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2. Evolution and development of methodologies in social and behavioural science research in relation to oral health.
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Baker, Sarah R., Heaton, Lisa J., and McGrath, Colman
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EXPERIMENTAL design ,BEHAVIORAL research ,ORAL health ,BEHAVIORAL sciences ,RESEARCH methodology ,SOCIAL sciences ,CONCEPTUAL structures ,MEDICAL research ,CAUSALITY (Physics) - Abstract
The aim of this introductory paper is to provide an overview of key methodological developments in social and behavioural research in oral health. In the first section, we provide a brief historical perspective on research in the field. In the second section, we outline key methodological issues and introduce the seven papers in the theme. Conceptual models can contextualize research findings and address the 'why' and 'how' instead of 'what' and 'how many'. Many models exist, albeit they need to be evaluated (and adapted) for use in oral health research and in specific settings. The increasing availability of big data can facilitate this with data linkage. Through data linkage, it is possible to explore and understand in a broader capacity the array of factors that influence oral health outcomes and how oral health can influences other factors. With advances in statistical approaches, it is feasible to consider casual inferences and to quantify these effects. There is a need for not only individual efforts to embrace causal inference research but also systematic and structural changes in the field to yield substantial results. The value of qualitative research in co‐producing knowledge with and from human participants in addressing 'the how' and 'the why' factors is also key. There have been calls to employ more sophisticated qualitative methods together with mixed methods approaches as ways of helping to address the complex or Wicked Problems in population oral health. In the final section, we outline possible future methodological directions in social and behavioural oral health research including participatory approaches and the development of core outcome sets. Our overriding goal in the paper is to facilitate a critical debate in relation to methodological issues which can be used to improve understanding and generate knowledge in population oral health and that this, in turn, will help inform oral health policy and practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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3. Writing like a Bourdieusian Scholar: From The Craft of Sociology to the Writing Patterns in Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales.
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Boucher, Aurélien
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SOCIOLOGY , *SOCIAL sciences , *REASONING - Abstract
This paper is a debate on why Bourdieusian scholars have never fully embraced the "Introduction/Literature review/Data & methods/Results/Discussion" (ILDRD) article format which is mainstream in North American Sociological publications. This paper attempts to argue that Pierre Bourdieu, Jean‐Claude Chamboredon, and Jean‐Claude Passeron developed a different writing format – inspired by Gaston Bachelard's "applied rationalism" ‐‐ and which became more influential among French scholars. The Bourdieu inspired different writing patterns and reasoning, I argue, can be traced in the flagship journal Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales. This paper invites further debate on the differences in approaching article formats in the social sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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4. The Tree(s) of Hope and Ambition: An arts‐based social science informed, participatory research method to explore children's future hopes, ambitions and support in relation to COVID‐19.
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Williams, Sara, McEwen, Lindsey Jo, Gorell Barnes, Luci, Deave, Toity, Webber, Amanda, Jones, Verity, Fogg‐Rogers, Laura, Gopinath, Deepak, and Hobbs, Laura
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ART ,SOCIAL support ,CHILD care ,MOTIVATION (Psychology) in children ,TIME ,INDIVIDUALITY ,HOPE ,SOCIAL sciences ,ACTION research ,HEALTH care teams ,CHILDREN'S health ,RESEARCH funding ,THEMATIC analysis ,COVID-19 pandemic ,REFLECTION (Philosophy) ,HEALTH planning - Abstract
This paper offers a new child‐centred methodology that explores children's visions of their futures, encourages self‐reflection and depth and shares children's voices with peers and researchers, as unbrokered as possible. This final stage of a longitudinal, arts‐based, social science‐informed project was delivered by partnering with schools in socially disadvantaged areas of Bristol, a UK city. Our two‐phase activity used a Tree metaphor to explore children's hopes, ambitions and support, looking forward to recovery from the COVID‐19 pandemic. The analysis combined multi‐disciplinary thematic and visual‐narrative analysis, and revealed diversity, intersection and individuality in themes that scaled out from the child and their family over different timescales. Themes included emotion (concerns; empathy), experiences (happenings, resources skills; aspirations) and relationships, linked to their recent experiences of COVID‐19 mitigation. The paper reflects critically on children's and researchers' positionality, and the complexities involved in developing research methods that encourage children's autonomy, agency and authenticity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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5. Getting to practical: Complementarity between critical systems thinking and phronetic social science.
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FRUSTRATION ,SYSTEMS theory ,CRITICAL thinking ,SOCIAL sciences ,CONCEPTUAL structures ,SYSTEM analysis - Abstract
Frustration among systems thinking practitioners and academics surfaces from time to time at the apparently limited real‐world influence of systems methodologies and frameworks. Critical systems thinking (CST), in particular, faces many of the challenges common to qualitative research and has the additional challenge that its principal modality is to offer ways of conceptualising. This paper argues that recent explorations of phronetic social science (PSS) provide a useful conceptual frame to discuss and enhance the value of CST. We outline some characteristics of phronetic models and how to conceive and evaluate systemically informed phronetic models. By way of illustration, the paper describes the phronetic framing of two practical tools to support collaborative practice, each built on existing systemic models. Finally, we discuss the potential value of informing PSS with insights drawn from CST, and CST with insights drawn from the emerging field of PSS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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6. Challenges posed by hijacked journals in Scopus.
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Abalkina, Anna
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SERIAL publications , *DOCUMENTATION , *SOCIAL sciences , *BIBLIOGRAPHIC databases , *HEALTH , *HEALTH policy , *PROFESSIONAL peer review , *LIFE sciences , *CITATION analysis , *PUBLISHING , *DECEPTION , *FRAUD , *QUALITY assurance , *MEDICINE , *ABSTRACTING & indexing services , *PHYSICAL sciences - Abstract
This study presents and explains the phenomenon of indexjacking, which involves the systematic infiltration of hijacked journals into international indexing databases, with Scopus being one of the most infiltrated among these databases. Through an analysis of known lists of hijacked journals, the study identified at least 67 hijacked journals that have penetrated Scopus since 2013. Of these, 33 journals indexed unauthorized content in Scopus and 23 compromised the homepage link in the journal's profile, while 11 did both. As of September 2023, 41 hijacked journals are still compromising the data of legitimate journals in Scopus. The presence of hijacked journals in Scopus is a challenge for scientific integrity due to the legitimization of unreliable papers that have not undergone peer review and compromises the quality of the Scopus database. The presence of hijacked journals in Scopus has far‐reaching effects. Papers published in these journals may be cited, and unauthorized content from these journals in Scopus is thus imported into other databases, including ORCID and the WHO COVID‐19 Research Database. This poses a particular challenge for research evaluation in those countries, where cloned versions of approved journals may be used to acquire publications and verifying their authenticity can be difficult. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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7. Towards a social psychology of precarity.
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Coultas, Clare, Reddy, Geetha, and Lukate, Johanna
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INTERDISCIPLINARY research ,PRACTICAL politics ,UNCERTAINTY ,CULTURAL pluralism ,SOCIAL sciences ,HEALTH care teams ,PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation ,SOCIAL psychology ,CONCEPTS ,SOCIAL responsibility - Abstract
This article introduces the special issue 'Towards a Social Psychology of Precarity' that develops an orienting lens for social psychologists' engagement with the concept. As guest editors of the special issue, we provide a thematic overview of how 'precarity' is being conceptualized throughout the social sciences, before distilling the nine contributions to the special issue. In so doing, we trace the ways in which social psychologists are (dis)engaging with the concept of precarity, yet too, explore how precarity constitutes, and is embedded within, the discipline itself. Resisting disciplinary decadence, we collectively explore what a social psychology of precarity could be, and view working with/in precarity as fundamental to addressing broader calls for the social responsiveness of the discipline. The contributing papers, which are methodologically pluralistic and provide rich conceptualisations of precarity, challenge reductionist individualist understandings of suffering and coping and extend social science theorizations on precarity. They also highlight the ways in which social psychology remains complicit in perpetuating different forms of precarity, for both communities and academics. We propose future directions for the social psychological study of precarity through four reflexive questions that we encourage scholars to engage with so that we may both work with/in, and intervene against, 'the precarious'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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8. Adopting the COM‐B model and TDF framework in oral and dental research: A narrative review.
