Abstract

Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences (SLJSS) publishes social science articles on topics relevant to Sri Lanka in particular and South Asia in general. The journal also has a website at http://www.nsf.gov.lk/.

Highlights

  • The challenges for social sciences in the post-COVID world order are both methodological and theoretical

  • Social science research will be seriously affected by ethical and logistic difficulties presented by the novel corona virus, its responses and impacts

  • Social science research heavily depends on direct interpersonal contacts between the researcher(s) and community members where rapport building is a prerequisite and long conversations, revisits and cross checking are essential part of the research process

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Summary

The challenges

The challenges for social sciences in the post-COVID world order are both methodological and theoretical. They call for a radical change in our current mode of operation as well as the way we conceptualise the society we live in and the Anthropocene we have been part of. Let us start with the more immediate methodological dilemmas

Methodological challenges
Analytical challenges

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