Kvantofrenija - naučnik u brojkama i brojke u nauci: O fenomenu kvantofrenije i njenim praktičnim implikacijama u društvenim i humanističkim naukama: zbornik radova sa Okruglog stola održanog 30. novembra 2023. godine u Matici srpskoj (urednici prof. dr Mihael Antolović i prof. dr Srđan Šljukić). Novi Sad: Matica srpska, 2024

The second course book deals with the basic knowledge of evaluation theories and methodology, particularly in the framework of higher education institutions. Furthermore, the course book deals with empirical social science research methodology as a tool for effective quality assurance. Core elements are the precise conception and systematic conduction of qualitative and quantitative data collection as well as data analysis and interpretation for evaluation purposes.

The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America • Karl Popper—The Formative Years, 1902–1945: Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna

Books on Utopia Published in Italy in 2016 and During the First Semester of 2017

Most of our knowledge is acquired by discourse, and our ability to produce and understand discourse is impossible without the activation of massive amounts of knowledge of the world. Both 'discourse' and 'knowledge' are fundamental concepts of the humanities and social sciences, but they are often treated separately. Based on a theory of natural knowledge, the book deals with the cognitive processes, social distribution, cultural differences and the linguistic and discursive 'management' of knowledge in interaction and communication in epistemic communities. The first book to adopt a multidisciplinary approach to studying the relationship between the two concepts, Discourse and Knowledge introduces the new field of epistemic discourse analysis. Using a wide range of examples to illustrate the theory, it is essential reading for both students and academics interested in epistemology, linguistics, discourse analysis, cognitive and social psychology and the social sciences.

The recent proliferation of studies on terrorism has brought scholars from different fields and approaches to converge on this phenomenon. As a result, economists, social and political scientists have developed theories, evidence and, in a sense, even a peculiar jargon of their own. Starting from this assumption, the book aims to bring scholars with different expertise and background around the same table, showing how their individual perspectives can contribute to a broader understanding of the issue at stake. In other words, the aim that inspires the book is that the multi-disciplinary nature of terrorism requires a concerted effort by social sciences - in particular, economics and political science. The book deals with a number of issues - from the definition and forms of terrorism, to its economic determinants, from the distribution and forecast of terror attacks to the measurement of their impact on societies.

This book is designed to help students with the problems they face in their academic writing. Beginning with the premise that successful writing in the arts and social sciences goes hand in hand with understanding the subject-matter and finding out what to do with it, the book deals with the tasks that confront students as they think about a problem and explore possible answers. Using concrete examples from a variety of disciplines, the author demonstrates an interesting approach to different sorts of task: reading, taking notes, interpreting and analysing. He moves on to show how the parts of an academic essay are developed and structured, and how to make effective use of language as an academic medium. This is a book that students will want to read through and refer back to. The practical knowledge required in writing a good academic essay is never underestimated, but Gordon Taylor's advice is always very clearly presented and very much to the point. At the same time it is refreshingly thorough, and the detailed illustrations he provides come from long experience in teaching students the art of writing.

Transgression as a Rule: German-Polish Cross-border Cooperation, Border Discourse and EU Enlargement by Ulrich Best

Weber's methodology is untenable insofar as it depends on Heinrich Rickert's thought. Methodology is of particular importance in the question of objectivity in the social sciences, the central question of the scholarly discipline, so claims Guy Oakes, professor of philosophy at Monmouth College. In 1988, he presented a brief, yet important monograph after years of analysis and writ? ing on the topic. Oakes represents the viewpoint that in the well-known studies of civiliza? tion and society, Weber lacks a sufficient and consistent methodology. To a great extent (according to Oakes), Weber developed his philosophy on the basis of Rickert's unsolved contradictions. Because of this, Oakes suggests suspend? ing further study until Rickert's solutions to objectivity in the social sciences have been fully investigated. This, however, is only reasonable if it is deter? mined that Weber's own solutions are logically dependent on Rickert's ideas about objectivity. It would then follow that Rickert's errors would imply that similar errors were made in Weber's social commentary. In this monograph, "Weber and Rickert: Concept Formation in the Cultural Sciences," Guy Oakes' goal is to find proof for just such a dependency. Oakes begins with this forceful thesis, whose foundation would have great relevance for further discussion on Weber. He undertakes a taxing and binding study, the success of which can be gauged by whether and how well he demonstrates a logical dependency between the two thinkers. In its introduction, conclusion and first chapter, the book deals with Weber, and in chapters two through four with Rickert. The logic is clear and characteristic of analytic philosophy, which presses toward theses, arguments, and proofs. Like that of other discussions on Weber, Oakes's introduction requires that one understand Rickert's philosophy in an effort to grasp Weber's methodology; yet it does not require that one have systematically checked the Correctness' of Weberian ideas, as dependent on those of Rickert. Oakes makes