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Buchanan, Heather, Newton, Jonathon Timothy, Baker, Sarah R, and Asimakopoulou, Koula
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ORAL health ,MOTIVATION (Psychology) ,SYSTEMATIC reviews ,PSYCHOLOGY ,CONCEPTUAL structures ,SOCIAL sciences ,HEALTH behavior ,DENTISTRY ,DENTAL research - Abstract
Background: Recent advances in the psychological understanding of health‐related behaviour have focused on producing a comprehensive framework to model such behaviour. The Capability‐Opportunity‐Motivation‐Behaviour (COM‐B) and its associated Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF) allow researchers to classify psychological and behavioural constructs in a consistent and transferable manner across studies. Aim: To identify oral and dental health‐related studies that have used the TDF and/or COM‐B as frameworks to guide research and examine the ways in which these concepts have been practically used in such research. Method: Narrative review of published literature. To be included, the paper had to (1) state that the TDF or COM‐B had been used and to have targeted at least one construct identified in either framework, (2) include primary empirical data, (3) focus on a behaviour directly related to oral or dental‐related health (eg brushing, applying fluoride varnish, flossing) and/or attitudes, intentions and beliefs related to the behaviour. Studies could include any research design, and participants of any age or gender and include patients, parents or dental health professionals. Findings: Nine studies were identified that had drawn on the COM‐B and/or TDF as the framework for their research. Seven of the studies were based on the TDF only, with one employing both the COM‐B and Health Belief Model, and one using the TDF with COM‐B. The nine studies covered a broad range of oral health‐related behaviours including child tooth brushing, fluoride varnish application and non‐ or micro‐invasive management of proximal caries lesions. The populations in the studies included dentists, dental teams and parents of children. All studies adopted only a subset of the constructs within the TDF, often without justification. Conclusions: It is encouraging that oral health researchers are adopting standardized psychological frameworks to develop their research and oral health interventions. Future work should build on the small number of studies identified in this review and consider using standardized tools to do so. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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9. Internationalization and disciplinary differences: Tensions in the academic career in Chilean universities.
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Véliz, Daniela and Marshall, Pìo
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GLOBALIZATION , *EDUCATORS , *SOCIAL sciences , *SEMI-structured interviews , *COLLEGE curriculum - Abstract
This article broadens the knowledge about the experience of academics in relation to how the internationalization of research has changed in a southern country and tensions that have risen depending on the different disciplines. This work resulted from interviews and documentary data collected mainly through semi‐structured interviews with 57 administrators (including University rectors, provosts, vice‐rectors and deans from multiple disciplines) who had been involved in developing the research strategies. Findings suggest that trends between disciplines differ notoriously. Publishing in foreign countries is more likely to happen to academics from hard sciences. Social sciences and humanities' research activities are often performed in books and book chapters. This translates into an initial disadvantage for social sciences in terms of internationalization since the result of their work is often less visible abroad than scientific indexed papers. This difference might be problematic if used as an indicator of academic productivity and recognition without considering disciplinary differences, especially in countries where research capacities and internationalization are still under development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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10. Overcoming Common Anxieties in Knowledge Translation: Advice for Scholarly Issue Advocates.
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KERSHAW, PAUL and ROSSA‐ROCCOR, VERENA
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HEALTH literacy , *POLICY sciences , *SOCIAL sciences , *SOCIAL constructionism , *PROFESSIONAL practice , *GOVERNMENT policy , *LOBBYING , *PRIMARY health care , *HEALTH policy , *CLIMATE change , *DECISION making , *CHANGE theory , *EVIDENCE-based medicine , *HEALTH promotion , *PUBLIC health , *WELL-being , *COALITIONS - Abstract
Policy PointsFaced with urgent threats to human health and well‐being such as climate change, calls among the academic community are getting louder to contribute more effectively to the implementation of the evidence generated by our research into public policy.As interest in knowledge translation (KT) surges, so have a number of anxieties about the field's shortcomings. Our paper is motivated by a call in the literature to render useful advice for those beginning in KT on how to advance impact at a policy level.By integrating knowledge from fields such as political science, moral psychology, and marketing, we suggest that thinking and acting like marketers, lobbyists, movements, and political scientists would help us advance on the quest to bridge the chasm between evidence and policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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11. The association of disciplinary background with the evolution of topics and methods in Library and Information Science research 1995–2015.
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Vakkari, Pertti, Järvelin, Kalervo, and Chang, Yu‐Wei
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PUBLISHING ,STATISTICS ,MEDICINE ,LIBRARY science ,INTERDISCIPLINARY research ,RESEARCH methodology ,CROSS-sectional method ,DATABASE management ,CITATION analysis ,SOCIAL sciences ,ENGINEERING ,INFORMATION science ,INFORMATION retrieval ,CHI-squared test ,SYSTEM analysis ,COMMUNICATION ,CONTENT analysis ,INFORMATION-seeking behavior ,HUMANITIES ,CLUSTER analysis (Statistics) ,AUTHORSHIP ,SCIENCE - Abstract
The paper reports a longitudinal analysis of the topical and methodological development of Library and Information Science (LIS). Its focus is on the effects of researchers' disciplines on these developments. The study extends an earlier cross‐sectional study (Vakkari et al., Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2022a, 73, 1706–1722) by a coordinated dataset representing a content analysis of articles published in 31 scholarly LIS journals in 1995, 2005, and 2015. It is novel in its coverage of authors' disciplines, topical and methodological aspects in a coordinated dataset spanning two decades thus allowing trend analysis. The findings include a shrinking trend in the share of LIS from 67 to 36% while Computer Science, and Business and Economics increase their share from 9 and 6% to 21 and 16%, respectively. The earlier cross‐sectional study (Vakkari et al., Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2022a, 73, 1706–1722) for the year 2015 identified three topical clusters of LIS research, focusing on topical subfields, methodologies, and contributing disciplines. Correspondence analysis confirms their existence already in 1995 and traces their development through the decades. The contributing disciplines infuse their concepts, research questions, and approaches to LIS and may also subsume vital parts of LIS in their own structures of knowledge production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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12. Economic bifurcations in pandemic leadership: Power in abundance or agency amid scarcity?
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Uyheng, Joshua and Montiel, Cristina Jayme
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LEADERSHIP ,LINGUISTICS ,PRACTICAL politics ,WORLD health ,ECONOMICS ,SOCIAL sciences ,RESEARCH funding ,INTERPROFESSIONAL relations ,COVID-19 pandemic ,BEHAVIOR modification - Abstract
Social psychological scholarship has emphasized the importance of effective leadership during the COVID‐19 pandemic. However, the wider material contexts of these dynamics have often remained understudied. Through a critical discursive lens, this paper investigates differences in the social constructions used by leaders of richer and poorer nations during the COVID‐19 pandemic. We identify a sharp economic bifurcation in global discourses of pandemic leadership. Pandemic leadership in wealthier nations exercises power in abundance by mobilizing institutions and inspiring communities through discursive frames of coordination and collaboration. Conversely, pandemic leadership in poorer settings negotiates agency amid scarcity by tactically balancing resources, freedoms and dignity within discursive frames of restriction and recuperation. Implications of these findings are unpacked for understanding leadership especially during an international crisis, highlighting the need for critical sensitivities to wider societal structures for a genuinely global social psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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13. Visual expression of factor decomposition in regression analysis: An example of Japanese housing rents.
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Fukuda, Kosei
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REGRESSION analysis ,HUMAN body composition ,RENT ,HOUSING - Abstract
This paper presents the importance of the visual expression of factor decomposition in regression analysis, which is particularly worthwhile for undergraduate students whose majors are not mathematics but social science. The conventional purpose of regression analysis is to examine specific hypotheses empirically. In particular, the statistical significance of the explanatory variable was tested, which may have been difficult for many students to understand mathematically. To remedy this, factor decomposition is introduced in the same way that human body composition is broken down into water, fat, and muscle. As an illustrative example, multiple regression was applied to the determinants of housing rents in Japan. The explanatory variables were the living area, building age, and walking time from the nearest station. The findings suggest that, with the help of visual expression, a student can easily appreciate which variable significantly affects housing rents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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14. Methods to madness: The utility of complex systems science in a mad, mad world.
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Heaton, Brenda and Baker, Sarah R.
