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Ethics, Economy and Social Science: Dialogues with Andrew Sayer
No full textThis book is a collection of critical engagements with Andrew Sayer, one of the foremost postdisciplinary thinkers of our times, with responses from Sayer himself.
Sayer’s ground-breaking contributions to the fields of geography, political economy and social theory have reshaped the terms of engagement with issues and debates running from the methodology of social science through to the environment, and industrial development to the ethical dimensions of everyday life. Transatlantic scholars across a wide range of fields explore his work across four main areas: critical realism; moral economy; political economy; and relations between social theory, normativity and class.
This is the first full-length critical assessment of Sayer’s work. It will be of interest to readers in sociology, economics, political economy, social and political philosophy, ethics, social policy, geography and urban studies, from upper-undergraduate levels upwards
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
A multicultural social ethos: tolerance, respect or civility?
No full textAn ethos is something a people or a community shares; according to the OED it is their ‘characteristic spirit’, ‘prevalent tone of sentiment’ or the ‘genius of an institution or system’. So to speak of a ‘common’ or ‘shared’ ethos is, in a sense, pleonastic. If one nevertheless speaks in this way, it is therefore most likely because one is thereby trying either to characterise the people or community in question or to make sense of talk about there being a people or community, rather than many, or both. One reason for doing this is that there might be an existing, identifiable system or institution that unites or applies to a population and that one wants to look for or create further non-institutional commonalities within this population. This is most likely the case in attempts to locate or formulate a common European ethos; in a Europe of common institutions, the question is whether there is something more that binds Europeans together. The political agenda is that there should be; European institutions might work better and the aims they serve might be better achieved if Europeans also form a community in a non-institutional sense – hence the quest for a common European ethos as pursued by agents as diverse as the European Commission and philosophers such as Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida (Habermas and Derrida 2006).An ethos is something a people or a community shares; according to the OED it is their ‘characteristic spirit’, ‘prevalent tone of sentiment’ or the ‘genius of an institution or system’. So to speak of a ‘common’ or ‘shared’ ethos is, in a sense, pleonastic. If one nevertheless speaks in this way, it is therefore most likely because one is thereby trying either to characterise the people or community in question or to make sense of talk about there being a people or community, rather than many, or both. One reason for doing this is that there might be an existing, identifiable system or institution that unites or applies to a population and that one wants to look for or create further non-institutional commonalities within this population. This is most likely the case in attempts to locate or formulate a common European ethos; in a Europe of common institutions, the question is whether there is something more that binds Europeans together. The political agenda is that there should be; European institutions might work better and the aims they serve might be better achieved if Europeans also form a community in a non-institutional sense – hence the quest for a common European ethos as pursued by agents as diverse as the European Commission and philosophers such as Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida (Habermas and Derrida 2006)
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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