This book deals with a broad range of social issues facing Mexican-origin people in the United States. The studies presented in this volume are brought together by two main themes: (1) social inequalities-cultural, educational, and economic-endured by the Chicano/Mexicano community in the United States and (2) the community's efforts to eradicate the source of those inequalities. The second edition of Chicanas and Chicanos in Contemporary Society takes into consideration the most recent demographic changes affecting the Chicano/Mexicano people. With one-third of persons of Mexican descent under the age of fifteen, many of the challenges center on the current well-being of children and their future prospects. Unlike any other book in the market, several chapters closely examine issues related to children and youth, with particular attention given to children's ethnic identity, schooling practices, and educational policies. Two additional features set this book apart from other books. First, it includes new chapters focused on Chicana/Mexicana mothers, including adolescent mothers, interactions with their children and their efforts to reform schools. Second, it has contributions that analyze relations between Mexican immigrants and their coethnics born in the United States. The studies offered in this volume employ multiple theoretical perspectives and research methods. The studies invoke theories from social science disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, and psychology. Contributors use a variety of analytical strategies, including ethnographic methods and quantitative analysis.

In this provocative book, Christina Lee takes a consciously critical approach to the apparently unchallenged principle that conscious thought is the cause of all human behavior. Without becoming polemical or destructive, she reconsiders a wide range of issues in mainstream American and European social psychology. Suitable for an international audience, the book deals with issues in mainstream American and European social psychology. It assumes some familiarity with contemporary social and applied psychology, and would be appropriate as a text or supplementary reading for senior undergraduate and postgraduate courses in social psychology and psychological theory, although it is also written with an academic research audience in mind. While it is written largely for psychologists, it would also be of interest to academics from other social-science disciplines with a general interest in explanations of individual social behavior.

Reviewed by: Fighting Means Killing: Civil War Soldiers and the Nature of Combat by Jonathan M. Steplyk Earl J. Hess Fighting Means Killing: Civil War Soldiers and the Nature of Combat. Jonathan M. Steplyk. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2018. ISBN 978-0-7006-2628-1, 336 pp., cloth, $29.95. Civil War soldiers worried a good deal about being targets of enemy fire in battle, but we tend to ignore that at least some of them were also concerned about their roles as killers. Jonathan M. Steplyk deserves credit for bringing this idea to our attention. He is not the first; several other Civil War historians have touched on the topic within the context of books on other subjects. But Steplyk is the first to write a dedicated study of killing in the Civil War. He was inspired by Dave Grossman’s On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning How to Kill in War and Society (New York: Back Bay Books, 2009). Steplyk set out to write a “killogy” of the Civil War. At heart, his book deals with Civil War soldiers and “explores their attitudes to and experiences of killing in combat.” A key component of his work is to “document the spectrum of these attitudes and experiences as recorded by the soldiers” (6). Steplyk concludes that the great majority of Federals and Confederates “positively affirmed and accepted killing the enemy as part of their military duty and a necessity” (7). But he also finds that “a significant minority harbored doubts about or outright objected to killing in war.” (Even so most of the men who doubted the morality of killing even in wartime “tended to fight just as purposefully” despite their ambivalence [7].) Generally seeing no difference between Union and Confederate soldiers, Steplyk nevertheless points out that the latter often cited defense of their homes and their hatred of seeing blacks in blue uniform as motivations for embracing the role of killer on the battlefield. Steplyk identifies ideology, religion, the gun culture of pre–Civil War America, and other influences as context to understand why most law-abiding citizens willingly learned how to kill. He recognizes that some soldiers easily adapted to the role of killer while others had a good deal of trouble, viewing the matter as a spectrum rather than a cut-and-dried concept. Steplyk was greatly influenced by Grossman’s book, even though, as he notes, Grossman paid little attention to the Civil War, focusing mostly on twentieth-century wars. More importantly, Steplyk states that many of Grossman’s conclusions about the Civil War are erroneous. This book is significant because it introduces an important topic in Civil War [End Page 103] soldier studies, one that needed to be brought into the discussion about the combat experience of the war. But it has many limitations, the most important of which is that it rests too much on the surface and on the periphery of the topic. Several chapters are devoted to killing’s context without focusing on its psychology. For example, when Steplyk writes about hand-to-hand combat, or the presence of black troops on the battlefield, or informal truces, he simply writes about those topics rather than reminding the reader that his objective is to discuss the act of killing within these subjects. In short, context tends to dominate this book and overwhelm the central subject. One finishes his book feeling as if the heart of the topic has not been reached. The idea of a “killogy” has wonderful potential for connecting with a range of other topics in Civil War studies, including the culture of death, the range at which combat normally took place, and Civil War memory, to name a few. While Steplyk often touches on these other themes, he does not fully explore the connections between them and his central subject. Most importantly, the subject of killing in war cries out for interdisciplinary research; the academic literature in psychology and social science would have something to say about it. I do not think the historian has all the concepts or training necessary to do the subject justice. Hopefully, someone will build on Steplyk’s work and try to...