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ORAL health ,RESEARCH methodology ,BEHAVIORAL sciences ,SYSTEMS theory ,SOCIAL network analysis ,ORAL diseases ,SOCIAL sciences ,SYSTEM analysis ,INTERPROFESSIONAL relations ,STATISTICAL models ,POPULATION health ,PATIENT-professional relations ,EPIDEMIOLOGICAL research - Abstract
Existing methods in social [oral] epidemiology primarily utilize statistical models that assume static characteristics of individuals and environments. While useful, an over reliance on these methods in the social and behavioural sciences can unnecessarily limit perspective and progress as even the most advanced statistical methods cannot capture complex behaviour over time given that systems evolve, environments respond, and behaviours and beliefs crystalize or deteriorate based on a variety of social, environmental and access variables. The recent consensus statement on Future Directions for the Behavioral and Social Sciences in Oral Health acknowledges that dental, oral and craniofacial health emerge from the complex interplay of multiple factors at multiple levels over time and highlights the need for the incorporation of new and underutilized methodologies. Complex Systems Science offers a suite of tools and methodologies that are responsive to the generative mechanisms and processes that underlie population distributions of oral health and disease. Specifically, they assume intricate, dynamic interactions between individuals and groups, they facilitate the study and synthesis of interconnections between people (e.g. patients, healthcare providers and policy makers), how these change over time, any differences across settings, and provide an opportunity to guide future longitudinal data collection and intervention science more effectively. This paper aims to provide an introduction to foundational principles of complex systems, complex systems thinking, and methods found in complex systems science, including social network analysis, system dynamics models and agent‐based models, and offers perspectives on the challenges faced and opportunities afforded in the incorporation of these methods into the population oral health sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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15. Conceptualizing inequities and oppression in oral health research.
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Fleming, Eleanor, Bastos, João L., Jamieson, Lisa, Celeste, Roger K., Raskin, Sarah E., Gomaa, Noha, McGrath, Colman, and Tiwari, Tamanna
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HEALTH policy ,HEALTH services accessibility ,ORAL health ,SOCIAL sciences ,INTERSECTIONALITY ,HEALTH equity ,POLICY sciences ,DECISION making in clinical medicine ,MEDICAL research - Abstract
Major sociohistorical processes have profound effects on oral health, with impacts experienced through structural oppression manifested in policies and practices across the lifespan. Structural oppression drives oral health inequities and impacts population‐level oral health. In this global perspective paper, we challenge old assumptions about oral health inequities, address misleading conceptualizations in their description and operation and reframe oral health through the lens of intersecting systems of oppression. Furthermore, we emphasize the need for oral health researchers to explore causal pathways through which oppression harms oral health and engage in social science concepts to understand the root causes of oral health inequities fully. Finally, we call on policymakers, dental scholars and decision makers to consider health equity in all policies and to take a systems‐oriented approach to effectively address oral health inequities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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16. Curriculum as invader: Normalising white place in the Australian curriculum.
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Smith, Bryan
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CURRICULUM , *SOCIAL sciences , *HUMANITIES , *LEARNING ability - Abstract
Curriculum, as a policy and way of moving through educational experience, is entwined with an ongoing history of invasion in Australia and similar invader‐colonial contexts. As a result of this, the conceptual foundations of curriculum in Australia reproduce colonial epistemologies as normative modes of knowing and consideration. One way of seeing how this is possible and easily reproduced is through a consideration of how renderings and representations of "place" – the complex entanglements of lands, histories, and identit(y/ies) – mediate both how (a) invasion can be normalised as a historical, geographic, and political "placial" reality, and (b) students and teachers might experience education in and of place. Indeed, "place" is a central guiding concept in official curriculum policy just as much as place is an experienced curriculum both within the school and in the broader world. In this respect, this paper looks to unpack how the concept of place is represented in curriculum policy and the attendant assumptions and implicit discourses that this (re)produces about the experiences of people in/of invaded place. Through a look at the coming revision to the Humanities and Social Science's learning area of the Australian Curriculum, I look to how the curriculum as policy frames place as synonymous with invader place epistemically and how this mediates what students can know and themselves feel about the embodied experience of learning about/in/of place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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17. Weberian ideal type construction as concept replacement.
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van Riel, Raphael
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WEBERIAN stratification ,ENGINEERING ,SOCIAL sciences ,ABSTRACTION process (Catalysis) ,TECHNOLOGY - Abstract
This paper contains a novel and coherent reading of Weberian ideal type construction, based on recent philosophical approaches to conceptual engineering. This reading makes transparent the dialectics of Weber's approach, resulting in a more nuanced interpretation of his methodological work. It will become apparent that Weber, when introducing his notion of an ideal type, did not merely summarize his views on methodology in the social sciences, but, rather, presented a two‐step argument in favor of these views. The reconstruction will directly bear on issues in the methodology of the social sciences. Weber not only presented a methodology that is, at some level of abstraction, strikingly similar to Carnapian explication (the canonical point of reference in the contemporary debate on conceptual engineering). He also diagnosed, in a systematic fashion, types of problems we face when dealing with ordinary and scientific concepts that play a key role in the description of social reality, and he foreshadowed what is today sometimes described as "debunking" projects. From a philosophy of science perspective, I propose Weber's view (on the reconstruction proposed here) as a serious candidate for an adequate theory of concept replacement in the social sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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18. Are social sciences becoming more interdisciplinary? Evidence from publications 1960–2014.
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Zhou, Hongyu, Guns, Raf, and Engels, Tim C. E.
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KNOWLEDGE management ,INTERDISCIPLINARY research ,SCHOLARLY communication ,SERIAL publications ,ATTITUDE (Psychology) ,REGRESSION analysis ,SOCIAL sciences ,INTELLECT ,RESEARCH funding ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics ,INTERPROFESSIONAL relations ,INTERDISCIPLINARY education - Abstract
Interdisciplinary research is widely recognized as necessary to tackle some of the grand challenges facing humanity. It is generally believed that interdisciplinarity is becoming increasingly prevalent among Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields. However, little is known about the evolution of interdisciplinarity in the Social Sciences. Also, how interdisciplinarity and its various aspects evolve over time has seldom been closely quantified and delineated. This paper answers these questions by capturing the disciplinary diversity of the knowledge base of scientific publications in nine broad Social Sciences fields over 55 years. The analysis considers diversity as a whole and its three distinct aspects, namely variety, balance, and disparity. Ordinary least squares (OLS) regressions are also conducted to investigate whether such change, if any, can be found among research with similar characteristics. We find that learning widely and digging deeply have become one of the norms among researchers in Social Sciences. Fields acting as knowledge exporters or independent domains maintain a relatively stable homogeneity in their knowledge base while the knowledge base of importer disciplines evolves towards greater heterogeneity. However, the increase of interdisciplinarity is substantially smaller when controlling for several author and publication related variables. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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19. The future is humanistic: Infusing compassion in the systems thinking world—Circles, dialogue and RoundTables as levers for individual and community emancipation.
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Jacobs, Marty, Arora, Namrata, and Gabriele, Sue
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ATTITUDES of medical personnel ,COMPASSION ,SOCIAL sciences ,SOCIOECONOMIC factors ,SYSTEM analysis ,EPIDEMICS ,INTERNATIONAL agencies ,CORPORATE culture - Abstract
In this age of isolation, exacerbated by an increased number of natural disasters and their associated impact, we are faced with a deepening poverty of social connections and a high degree of polarisation on multiple counts. Designed for contexts ranging from workplaces to spiritual discourse, more and more instances of intentional conversations are surfacing across the world. It is only when we are able to appreciate the view of 'another', that we are truly able to step beyond the boundary of the self. In this paper, we explore a practitioner's perspective on three formats of gathering that are currently practiced at the International Society for the Systems Sciences. Using social and humanistic values, we outline how these three simple yet powerful techniques embody inclusivity, with the intention of inspiring its readers to consider hosting alternate forms of meetings in academic and organisational settings, thus creating grounds for compassionate understanding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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20. Beyond borders: Achieving research performance breakthrough with academic collaborations.
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Veretennik, Elena and Shakina, Elena
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COOPERATIVE research , *HIGHER education , *ORGANIZATIONAL performance , *STEM education , *SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
Collaborative research papers are widely acknowledged to be more impactful than single‐authored studies in higher education amidst subject area known to alter citation counts. While preceding studies have mostly recognised these two as the antecedents of research impact separately, it needs to be clarified whether the interaction of research area and type of collaboration causes any moderation. Comprehensive knowledge of differences in impact caused by a certain combination of type and area is important because, if citation impact is associated only with a particular combination, the impact‐based research stimulation programs without regard to combination consequences may be cost‐ineffective if not self‐destructing. This study investigates how research collaborations in academia impact the productivity and impact of university faculty. The focus is on the impact variation due to the type of academic collaboration (internal, domestic, international) and the research area. For the empirical test of this study, publicly open data from 1368 faculty in one of the leading Russian higher education institutions—HSE University. Results have two‐fold nature. STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) researchers are more likely to collaborate with domestic co‐authors. This result accentuates the specifics of the academic traditions in the research areas highly recognised for having a long and successful history and worldwide impact on science. The collaborations built on international coauthorship are associated with higher publication visibility rates for researchers from emerging fields in Russia, like those in social sciences and humanities, whereas institutional collaborations are found to be positively related to the share of cited documents. This article sheds light on the differences in academic collaboration mechanisms influencing research productivity and impact in two distinct research areas. It invites revisiting policies stimulating collaborative activities in universities, demonstrating their potentially discrepant consequences. The study's substantial contribution also refers to the use of panel data on personal attributes, research productivity and impact, which is a rare case for research collaboration studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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21. Key topics in social science research on COVID-19: An automated literature analysis.
