islamic neo-modernism thought. His claim that the universality and transcendency of his thought inclines to negate the understanding of the “other” and puts his own on a higher level. Thus, his religious discourse becomes totalitarian and hegemonic leading to a one dimension understanding. It functions as a rule to justify the legitimacy of the other. Many attempts have been made to overide his authority but they have not shaken it; on the contrary, those criticisms have been considered immature and amature as well. Based on this concern, this study seeks to use Nurcholish’s own work to dethrone his authority from its ivory tower by employing deconstructive criticism because of its assumption that a text is heterograph. This study focuses on Nurcholish’s three major themes: secularization, masyarakat madani (Islamic civil society), and pluralism. INDEX WORDS: Islam, Neomodernism, Nurcholish Madjid, Indonesia, Deconstruction, Logocentrism, Secularization, Masyarakat Madani, Islamic Civil Society, Religious Pluralism. A DECONSTRUCTIVE READING OF NURCHOLISH MADJID’S THOUGHT ON RELIGIOUS REFORM
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Dissertation•
01 Jan 2018
TL;DR: This paper explored the perceptions and influences for regional intensive care nurses from Victoria, Australia as they engage in Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and highlighted the symbolic power of CPD exposing the influences of social culture, habitus and the field in which nurses practice.
Abstract: Current research and evidence into Continuing Professional Development
(CPD) has mostly centred on effective delivery formats to engage consumers.
The perceptions and approaches that influence an individual engaging in CPD
have yet to be explored, particularly in nursing. This qualitative research
grounded in critical social constructionism and critical ethnography explores the
perceptions and influences for regional intensive care nurses from Victoria,
Australia as they engage in CPD. Participants from three field sites participated
in semi-structured interviews. Through interviews the major themes of fear and
vulnerability, isolation, professional inconsistencies and a myriad of concern for
the nursing profession were identified. Threaded throughout each theme was
the social influence of workplace upon nurses’ perceptions and their approaches
toward CPD and the sharing of acquired knowledge amongst colleagues.
The theoretical perspective of Pierre Bourdieu have been used to explore and
discuss the findings of the research through the positions of orthodoxy and
heterodoxy. These two positions allow the reality and the rhetoric of mandatory
CPD for Australian nurses to be revealed, as shared by the participants.
Orthodoxy and heterodoxy bring to light a disconnect between the regulatory
body of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Board (NMBA), and the nurses it
registers. Nurses engage in CPD influenced by peers and often as a means of
protection or a strategic tool to acquire and hold capital and power. The NMBA
mandates CPD for knowledge growth and practice change. The findings reveal
that nurses’ and the NMBA appear to be playing a game creating a state of
illusio, with many nurses looking to mandatory CPD to maintain their
employability rather than, public protection. This research highlights the
symbolic power of CPD exposing the influences of social culture, habitus and
the field in which nurses’ practice.
Recommendations of this research suggest that the current model of CPD is
fundamentally flawed. Significant changes need to be undertaken to achieve the
goal of public protection through a contemporary and knowledgeable workforce.
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...This is commonly motivated by an individual’s need for self-preservation or to improve their own position with respect to defined capital (Bourdieu, 2004; Bourdieu & Wacquant, 1992), which in this research is CPD....
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