THIS book deals with certain branches of the chemistry of foods which have particular interest to students working for the B.Sc. (Household and Social Science) degree of the University of London. It forms a companion volume to that produced by the same authors in 1920 on water, detergents, textiles, fuels, etc. The general treatment is elementary, but the authors have adopted the policy of giving references to standard works wherever possible. In addition to such subjects as milk, edible oils, foods their analysis and calorific value, raising agents, vinegar and preservatives (subjects which are found generally in food analysis books), a separate chapter on the cooking of foods is included. In introducing this somewhat novel subject in an elementary text-book, it is explained that this operation is still primarily an art and not a science, and that our knowledge of the chemistry and physical changes which take place in the preparation and cooking of foods is at present very meagre. Nevertheless, the authors in some thirty-five pages have collected a large amount of scientific data on cooking foods and on the use of condiments, and have given an exceptionally good exposition of the subject. Applied Chemistry: a Practical Handbook for Students of Household Science and Public Health. By Prof. C. Kenneth Tinkler Helen Masters. Vol. 2: Foods. Pp. xi + 276 + 3 plates. (London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1925.) 15s. net.

This book deals with the transformations or “transitions” that countries of Central and Eastern Europe have undergone since the political upheavals and breakdowns of 1989. To explore that abundant set of varied and complex processes it has adopted a particular point of view consisting in questioning also the way in which social sciences have approached these transformations, have interpreted them and how, in return, they have felt their impact and had to modify their questions and their modes of explanation.KeywordsMarket EconomyPath DependenceSocial SphereAuthoritarian RuleHistorical TrajectoryThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book deals with key theoretical principles and challenges that underpin the social sciences perspective. It examines the role of social sciences theoretical frameworks for potential use in global public health. The book explores the concept of globalisation and ‘wellbeing’, arguing for a less foundationalist and structuralist approach to globalization. It examines alternatives to classical liberal approaches to health economics. The book explores the theoretical and empirical implications of applying ethics frameworks to global public health. It focuses on designing, implementing, and evaluating global public health interventions, with an emphasis on maternal health. The focuses is on health protection and a global approach to neglected communicable diseases (NCDs) by Maria Jacirema Ferreira Goncalves and Amanda Rodrigues Amorim Adegboye.