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Xian Cheng, Ying Zhao, and Stephen Shaoyi Liao
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SERIAL publications , *BIBLIOMETRICS , *ARTIFICIAL intelligence , *MENTAL health , *PUBLIC health , *SOCIAL sciences , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *MENTAL depression , *RESEARCH funding , *THEMATIC analysis , *STAY-at-home orders , *ANXIETY , *MEDICAL research , *COVID-19 pandemic , *LITERATURE , *DATA mining , *PSYCHOLOGICAL stress , *EVALUATION - Abstract
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a significant increase in academic research in the realm of social sciences. As such, there is an increasing need for the scientific community to adopt effective and efficient methods to examine the potential role and contribution of social sciences in the fight against COVID-19. Objectives: This study aims to identify the key topics and explore publishing trends in social science research pertaining to COVID-19 via automated literature analysis. Methods: The automated literature analysis employed utilizes keyword analysis and topic modelling technique, specifically Latent Dirichlet Allocation, to highlight the most relevant research terms, overarching research themes and research trends within the realm of social science research on COVID-19. Results: The focus of research and topics were derived from 9733 full-text academic papers. The bulk of social science research on COVID-19 centres on the following themes: 'Clinical Treatment', 'Epidemic Crisis', 'Mental Influence', 'Impact on Students', 'Lockdown Influence' and 'Impact on Children'. Conclusion: This study adds to our understanding of key topics in social science research on COVID-19. The automated literature analysis presented is particularly useful for librarians and information specialists keen to explore the role and contributions of social science topics in the context of pandemics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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22. Toward a theory of multifunctional liberalism: Systems‐theoretical reflections on the nature of statehood.
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Roth, Steffen and Valentinov, Vladislav
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PRACTICAL politics -- Law & legislation ,HUMAN rights ,SOCIAL change ,SOCIAL theory ,SYSTEMS theory ,SOCIAL sciences ,DECISION making ,REFLECTION (Philosophy) - Abstract
As neoliberalism is sinking into disrepute, states are responding to current crises by inroads on basic rights. This constellation adds urgency to the timeworn subject of statehood and its relationship to law and liberty. The paper addresses this subject by enhancing the neoliberal concept of an encased economy with James Coleman's concept of law as indicator of social change and Niklas Luhmann's functional differentiation. The resulting multifunctional liberalism associates liberties and rights with the autonomy of function systems—such as politics, economy or law—and envisions an ecosystem of multifunctional organizations able to navigate the full spectrum of functional differentiation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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23. Measuring the outcomes for aged care residents' participation in physical activity interventions: A systematic review of randomised controlled trials.
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Wootten, Steven, Wiseman, Nicola, and Harris, Neil
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SOCIAL participation ,ENGLISH language ,SYSTEMATIC reviews ,COGNITION ,HEALTH outcome assessment ,PHYSICAL activity ,PHILOSOPHY of nursing ,SOCIAL sciences ,RESIDENTIAL care ,EXERCISE ,ELDER care - Abstract
Objectives: Lack of physical activity presents substantial health risks to older adults living in residential aged care facilities. The objective of this review was to examine the suitability of physical activity outcome measurement instruments among cognitively sound residents. Methods: Search terms were used to explore health, nursing and social science databases to identify applicable English‐language research from January 2000 to July 2020. Results: Sixteen papers met the inclusion criteria. The findings show that a diverse range of outcome measurement instruments have been used to evaluate physical activity intervention effectiveness. Most were found not to be validated for use specifically with residential aged care populations. Conclusions: A range of Outcome Measurement Instruments (OMI) appear to effectively measure physical activity intervention outcomes among residential aged care older adults. Results highlighted the need for greater rigour in study design and selection of valid and population‐appropriate instruments for use with this population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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24. Using parsed and annotated corpora to analyze parliamentarians' talk in Finland.
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Andrushchenko, Mykola, Sandberg, Kirsi, Turunen, Risto, Marjanen, Jani, Hatavara, Mari, Kurunmäki, Jussi, Nummenmaa, Timo, Hyvärinen, Matti, Teräs, Kari, Peltonen, Jaakko, and Nummenmaa, Jyrki
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SPEECH evaluation ,NATURAL language processing ,SOCIAL sciences ,HUMANITIES - Abstract
We present a search system for grammatically analyzed corpora of Finnish parliamentary records and interviews with former parliamentarians, annotated with metadata of talk structure and involved parliamentarians, and discuss their use through carefully chosen digital humanities case studies. We first introduce the construction, contents, and principles of use of the corpora. Then we discuss the application of the search system and the corpora to study how politicians talk about power, how ideological terms are used in political speech, and how to identify narratives in the data. All case studies stem from questions in the humanities and the social sciences, but rely on the grammatically parsed corpora in both identifying and quantifying passages of interest. Finally, the paper discusses the role of natural language processing methods for questions in the (digital) humanities. It makes the claim that a digital humanities inquiry of parliamentary speech and interviews with politicians cannot only rely on computational humanities modeling, but needs to accommodate a range of perspectives starting with simple searches, quantitative exploration, and ending with modeling. Furthermore, the digital humanities need a more thorough discussion about how the utilization of tools from information science and technologies alter the research questions posed in the humanities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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25. An analysis of Norwegian public health nursing curricula: Where is the nursing literature?
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Laholt, Hilde, Bergvoll, Lise‐Marie, Fjelldal, Sunniva Solhaug, and Clancy, Anne
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CURRICULUM evaluation ,RESEARCH ,MEDICINE ,RESEARCH methodology ,PSYCHOLOGY ,NURSING education ,SOCIAL sciences ,INFORMATION retrieval ,BOOKS ,UNIVERSITIES & colleges ,CONTENT analysis ,HUMANITIES ,COMMUNITY health nursing ,READING - Abstract
Background: Norwegian public health nurses prevent diseases and promote health in children and young people aged 0–20 and their families. Public health nursing programs prepare students for their practical role and provide relevant theoretical knowledge. Objectives: To gain knowledge of the literature in the Norwegian public health nursing curricula, and to examine further the nursing base in these curricula. Design: An explorative and descriptive design was chosen. Sample: Reading lists based on syllabus documents from the 10 higher educational institutions in Norway offering programs in public health nursing. Measurements: A summative content analysis and a categorization of content from reading lists were performed. Results: Numerical information on the content and categorization of reading lists shows that social science and humanities literature dominates, followed by psychology and medicine. Nursing texts, theories and philosophy comprise only a minor part of the curricula. Conclusion: The paper provides valuable data on the theoretical focus in Norwegian public health nursing and raises important questions about the paucity of nursing texts in the curriculum. The imbalance in reading lists in Norway should be studied further and similar studies conducted in other countries to encourage reflection on the theoretical content of public health nursing education globally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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26. Perspectives of choice and control in daily life for people following brain injury: A qualitative systematic review and meta‐synthesis.
