http://thesocialsciences.com Just another CommonGroundPublishing weblog Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:51:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From Don Peck in The Atlantic HOW SHOULD WE characterize the economic period we have now entered? After nearly two brutal years, the Great Recession appears to be over, at least technically. Yet a return to normalcy seems far off. By some measures, each recession since the 1980s has retreated more ... http://thesocialsciences.com/2010/02/26/how-a-new-jobless-era-will-transform-america/ The latest issue, Volume 4, Number 11, of  The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences includes: Training Adults’ Trainers in Greece: “Efforts for Innovation” by Constantinos Tsamadias, Konstantina Koutrouba and Maria Theodosopoulou. Space, Process Philosophy and Mental Distress by Ian Tucker. University and Regional Development: The Case of the School of Humanities, University of the Aegean ... http://thesocialsciences.com/2010/02/11/latest-social-sciences-journal-papers/ Energy Cultures brings together a multi-disciplinary team of researchers in a 3 year project on household energy behaviours based at Otago University, New Zealand.    The ‘Energy Cultures’ research programme applies a novel combination of complementary social science methods to improve understanding of the drivers of household energy behaviours, and to ... http://thesocialsciences.com/2010/02/10/the-energy-cultures-team-to-speak-in-cambridge/ From The Immanent Flame, EM: Over the last couple of years you have been working on the question of religion from a series of perspectives: philosophical, political, sociological, moral, and cognitive. In your Yale lectures from the fall of 2008, you approached the challenge of the vitality and renewal of religion ... http://thesocialsciences.com/2010/02/08/rethinking-secularism-a-postsecular-world-society-an-interview-with-jurgen-habermas/ The most recent issue, Volume 4, Number 11, of  The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences includes: Realist Evaluation of Social Services: What Works and in What Circumstances by Mansoor Abul Fazl Kazi. Measuring Technical Efficiency and Profitability: A Case Study of the Malaysian Commercial Banking System by Nur Azura Sanusi, Roshanim Koris and Suriyani ... http://thesocialsciences.com/2010/02/08/recently-published-in-the-social-sciences-journal-4/ The eleventh issue of Volume 4 of The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences has been published. Volume 4, Number 11 includes: Modern Analysis of Bike Sharing Feasibility by Sofia Vidalis, Fazil Najafi, Dain Chernick, James Jackson, James Parker and Scott Ryland. Cross-Cultural Communication: Taiwanese University Students’ Understanding of Symbols in the Wonderful ... http://thesocialsciences.com/2010/02/02/social-sciences-journal-volume-4-number-11-now-available/ Congratulations to Sean M. Clark, the winner of the International Award for Excellence in the area of interdisciplinary social sciences for his paper Revealing Clio’s Secrets: The Case for Historical Macromeasurement Abstract: An excessive focus on methodological training and recent case studies has left political scientists woefully ignorant of work done by scholars in other ... http://thesocialsciences.com/2010/01/27/announcing-the-winner-of-the-international-award-for-excellence/ From Austin Dacey, Skeptical Inquirer Just as soon as anyone notes the dismal state of science in contemporary Muslim-majority countries, someone else with a little knowledge of history will observe that the Islamic world was once the center of the scientific world, and Arabic was once the lingua franca. From the ... http://thesocialsciences.com/2010/01/26/the-decline-of-the-decline-of-arabic-science/ Congratulations to all of the Award Winner finalists: Maria Chong Abdullah, Habibah Elias, Rahil Mahyuddin and Jegak Uli: The Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Adjustment Amongst First Year Students in a Malaysian Public University Helen Joanna Boon, Stephen Tobias, Bernhard T. Baune, Tarun Sen Gupta and Lee Kennedy: Ars Cooperativa Naturae. Ethical Contingencies Across Medicine and ... http://thesocialsciences.com/2010/01/21/finalists-for-the-international-award-for-excellence/ From Russell Blackford, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Evolution and Technology: In issue 20(1) of The Journal of Evolution and Technology, we published “Nietzsche, the Overhuman, and Transhumanism” by Stefan Lorenz Sorgner (March 2009). In this intriguing article, Sorgner argues that there aresignificant similarities between the concept of the posthuman (as typically deployed in transhumanist thought) and ... http://thesocialsciences.com/2010/01/18/editorial-nietzsche-and-european-posthumanisms/