Editor-in-Chief Max J Skidmore announces Westphalia Press books, and again announces a forthcoming work: an anticipated special issue of the journal, with the theme of childhood poverty in the Middle East. He also describes this current issue, Volume 10, Issue 2, of Poverty and Public Policy, the second quarterly issue of 2018, the tenth-anniversary year of the journal's publication. I am pleased again to announce to readers the publication of a PSO book from Westphalia Press, Unworkable Conservatism (2017). I am the author, and the book deals with the principles American conservatives and libertarians espouse, the difficulties of implementing those policies based on those principles, and the unsatisfactory effects those principles have on policy in the rare instances when they are implemented. Also, it is my pleasure to announce the recent publication of another Westphalia Press book, Donald J. Trump's Presidency. This book presents original essays by scholars from around the world, each from a different country. Every author presents a different perspective on the Trump administration in the United States. This volume is co-edited by Dr. John Dixon, and by me. Dr. Dixon is familiar to readers of Poverty and Public Policy, both as a contributor, and as Board member/Editor-at-Large. This is another example of the vigor of Westphalia Press, the publishing arm of the Policy Studies Organization. I also remind readers to watch for a forthcoming special issue of Poverty and Public Policy on the subject of “Child Poverty and Youth Unemployment in the Middle-East.” Dr. Dixon will be the Special Editor for that issue, which will appear later in 2018. This current issue of Poverty and Public Policy, volume 10, issue 2, is the second issue of our tenth anniversary year. The lead article is “Child Support and Income Inequality,” by Yoonsook Ha of the School of Social Work, Boston University; and Daniel R. Meyer and Maria Cancian, both of the School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin-Madison. This article, by presenting vital information that should be taken into consideration in implementing new child support regulations that were made final by the U.S. Government in 2016, makes a substantial contribution to the literature. Next, comes “Understanding the Implications of a Punitive Approach to Homelessness: A Local Case Study.” This is another highly significant article, and it comes from Jennifer Wilking, Susan Roll, David Philhour, Peter Hansen, and Holly Nevarez all of whom are from California State University-Chico. They study the efforts by Chico, California, to implement public safety policies and to respond to concerns from local residents by adopting ordinances forbidding sitting or lying in commercial districts and other public spaces. They document the effects of the ordinances, which significantly increase arrests of the homeless, spread enforcement away from the downtown area, and raise costs far above figures released by the city's police. Shifting our attention away from the United States to Europe, we offer “The Origins of the ‘Cause of the Poor’: Logics of Appropriation of a ‘New Social Problem’ in Spain (1960–1990),” by Joan Cortinas of the University of Arizona. Her study defends the idea that new social policies are preceded by a process of requalification incorporating new categories. She finds that the transformations have transnational implications, and affect countries with different welfare state regimes. Next, comes a section consisting of papers given last Autumn in San Francisco at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. These come from the panel sponsored by APSA's Caucus on Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy (sponsored both by the APSA and the Policy Studies Organization), on the overall theme “Speaking Truth to Power,” considering whether political science in the United States remains relevant. Special Section Speaking Truth to Power Papers from the Special Panel, APSA Caucus on Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy APSA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, September 2017 Political scientists devote great energy toward forecasting, but rarely deal with the content of policy, thus failing to consider “speaking truth to power.” [NOTE: The Policy Studies Organization published the conference version of this paper as “Speaking Truth to Power: Has Political Science Become Irrelevant to Policy?” Proceedings of the Policy Studies Organization, New Series, No. 32 (October, 2017)]; the PSO gives permission to publish here. Political science research reflects the trend toward mathematization that has become increasingly dominant in the social sciences. Unfortunately, complex mathematical models do not reflect reality and have little relevance to public political discourse. Moreover, much of the quantification in political science research of fraught with fallacies. The author identifies numerous instances of misuse of statistics by prominent social scientists, especially with regard to criminal behavior. The last several decades have seen the rise of neoliberalism in political science, leading to six major changes. These include: the rise of scholarly “objectivity” as a means of deterring critical analysis; the decline of public intellectualism and publicly accessible studies; the marginalization of practically relevant research; the decline of methodological pluralism; the aversion to political philosophy and political theory; and the devaluation of teaching in favor of research. Political science is in decline because it has become too focused on methodological precision, has lost contact with public policy, and recruits only among academics. To become more vital and relevant, it must use a wider range of methods, recover a voice on policy issues, and expect much more government experience from its recruits. [NOTE: an earlier version of this article appeared in German, in Indes. Professor Mead received the following permission: Dear Professor Mead, Dr. Micus, the chief editor of Indes, has asked me to inform you that you have our permission to republish your article. Best wishes, Danny Michelsen Book Reviews— We have no book reviews in this issue. As always, however, we stress that reviews of relevant books are vital to the scholarly process. Thus, we continue to seek thoughtful reviews of such books, and we invite those who are interested in becoming reviewers to communicate with our Book Review Editor, Dr. Virginia Beard, at [email protected]. Max J. Skidmore Editor-in-Chief University of Missouri-Kansas City