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Murray, Carolyn M., Weeks, Scott, van Kessel, Gisela, Guerin, Michelle, Watkins, Emma, Mackintosh, Shylie, Fryer, Caroline, Hillier, Susan, and Stanley, Mandy
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PSYCHOLOGY information storage & retrieval systems ,MEDICAL databases ,CINAHL database ,META-analysis ,STROKE ,SYSTEMATIC reviews ,COGNITION ,QUALITATIVE research ,BRAIN injuries ,EMOTIONS ,MEDLINE - Abstract
Background and Objective: Acquired brain injury (ABI) can result in considerable life changes. Having choice and control over daily life is valued by people following ABI. This meta‐synthesis will analyse and integrate international research exploring perspectives of choice and control in daily life following ABI. Methods: Databases were searched from 1980 to 13 January 2022 for eligible qualitative studies. After duplicates were removed, 22,768 studies were screened by title and abstract, and 241 studies received full‐text assessment with 56 studies included after pearling. Study characteristics and findings were extracted that related to personal perspectives on choice and control by people with an ABI (including author interpretation and quotes). Data from each study were coded and then segments of coded data across the studies were compared to create multiple broad categories. Findings: Findings were then reduced from categories into 3 overarching themes with 12 subthemes. These themes were: (1) feeling like a second‐class citizen; (2) reordering life and (3) choosing a path. Participants with an ABI tussled between their feelings of loss following brain injury and their thinking about how they start to regain control and become agents of their own choices. The themes describe their sense of self, their changed self and their empowered self in relation to 'choice and control'. Conclusions: Re‐engaging with choice and control after ABI is dynamic and can be challenging. Health professionals and supporters need to facilitate a gradual and negotiated return to agency for people following ABI. A sensitive and person‐centred approach is needed that considers the readiness of the person with ABI to reclaim choice and control at each stage of their recovery. Clear service or process indicators that are built on lived experience research are needed to facilitate changes in service delivery that are collaborative and inclusive. Patient or Public Contribution: This review included the voices of 765 people living with ABI and was conducted by a diverse team of allied health professionals with practice knowledge and research experience with people following ABI. Twenty‐nine of the 56 included studies had participants contributing to their design or analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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27. The financial maintenance of social science data archives: Four case studies of long‐term infrastructure work.
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Eschenfelder, Kristin R., Shankar, Kalpana, and Downey, Greg
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BEHAVIORAL research ,SOCIAL sciences ,DATABASE management ,ENDOWMENT of research ,MEMBERSHIP ,BIOINFORMATICS ,INTERPROFESSIONAL relations ,FINANCIAL management ,DATA analytics ,ENDOWMENTS ,ARCHIVES ,DIFFUSION of innovations ,ECONOMICS - Abstract
Contributing to the literature on knowledge infrastructure maintenance, this article describes a historical longitudinal analysis of revenue streams employed by four social science data organizations: the Roper Center for Public Opinion, the Inter‐university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), the UK Data Archive (UKDA), and the LIS Cross‐National Data Center in Luxembourg (LIS). Drawing on archival documentation and interviews, we describe founders' assumptions about revenue, changes to revenue streams over the long term, practices for developing and maintaining revenue streams, the importance of financial support from host organizations, and how the context of each data organization shaped revenue possibilities. We extend conversations about knowledge infrastructure revenue streams by showing the types of change that have occurred over time and how it occurs. We provide examples of the types of flexibility needed for data organizations to remain sustainable over 40–60 years of revenue changes. We distinguish between Type A flexibilities, or development of new products and services, and Type B flexibilities, or continuous smaller adjustments to existing revenue streams. We argue that Type B flexibilities are as important as Type A, although they are easily overlooked. Our results are relevant to knowledge infrastructure managers and stakeholders facing similar revenue challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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28. Value chain interventions for improving women's economic empowerment: A mixed‐methods systematic review and meta‐analysis.
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Malhotra, Suchi Kapoor, Mantri, Swati, Gupta, Neha, Bhandari, Ratika, Armah, Ralph Nii, Alhassan, Hamdiyah, Young, Sarah, White, Howard, Puskur, Ranjitha, Waddington, Hugh Sharma, and Masset, Edoardo
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PSYCHOLOGY of agricultural laborers ,MIDDLE-income countries ,SOCIAL sciences ,ASSETS (Accounting) ,COST control ,SUPPORT groups ,MANAGEMENT styles ,POWER (Social sciences) ,HEALTH services accessibility ,INTELLECT ,SELF-efficacy ,RESEARCH funding ,QUALITATIVE research ,INCOME ,SELF-actualization (Psychology) ,DIVERSITY & inclusion policies ,SCIENTIFIC observation ,MULTIPLE regression analysis ,LEADERSHIP ,LIFE expectancy ,SOCIOECONOMIC factors ,PSYCHOLOGY of women ,META-analysis ,QUANTITATIVE research ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics ,CHI-squared test ,CULTURAL values ,LABOR mobility ,DECISION making ,CONFIDENCE ,SYSTEMATIC reviews ,EXPERIMENTAL design ,THEMATIC analysis ,GENDER inequality ,MEDICAL databases ,RESEARCH methodology ,RESEARCH ,ANALYSIS of variance ,VALUE (Economics) ,PUBLIC welfare ,COMPARATIVE studies ,CONFIDENCE intervals ,DATA analysis software ,SOCIAL marketing ,SOCIAL support ,AGRICULTURE ,PATIENT participation ,LOW-income countries ,PSYCHOLOGY information storage & retrieval systems ,REGRESSION analysis - Abstract
Background: Value chain interventions have become widespread throughout the international development sector over the last 20 years, and there is a need to evaluate their effectiveness in improving women's welfare across multiple dimensions. Agricultural value chains are influenced by socio‐cultural norms and gender dynamics that have an impact on the distribution of resources, benefits, and access to opportunities. While women play a critical role in agriculture, they are generally confined to the least‐valued parts of the value chain with the lowest economic returns, depending on the local, social and institutional contexts. Objectives: The review assesses the effectiveness of approaches, strategies and interventions focused on women's engagement in agricultural value chains that lead to women's economic empowerment in low‐ and middle‐income countries. It explores the contextual barriers and facilitators that determine women's participation in value chains and ultimately impact their effectiveness. Search Methods: We searched completed and on‐going studies from Scopus, Web of Science Core Collection (Social Sciences Citation Index [SSCI], Science Citation Index Expanded [SCI‐EXPANDED], Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Science [CPCI‐S], Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Social Science & Humanities [CPCI‐SSH], and Emerging Sources Citation Index [ESCI]), International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, EconLit, Business Source Premier, APA PsycInfo, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane, Database of Systematic Reviews, CAB Abstracts and Sociological Abstracts. We also searched relevant websites such as Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers (CGIAR); the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); AgriProFocus; the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Donor Committee for Enterprise Development; the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO); the International Labour Organisation (ILO); the Netherlands Development Organisation; USAID; the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation; the International Food Policy Research Institute; World Agroforestry; the International Livestock Research Institute; the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office; the British Library for Development Studies (BLDS); AGRIS; the IMMANA grant database; the 3ie impact evaluation database; Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA); The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J‐PAL); the World Bank IEG evaluations; the USAID Development Data Library; Experience Clearinghouse; the proceedings of the Agriculture, Nutrition and Health Academy conference; the proceedings of the Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) Conference; the proceedings of the North East Universities Development Consortium (NEUDC) Conference; and the World Bank Economic Review. The database search was conducted in March 2022, and the website search was completed in August 2022. Selection Criteria: The review includes value chain interventions evaluating the economic empowerment outcomes. The review includes effectiveness studies (experimental and non‐experimental studies with a comparison group) and process evaluations. Data Collection and Analysis: Two review authors independently assessed studies for inclusion, extracted data, critically appraised the studies, and synthesised findings. Results: We found that value chain interventions are successful in improving the economic conditions of their intended beneficiaries. The interventions were found to improve women's economic outcomes such as income, assets holdings, productivity, and savings, but these effects were small in size and limited by low confidence in methodological quality. The meta‐analysis suggests that this occurs more via the acquisition of skills and improved inputs, rather than through improvement in access to profitable markets. The qualitative evidence on interventions points to the persistence of cultural barriers and other constraints. Those interventions implemented in Sub‐Saharan Africa and South Asia are consistently more successful for all outcomes considered, although there are few studies conducted in other areas of the world. Conclusions: The review concludes that value chain interventions empower women, but perhaps to a lesser extent than expected. Economic empowerment does not immediately translate into empowerment within families and communities. Interventions should either moderate their expectations of empowerment goals, or they should be implemented in a way that ensures higher rates of participation among women and the acquisition of greater decision‐making power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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29. Stance in academic blogs and three‐minute theses.
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Zou, Hang and Hyland, Ken
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COLLEGE teachers , *SOCIAL sciences , *ACADEMIC discourse , *SCHOLARLY publishing , *SCHOLARLY communication - Abstract
This paper reports a cross‐genre study of how academics show authorial stance in two increasingly popular but underexplored academic genres: academic blogs and Three Minute Thesis (3MT) presentations. Based on a corpus of 75 academic blogs and 75 3MT talks from social sciences, we explore how academics represent themselves and their research to non‐specialist audiences in two very different contexts. We found that the 3MT presenters used more stance resources and took stronger positions, largely by indicating certainty and creating a more visible authorial presence. Academic bloggers, on the other hand, preferred to downplay their commitment and highlight affect. The variations are explained in terms of mode and context, especially the time‐constrained and face‐to‐face competitive nature of the spoken genre and the potential for critical feedback in the blogs. The findings demonstrate the salience of stance in the two genres and role of context in academic communication. It has important implications for scholars who are seeking to take their work to new audiences in perhaps unfamiliar genres. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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30. Nursing Inquiry at 30.
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Parker, Judith, Nelson, Sioban, and Thorne, Sally
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SCHOLARLY method ,SERIAL publications ,SOCIAL sciences ,NURSING practice ,HUMANITIES ,NURSING interventions - Abstract
An introduction is presented in which the author discusses articles within the issue on topics including issues relating to everyday nursing, changes in nursing education and practice in Australia, and differences in nursing thought inherent in internationalization.
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31. "Why don't behavior analysts do something?"1 Behavior analysts' historical, present, and potential future actions on sexual and gender minority issues.
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Capriotti, Matthew R. and Donaldson, Jeanne M.
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ETHICS ,HEALTH services accessibility ,CONVERSION therapy ,CONVERSATION ,DEBATE ,BEHAVIOR therapy ,HEALTH status indicators ,PSYCHOLOGY ,SOCIAL sciences ,SEXUAL minorities ,LGBTQ+ people - Abstract
For thousands of years, societies actively practiced the oppression, persecution, and dehumanization of sexual and gender minority (SGM) people (e.g., lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals). Rekers and Lovaas' (1974) study is part of that history within behavior analysis. Following requests for retraction, the Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior and LeBlanc (2020) issued a formal Expression of Concern about the work. Continued conversation and debate have followed. First, we contextualize debate around retraction of Rekers and Lovaas and the history of behavior analysts' work on SGM issues. Second, we propose 5 steps that leaders in behavior analysis can take with relative immediacy, and we describe 5 research areas that individual behavior analysts could pursue. We conclude that behavior analysts can contribute much toward the liberation of SGM individuals if we begin to bring our science to bear on pressing, socially significant issues facing SGM communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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32. Thinking outside of Philosophy: Goethe, Lévi‐Strauss, Propp.
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This paper explores parallels between the morphological thought of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the structuralism of Claude Lévi‐Strauss, and the formalism of Vladimir Propp, with emphasis on the manner in which each of these three thinkers adopts an "epistemological attitude" critical of, and external to, conventional philosophical discourse. The core commonality between them lies in their skepticism about the separability of the ideal from the real, and in the seeking of meaning within the observable constitutive structures of a phenomenon rather than any noumenal essence. The first part of the article examines the way Goethe and Lévi‐Strauss negotiate the relation between abstract thought and concrete observation; the second part turns to the way Lévi‐Strauss and Propp negotiate that question within the context of twentieth‐century social science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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33. Co‐production of health and social science research with vulnerable children and young people: A rapid review.
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Erwin, Jo, Burns, Lorna, Devalia, Urshla, Witton, Robert, Shawe, Jill, Wheat, Hannah, Axford, Nick, Doughty, Janine, Kaddour, Sarah, Nelder, Abigail, Brocklehurst, Paul, Boswell, Skye, and Paisi, Martha
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SOCIAL sciences ,MEDICAL information storage & retrieval systems ,HEALTH status indicators ,RESEARCH funding ,AT-risk people ,CINAHL database ,SYSTEMATIC reviews ,MEDLINE ,MEDICAL research ,PSYCHOLOGY information storage & retrieval systems ,PEOPLE with disabilities ,MEDICAL care costs ,ADOLESCENCE ,CHILDREN - Abstract
Background: The term 'care‐experienced' refers to anyone who is currently in care or has been in care at any stage in their life. A complex interplay of factors leads to care‐experienced children and young people (CECYP) experiencing poorer oral health and access to dental care than their peers. A rapid review of the co‐production of health and social care research with vulnerable children and young people (CYP) was carried out to inform the development of a co‐produced research project exploring the oral health behaviours and access to dental services of CECYP. Here, 'co‐production' refers to the involvement of CYP in the planning or conduct of research with explicit roles in which they generate ideas, evidence and research outputs. Aim: To learn how to meaningfully involve vulnerable CYP in the co‐production of health and social science research. Objectives: To identify: Different approaches to facilitating the engagement of vulnerable CYP in co‐production of health and social science research; different activities carried out in such approaches, challenges to engaging vulnerable CYP in co‐production of health and social science research and ways to overcome them and areas of best practice in relation to research co‐production with vulnerable CYP. Search Strategy: A rapid review of peer‐reviewed articles was conducted in six databases (MEDLINE, Embase, SocINDEX, CINAHL, PsycINFO and Web of Science) and grey literature to identify studies that engaged vulnerable CYP in co‐approaches to health and social research. Main Results: Of 1394 documents identified in the search, 40 were included and analysed. A number of different approaches to co‐production were used in the studies. The CYP was involved in a range of activities, chiefly the development of data collection tools, data collection and dissemination. Individual challenges for CYP and researchers, practical and institutional factors and ethical considerations impacted the success of co‐production. Discussion and Conclusion: Co‐production of health and social science with vulnerable CYP presents challenges to researchers and CYP calling for all to demonstrate reflexivity and awareness of biases, strengths and limitations. Used appropriately and well, co‐production offers benefits to researchers and CYP and can contribute to research that reflects the needs of vulnerable CYP. Adherence to the key principles of inclusion, safeguarding, respect and well‐being facilitates this approach. Patient and Public Contribution: Members of our patient and public involvement and stakeholder groups contributed to the interpretation of the review findings. This manuscript was written together with a young care leaver, Skye Boswell, who is one of the authors. She contributed to the preparation of the manuscript, reviewing the findings and their interpretation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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34. Patterns and purposes in the uses and misuses of the term 'critical thinking' in the social sciences.
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Bregvadze, Tamar and Medjad, Karim
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CRITICAL thinking ,SOCIAL sciences ,CONTENT analysis ,DISCOURSE ,EDITORIAL policies - Abstract
This article analyses the uses and representations of the term "critical thinking" in the social science literature, based on a qualitative content analysis of titles, abstracts and keywords retrieved from the SCOPUS database for Germany, France and Russia over the last two decades. Our analysis focuses on how the use of the term "critical thinking" has increased over time, in which contexts the term is used and in which part of article texts it is used. Our findings are counterintuitive on several levels. First, the term "critical thinking" is seldom used in a pluri‐disciplinary context. More commonly, it is used within specific discourses—notably education. Second, we found that it is mainly used instrumentally, rather than analytically. Third, most of the articles that use the term do not engage in actual critical analysis. There are also important geographic variation in the use of the term. In articles from Germany and Russia the term is used in similar ways—and differently in France. These nuances are difficult to analyse however, due to the different topics addressed, as well as author preferences. The use of the term "critical thinking" is diverse; indeed, at times weak and paradoxical. Finally, we discuss how editorial policy in academic journals possibly influences the discourse on critical thinking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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35. Rewarding academics: Experiences of the Tenure Track System in Pakistan.
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Khan, Tayyeb Ali, Jabeen, Nasira, and Christensen, Tom
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COLLEGE teachers ,PUBLIC universities & colleges ,HIGHER education ,SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
Pakistan introduced the Tenure Track System (TTS) as a new performance‐based reform in public universities in 2005. The purpose of this study is to understand the experiences of higher education authorities, university leaders and tenure‐track faculty about the implementation of this reform. This is a qualitative interpretive study and utilised a nested case study design, focusing on two cases—Science Faculty and Social Sciences and Humanities Faculty in a large provincial university. It utilises three perspectives taken from organisation theory—instrumental, cultural and myth perspectives. The main results show instrumental problems of hierarchical authority and horizontal coordination, lack of expertise to implement, cultural compatibility problems through active resistance from some groups and active use of symbols to modify the impression of a challenging reform implementations. Summing up, this is a Western‐inspired reform that meet challenging conditions in Pakistan, making is rather less successful. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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36. Using machine learning to analyze longitudinal data: A tutorial guide and best‐practice recommendations for social science researchers.
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Sheetal, Abhishek, Jiang, Zhou, and Di Milia, Lee
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HOUSEHOLD supplies ,COMPUTER assisted instruction ,MATHEMATICAL models ,MACHINE learning ,SOCIAL sciences ,INCOME ,QUESTIONNAIRES ,THEORY ,DATA analysis ,ALGORITHMS ,LONGITUDINAL method - Abstract
This article introduces the research community to the power of machine learning over traditional approaches when analyzing longitudinal data. Although traditional approaches work well with small to medium datasets, machine learning models are more appropriate as the available data becomes larger and more complex. Additionally, machine learning methods are ideal for analyzing longitudinal data because they do not make any assumptions about the distribution of the dependent and independent variables or the homogeneity of the underlying population. They can also analyze cases with partial information. In this article, we use the Household, Income, and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey to illustrate the benefits of machine learning. Using a machine learning algorithm, we analyze the relationship between job‐related variables and neuroticism across 13 years of the HILDA survey. We suggest that the results produced by machine learning can be used to generate generalizable rules from the data to augment our theoretical understanding of the domain. With a technical guide, this article offers critical information and best‐practice recommendations that can assist social science researchers in conducting machine learning analysis with longitudinal data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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37. Respecting relational agency in the context of vulnerability: What can research ethics learn from the social sciences?
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Roest, Jennifer, Nkosi, Busisiwe, Seeley, Janet, Molyneux, Sassy, and Kelley, Maureen
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GENDER role ,PSYCHOLOGICAL vulnerability ,FEMINISM ,DEBATE ,SELF-perception ,RESEARCH ethics ,SOCIAL sciences ,EXPERIENCE ,AUTONOMY (Psychology) ,INTERPROFESSIONAL relations ,CASE studies ,RESEARCH funding ,BIOETHICS - Abstract
Despite advances in theory, often driven by feminist ethicists, research ethics struggles in practice to adequately account for and respond to the agency and autonomy of people considered vulnerable in the research context. We argue that shifts within feminist research ethics scholarship to better characterise and respond to autonomy and agency can be bolstered by further grounding in discourses from the social sciences, in work that confirms the complex nature of human agency in contexts of structural and other sources of vulnerability. We discuss some of the core concepts and critiques emerging from the literature on women and children's agency in under‐resourced settings, highlighting calls to move from individualistic to relational models of agency, and to recognise the ambiguous, value‐laden, and heterogeneous nature of the concept. We then draw out what these conceptual shifts might mean for research ethics obligations and guidance, illustrating our analysis using a case vignette based on research ethics work conducted in South Africa. We conclude that if research practices are to be supportive of agency, it will be crucial to scrutinise the moral judgements which underpin accounts of agency, derive more situated definitions of and responses to agency, and enable people and participants to influence these based on their own experiences and self‐perceptions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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38. Abortion Policy in the United States: The New Legal Landscape and Its Threats to Health and Socioeconomic Well‐Being.
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LANTZ, PAULA M., MICHELMORE, KATHERINE, MONIZ, MICHELLE H., MMEJE, OKEOMA, AXINN, WILLIAM G., and SPECTOR‐BAGDADY, KAYTE
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ABORTION laws ,ABORTION in the United States ,HEALTH policy ,MATERNAL health services ,HEALTH services accessibility ,PRACTICAL politics ,PUBLIC health ,PREGNANT women ,RACE ,FAMILY health ,SOCIOECONOMIC factors ,SOCIAL sciences ,CHILDREN'S health ,PUBLIC welfare ,ATTITUDES toward pregnancy ,SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC factors ,WOMEN'S health ,MEDICAL research ,UNPLANNED pregnancy ,EDUCATIONAL attainment ,REFUSAL to treat - Abstract
Policy PointsThe historic 2022 Supreme Court Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization decision has created a new public policy landscape in the United States that will restrict access to legal and safe abortion for a significant proportion of the population.Policies restricting access to abortion bring with them significant threats and harms to health by delaying or denying essential evidence‐based medical care and increasing the risks for adverse maternal and infant outcomes, including death.Restrictive abortion policies will increase the number of children born into and living in poverty, increase the number of families experiencing serious financial instability and hardship, increase racial inequities in socioeconomic security, and put significant additional pressure on under‐resourced social welfare systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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39. Humanizing aquaculture development: Putting social and human concerns at the center of future aquaculture development.
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Brugere, C., Bansal, T., Kruijssen, F., and Williams, M.
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AQUACULTURE ,BUSINESS ethics ,PROCEDURAL justice ,NON-state actors (International relations) ,SOCIAL ethics ,POSE estimation (Computer vision) ,NETWORK governance - Abstract
Compared with other aquaculture issues, attention to human and social dimensions is lagging behind. Sectoral development, policy, and programmatic factors have created inequities and sub‐optimal social outcomes, which are jeopardizing the broader contribution the sector could make to human well‐being. Human rights in aquaculture are at the core of this article, which argues that aquaculture development, as a major economic and food producing sector, needs to be about human development. The article reviews: the application of human rights in aquaculture, and the related right to decent work; the notions of justice and equity including the idea of Blue Justice and its relevance in aquaculture; and ethics and social license to operate with the challenges that business ethics and public acceptance pose to the sector. It also reviews how these issues affect people: women, along with slow progress in gender equality in the sector; youth and their engagement in aquaculture, while noting that 'youth' does not equate to "jobs" and requires the lifting of many more societal hurdles for their full participation in the sector; indigenous people and local ecological knowledge—a precious asset for future aquaculture as well as the survival and enhancement of the cultural value of aquaculture; and people with disabilities and other minorities who have yet to become fully visible and accounted for in aquaculture development. Redressing human and social issues in aquaculture, and placing people at the center of aquaculture development requires a fundamental change from business as usual. To humanize aquaculture development, a renewed human relationship with aquaculture is proposed, which is founded on recognizing substantive equality and agency, embracing intersectionality, that is, the multiple social dimensions of identity and interaction, and valuing cross‐disciplinary knowledge systems. It would be implemented through new, inclusive, business models, social provisioning approaches, and procedural justice and governance mechanisms for overcoming inequalities. Public, private, and non‐state actors will need to be involved, inclusive of small‐scale farmers, women, youth, people with disabilities, and indigenous communities as key groups. Six key messages conclude the article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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40. The birth of the "digital turn" in bioethics?
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Salloch, Sabine and Ursin, Frank
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DATA science ,DIGITAL technology ,ETHICAL decision making ,RESEARCH methodology ,RESEARCH ethics ,SOCIAL sciences ,EMPIRICAL research ,BIOETHICS - Abstract
The so‐called "empirical turn" in bioethics gave rise to extensive theoretical and methodological debates and has significantly shaped the research landscape from two decades ago until the present day. Attentive observers of the evolution of the bioethical research field now notice a new trend towards the inclusion of data science methods for the treatment of ethical research questions. This new research domain of "digital bioethics" encompasses both studies replacing (or complementing) socio‐empirical research on bioethical topics ("empirical digital bioethics") and argumentative approaches towards normative questions in the healthcare domain ("argumentative digital bioethics"). This article draws on insights taken from the debate on the "empirical turn" for sounding out perspectives for the newly developing field of "digital bioethics." We particularly discuss the disciplinary boundaries, chances and challenges, and potentially undesirable developments of the research field. The article closes with concrete suggestions on which debates need to be initiated and which measures need to be taken so that the path forward of "digital bioethics" will be a scientific success. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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41. Harnessing the behavioral and social sciences to promote oral health: Where do we go from here?
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Randall, Cameron L. and McNeil, Daniel W.
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ORAL health ,BEHAVIORAL sciences ,SERIAL publications ,CONFERENCES & conventions ,COMMUNITY health services ,SOCIAL sciences ,DENTISTRY ,HEALTH promotion - Published
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42. Introduction to the special issue: Advancing the behavioural and social sciences to promote oral health.
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McNeil, Daniel W. and Randall, Cameron L.
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ORAL health ,BEHAVIORAL sciences ,SERIAL publications ,EVIDENCE-based dentistry ,SOCIAL factors ,SOCIAL sciences ,DENTAL public health ,COVID-19 pandemic - Published
- 2023
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43. Achieving consensus on priorities for future behavioural and social research into social inequalities—Results of polling attendees at the BEHSR/IADR Summit on Behavioral and Social Oral Health Sciences.
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Newton, Jonathon Tim
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CONSENSUS (Social sciences) ,BEHAVIORAL research ,ORAL health ,SOCIAL sciences ,SOCIOECONOMIC factors ,MEDICAL care research ,SURVEYS ,RESEARCH funding ,HEALTH equity - Abstract
Aim: To explore the priority given by researchers working in the field of behavioural, epidemiological and health services research to key aspects of research in oral health and inequalities. Method: Survey of registrants at the Behavioural Epidemiological and Health Services Research group of the International Association for Dental Research (BEHSR/IADR) Summit October 2020. Findings: The highest ranking for priority was given to 'Testing interventions to reducing oral health inequalities', and within this area to the exploration of public health approaches to reducing such disparities. Lower ranking priorities included 'Describing inequalities within countries' and 'Describing the mechanisms by which inequality produces poor health'. Conclusions: Registrants at the (BEHSR/IADR) Summit October 2020 gave priority to testing interventions which will seek to reduce oral health inequalities, particularly through public health approaches such as creating policy change and community level interventions. Epidemiological research describing inequalities within countries was given a lower priority. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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44. Defining patient's experiential knowledge: Who, what and how patients know. A narrative critical review.
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Halloy, Arnaud, Simon, Emmanuelle, and Hejoaka, Fabienne
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HEALTH policy ,EVALUATION of human services programs ,MEDICAL care ,PUBLIC health ,HEALTH literacy ,SOCIAL sciences ,EXPERIENTIAL learning ,PATIENT education ,HUMANITIES ,MEDICAL research - Abstract
Experiential knowledge is today increasingly valued in health‐care practices, public health policies and health research and education programs. However, despite popular and institutional success, the concept remains loosely defined with the result of weakening its heuristic scope and paving the way for its commodification. In this article, we seek to provide a finer characterisation of patients' experiential knowledge's features and specificities through a critical narrative review of humanities and social science (HSS) literature published in English and French (1976–2021). Inspired by Jovchelovitch's analysis of social knowledge, we seek to highlight the diversity and plurality of forms and articulations of knowledge that characterise experiential knowledge, as well as the gradual, dynamic and entangled process that leads from experience to knowledge and expertise. Our analysis points to the need for future research to adopt a resolutely pragmatic and situated orientation in the study of experiential knowledge and the new figures of the contemporary patient that they help to create. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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45. Quality and constructed knowledge: Truth, paradigms, and the state of the science.
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Grant, Janet and Grant, Leonard
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PROFESSIONAL ethics ,JUDGMENT (Psychology) ,SOCIAL sciences ,PARADIGMS (Social sciences) ,INTELLECT ,QUALITY assurance ,MEDICAL education - Abstract
Context and truth: Education is a social science. Social science knowledge is related to its context of origin. The concept of global 'truth' in education is therefore of limited use when truth is tempered by context. The wider applicability of our knowledge can only be judged if we look at the context in which that knowledge was produced and the assumptions that underpin it. This calls into question the idea that educational research is a quest for global 'truth', although in relation to programme evaluation, truth tied to context is an aim. An analysis is presented of the effects of social construction on research and evaluation processes, on the selection of paradigms, reporting and interpreting findings, and on the ethics of all this. Quality and improvement: Quality improvement is based on information selected, constructed and interpreted by those who gather, analyse or use it. The strength, and not the weakness, of our knowledge is that it is socially constructed, contextual and of its time. Increasingly looking for our own truth about educational quality, and not importing the truth of others, is crucial to the state of the science. In terms of quality development, using others' findings must be based on informed local judgement. In social science, those judgements are linked to social context and their associated ideologies. Implications for future work: The hallmark of social science is not a narrowing of focus and the search for one truth, but is a broadening of concepts, theories, paradigms, reported experience and method, and an intention for each to tell their own truth well. This will lead to a wealth of diverse views and analysed experience. The science of medical education must seek many truths. The authors argue that knowledge being socially constructed, contextual, and of its time is its strength, not a weakness. They encourage our field, as a result, to look for our own truth about quality and its improvement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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46. PROTOCOL: Critical appraisal of methodological quality and reporting items of systematic reviews with meta‐analysis in evidence‐based social science in China: A systematic review.
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Guo, Liping, Zhou, Wenjie, Xing, Xin, Wei, Zhipeng, Yang, Minyan, Ma, Mina, Yang, Kehu, and White, Howard
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PROFESSIONAL practice ,META-analysis ,SYSTEMATIC reviews ,EVIDENCE-based medicine ,SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
This is the protocol for a Campbell systematic review. The objectives are as follows: (1) To evaluate the reporting quality of systematic reviews published in Chinese social science journals against the PRISMA and MOOSE standards; (2) To evaluate the methodology quality of systematic reviews published in Chinese social science journals against the AMSTAR‐2 and DART standards; and (3) To analyze other characteristics of systematic reviews published in Chinese social science journals using content analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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47. Mental Maps of Eastern Europe: States, Mentalities, Modernisation.
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Varga, Mihai
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ECONOMIC underdevelopment ,NATIONALISTS ,SOCIAL sciences ,GEOGRAPHICAL perception - Abstract
Eastern Europe has been the object of orientalising discourses portraying it as a region defined by problematic statehood, underdevelopment, and nationalist‐religious warmongering. These discourses have produced 19th‐century mental maps of Europe contrasting a perceived 'core' European area ending with the Frankish Empire's eastern border and coinciding with later Enlightenment influence and an indistinct 'Orient' or 'East', bypassed by "modernising" processes. This contribution focuses on (post‐)Cold War discourses in social science and shows how these discourses re‐produce 19th‐century layers of orientalising map‐making and keep East‐West differences alive by tracing deficient, fragile or repressive state institutions back to alleged Eastern European 'mentalities'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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48. Disciplinary contributions to research topics and methodology in Library and Information Science—Leading to fragmentation?
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Vakkari, Pertti, Chang, Yu‐Wei, and Järvelin, Kalervo
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RESEARCH ,MEDICINE ,LIBRARY science ,COMPUTERS ,SERIAL publications ,SCHOLARLY communication ,RESEARCH methodology ,QUANTITATIVE research ,COMPUTER science ,ECONOMICS ,SOCIAL sciences ,ENGINEERING ,INFORMATION science ,INFORMATION retrieval ,CHI-squared test ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics ,INTERPROFESSIONAL relations ,BUSINESS ,CONTENT analysis ,INFORMATION-seeking behavior ,HUMANITIES - Abstract
The study analyses contributions to Library and Information Science (LIS) by researchers representing various disciplines. How are such contributions associated with the choice of research topics and methodology? The study employs a quantitative content analysis of articles published in 31 scholarly LIS journals in 2015. Each article is seen as a contribution to LIS by the authors' disciplines, which are inferred from their affiliations. The unit of analysis is the article‐discipline pair. Of the contribution instances, the share of LIS is one third. Computer Science contributes one fifth and Business and Economics one sixth. The latter disciplines dominate the contributions in information retrieval, information seeking, and scientific communication indicating strong influences in LIS. Correspondence analysis reveals three clusters of research, one focusing on traditional LIS with contributions from LIS and Humanities and survey‐type research; another on information retrieval with contributions from Computer Science and experimental research; and the third on scientific communication with contributions from Natural Sciences and Medicine and citation analytic research. The strong differentiation of scholarly contributions in LIS hints to the fragmentation of LIS as a discipline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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49. Reading Ibn Khaldun in the Formative Period of Sociology.
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SOCIOLOGISTS ,SOCIOLOGY ,FORMATIVE Period ,SOCIAL sciences ,HUMANITIES - Abstract
'Abd al‐Rahman Ibn Khaldun (1332‐1406), the founder of the science of society, became known to modern sociologists during the formative period of sociology, that is, the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. There was something of a reception of Ibn Khaldun in Europe at that time by sociologists and other scholars who were not necessarily involved with Islamic or West Asian studies. In fact, the reception of Ibn Khaldun by modern scholars in the West can be differentiated into Eurocentric or Orientalist as opposed to more disciplinary attitudes. While much has been said about the Eurocentric reception of Ibn Khaldun, less is discussed about the disciplinary approach to Ibn Khaldun among thinkers who wrote when the modern science of sociology was emerging in Europe. This special issue on Ibn Khaldun in the Formative Period of Sociology provides English translations of six articles originally written in Italian, French, German, Polish, Spanish and Turkish between 1896 and 1934. Not all of these articles were written by sociologists. Together, they provide some background as to how Ibn Khaldun was conceived of in non‐area studies circles, in the social sciences and humanities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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50. The art and science of the impossible: The human experience.
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SERIAL publications ,SYSTEMS theory ,ECOLOGY ,CONFERENCES & conventions ,SOCIAL sciences ,SYSTEM analysis ,INTERNATIONAL agencies - Abstract
An introduction to articles published within the issue is presented in which the editor discusses topics on the future of humanistic, the role music school as a social ecological system to enhance community connectivity and resilience, and artificial intelligence.
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